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IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025, 30 August Shift 1 Exam Review

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:

  1. Online Gaming- 8 to 10 questions (Fillers, Synonyms, Antonyms)
  2. 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-

  1. Floor-Based Puzzle- 5 questions
  2. Parallel Row Seating Arrangement- 5 questions
  3. Square Seating Arrangement (Bidirectional)- 5 questions
  4. 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

 

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