The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is conducting the IBPS SO exam on a single day, 30th August 2025, in two shifts. Thousands of candidates have appeared in the 1st shift and shared their feedback with the faculty and discussed that the exam was of “Moderate” Level. Thousands are going to appear for the exam in the next shifts should check out the IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 to know the difficulty level and good attempts for this shift of the exam.
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025
In the prelims exam for IBPS SO 2025, there are three subjects, namely English Language, Reasoning Ability, and Quantitative Aptitude/ General Awareness. Each subject consists of 50 questions in total of 150 questions. We are going to provide you with the detailed IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 for both shifts here. Candidates can check the good attempts, difficulty level, and questions asked for all subjects of the IBPS SO Prelims Exam.
Go through the detailed and accurate IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis Shift 1 of 30th August 2025 from the article.
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 Difficulty Level
Overall difficulty level of exam held on 30th August 2025 was “Moderate” with Reasoning Ability, and Quantitative Aptitude/ General Awareness of Moderate level and English section of Easy to Moderate level. As per the reviews of the candidates who appeared in the exam, the difficulty level of the IBPS SO 2025 Prelims Exam has been updated here.
| Sections | Difficulty Level |
| English Language | Easy to Moderate |
| Reasoning Ability | Moderate |
| Quantitative Aptitude/ General Awareness | Moderate |
| Overall | Moderate |
IBPS SO Exam Analysis 2025 Good Attempts
Our experts have calculated the overall good attempts & section-wise good attempts and the same has been updated here after the complete IBPS SO Prelims Today Exam Analysis 2025. The higher the number of good attempts, the higher the cut-off goes.
| Sections | No. of Questions | Good Attempts |
| English Language | 50 | 29-31 |
| Reasoning Ability | 50 | 26-28 |
| Quantitative Aptitude/ General Awareness | 50 | 25-27 |
| Total | 100 | 80-86 |
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 Sectional Review
Go through the complete IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis conducted for Shift-1 of 30th August 2025. As per the student’s review, each section was of Moderate Level, and a few questions were time-consuming. Have a look at each section of the IBPS SO Exam Analysis and know what was asked in the IBPS SO Exam.
IBPS SO Exam Analysis 2025- English Language
The questions from the English section were of Easy to Moderate level. There were 2 sets of Reading Comprehensions with a total of 16 to 20 questions.
Topics of Reading Comprehension:
- Online Gaming- 8 to 10 questions (Fillers, Synonyms, Antonyms)
- Lakes- 8 to 10 questions (Synonyms)
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| Reading Comprehension | 16 to 20 |
| Cloze Test | 06 |
| Word Usafe | 03 |
| Error Detection | 05 |
| Rearrangement | 04 to 05 |
| Swap the word | 04 to 05 |
| Replacement | 03 to 04 |
| Miscellaneous | 02 to 08 |
| Total | 50 |
IBPS SO Exam Analysis 2025- Quantitative Aptitude
The questions from the Arithmetic section were from Boat & Stream, Age, Profit & Loss, CI, Mixture & Alligation, Speed, Distance & Time, Mensuration, Ratio & Proportion, Etc.
| Name of the topics | Number of questions |
| Wrong Number Series | 06 |
| Quadratic Equation | |
| Pie Chart Data Interpretation | 06 |
| Tabular Data Interpretation | 06 |
| Line Graph Data Interpretation | 06 |
| Caselet DI | 06 |
| Data Sufficiency | 03 |
| Arithmetic | 11 |
| Total | 50 |
IBPS SO Exam Analysis 2025- Reasoning Ability
The level of reasoning in Shift-1 of IBPS SO Prelims was Moderate. There were questions asked from Puzzle and Seating Arrangement Questions which were lengthy and time-consuming. The questions of Logical Reasoning were difficult and calculative.
Puzzles and Seating Arrangements asked-
- Floor-Based Puzzle- 5 questions
- Parallel Row Seating Arrangement- 5 questions
- Square Seating Arrangement (Bidirectional)- 5 questions
- Puzzle + variable- 5 questions
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| Puzzles and Seating Arrangements | 20 |
| Input-Output | 05 |
| Direction | 03-04 |
| Assumption | 03 |
| Alphanumeric | 03 |
| Coding Decoding | 01 |
| Blood Relation | 05 |
| Inequality | 05 |
| Data Sufficiency | 04 |
| Total | 50 |
| Related Links | |
| IBPS SO Syllabus & Exam Pattern | IBPS SO Previous Year Cut-Off |
| IBPS Calendar 2025 | Upcoming Bank Exams 2025 |


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