IBPS - CLERK - PRELIMS EXAM (First Shift, 26-11-2016) is over and the level of the paper was easy to moderate and pattern of the paper is being given below:
1. English – 30 Questions
| TOPIC | No. of Questions |
| Reading Comprehension (Story On Two Trees) | 10 |
| Cloze Test (Story Based - King and Princess) | 10 |
| Error Detection | 10 |
2. Quantitative Aptitude – 35 Questions
| TOPIC | No. of Questions |
| Simplification | 10 |
| Number Series | 5 |
| Data Interpretation (Bar Graph) | 5 |
| Language Problems (Profit Loss, Average, Boats and Stream, CI/SI, Time and Work, Average, Ratio and Proportion, Percentage, Partnership, Pipe and Cistern etc.) | 15 |
3. Reasoning Ability – 35 Questions
| TOPIC | No. of Questions | |
| Puzzle - (Sitting Arrangement) - Straight Line - 8 Person - North Facing | 5 | |
| Puzzle (Sitting Arrangement) North South - 4 Person Each Line | 5 | |
| Alpha Numberic Series | 5 | |
| Inequality (Simple) | 5 | |
| Alphabetic Grouping (3 Albhabet In Each Group As Number Grouping) | 5 | |
| Puzzle (Center Facing) - 8 Person | 5 | |
| 5 |
