IBPS PO Prelims 2017 Analysis, Review And Questions Asked In Exams – Slot 3 – October 8, 2017

Dear Banking Aspirant,

The first and the second slot of the second day of the IBPS PO preliminary examination 2017 is over and we have the review and analysis of the third slot. As usual, there were changes in certain sections and surprise is eventual to every aspirants writing the exams.

You can check the overall review of the IBPS PO preliminary examination 2017 which happened on 7th October, 2017 and we have updated the review of all the slots in our website.

Reasoning section is the one in which different topics were asked and questions were asked from each topic and you cannot leave any topic from that section. Do remember this in the forthcoming batches.



Also if you wish to check the updated review and questions of the SLOT 1 & 2 of the IBPS PO Preliminary Examination 2017, click the link below to know more.

IBPS PO Prelims 2017 Analysis, Review and Questions asked in Exams – Slot 1 – October 8, 2017

IBPS PO Prelims 2017 Analysis, Review And Questions Asked In Exams – Slot 2 – October 8, 2017


Questions asked in Reasoning section of IBPS PO preliminary examination – 3rd Slot – 8th October, 2017

  1. Consider the word “YOURSELF”, arrange the vowels in alphabetical order from left to right and then consonant letters in alphabetical order from left to right. Now, take the next alphabet for each letter in the changed arrangement. Which letter comes fourth from the right from the last letter.
  2. B is son of A. C is the father of A. C is married to S. T is the only daughter of C and mother of F then how is A related to F?
  3. Akshaya starts from Point A towards west after walked 16m, she takes a right turn walked 14m then takes a right turn walked 18m and finally takes a left turn walked 16m to reach point B. Kavin starts from Point C and walked 30m towards north to reach Point C and takes a left turn walked 16m to reach Point B then what is the direction of Point C with respect to Point A?

Puzzle asked in Reasoning section of IBPS PO preliminary examination – 3rd Slot – 8th October, 2017

  • Eight persons F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M attend seminar on four different months January, April, November and december of the same year. Seminar was conducted on either 15 th or 25 th of the month. G attends the seminar 15 th of the month which has only 30 days. M and J attends the seminar on the same month before G, but not in April. M attends the seminar after J. No one attends the seminar after F. Only one person attends the seminar between M and K. Both H and L attend the seminar on the 15 th of different month. L does not attend the seminar on December. L and I attend the seminar on the same month.

You can also give us your valuable feedback on the exam and the number of questions attended and the overall difficulty level of the exam in the poll. This will be of much help to us to chart down the overall marks of the exams.


Overall Best Attempts: 48 – 52


Reasoning Ability analysis and  review of IBPS PO Prelims 2017 3rd Slot (35 Questions)

Level – Moderate

Best Attempts : 18-23

Seating Arrangement & Puzzle test 20 Questions
I.8 persons attending the seminar on 4 different months
II. 8 persons live in eight different floors. Each of them has different birds.
Seating-5 (8 persons facing inside and outside)
Syllogism Not Asked
Blood Relation 2 Questions
Direction Test 2 Questions
Coding Decoding 5 Questions
Inequalities 5 Questions
Machine Input Output 5 Questions
Alphabet Test 1 Question

Quantitative Aptitude Analysis and review of IBPS PO Prelims 2017 3rd Slot (35 Questions)

Level – Moderate

Best Attempts : 20-25

Data Interpretation

1) Table

2) Pie Chart

 12 Question
Number Series Not Asked
Quadratic Equations 5 Questions
Application Sums 12
Approximation 6

English Language Analysis and Review of IBPS PO Prelims 2017 3rd Slot (30 Questions)

Level – Moderate – Difficult

Best Attempts : 10-15

Reading Comprehension

Based on Technology Impacting School Children in America and Issues with Technology

10  questions
Cloze Test Not asked
Sentence Rearrangement Not asked
Fill in the Blanks

Three options (out of which even all may be correct), choose the one which correctly matches the blanks

 10 questions
Spotting Errors(New Pattern)

1). Three Different Sentences and Apsirants have to find the sentence which is grammatically correct

 10 questions

The analysis and review of the SLOT 2 will be updated in a short while after the exams and we expect your valuable feedback and also help your fellow aspirants with the level of difficulty level of the exam, the number of questions asked from each section and the new pattern questions asked in the exams. Please mention your feedback in the below mentioned ways and it will be useful for other who are attending the exams in the forthcoming batches.

Important NOTE
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Try to attend more than 50 questions in the Exam.


IBPS PO 2016 Preliminary Examination Cutoff Marks

The individual cutoff marks for different sections in the IBPS PO 2016 for various categories are given below

S.No Section Category
  General SC / ST / OBC
1 English Language 7 4.5
2 Reasoning Ability 8.5 5.5
3 Quantitative Aptitude 8.25 5.25

The overall cutoff marks for various categories in the IBPS PO 2015 preliminary examination. This is the Overall cutoff marks which is obtained for the total 100 marks of the examination.

Category General OBC SC ST
Cut Off Marks * 47.5 46.5 40 31.25

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