The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) is conducting the IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam 2026 (CRP CSA XVI) on 10th and 11th October 2026. This year, total vacancies to be filled through this examination are 11663. Those who appear and qualify in Prelims will be called for the Mains exam.
The Prelims exam is being conducted in multiple shifts, and 1st shift of 10th October 2026 is now. Through feedback received from students who appeared for the exam, we have discussed the IBPS Clerk Today’s Exam Analysis here.
IBPS Clerk Prelims Exam Analysis 2026 Shift 1
The first shift of IBPS Clerk Prelims runs from 9 to 10 am, and the duration of the exam is 60 minutes. It consists of 3 sections, namely Reasoning, English, and Quantitative Aptitude, and each section has 20 minutes to complete the test. The overall exam difficulty level of Shift 1 was easy to moderate and the section-wise difficulty level is given below.
The sequence of the exam is: English⇒ Quantitative Aptitude⇒ Reasoning
IBPS Clerk Shift 1 Difficulty Level 2026
| Section | Difficulty Level |
| English Language | TBU |
| Numerical Ability | TBU |
| Reasoning Ability | TBU |
| Total | TBU |
IBPS Clerk 1st Shift Good Attempts 2026
| Section | No. of Questions | Good Attempts |
| English Language | 30 | TBU |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | TBU |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | TBU |
| Total | 100 | TBU |
IBPS Clerk Prelims Section-wise Analysis 2026
The Prelims exam consists of 3 section as mentioned in the table below. Number of questions are distributed equally in Reasoning and Quants section, whereas English has only 30 questions. Candidates have to complete the test in 60 minutes but sectional timing is applicable. Check the exam pattern and section-wise analysis below.
IBPS Clerk Exam Structure
| Section | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time |
| English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
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Prelims Shift 1 Reasoning Analysis
| Topic | Number of Questions |
| Floor-based puzzle (7) | 5 Qs |
| Inequalities (Non-comma) | 4 Qs |
| 2 Parallel Rows (Horizontal) (5 on each) | 5 Qs |
| Direction and Distance | 3 Qs |
| Sequence Based (8 person) | 1 Q |
| Chinese Coding | 5 Qs |
| Meaningful word (THIN, HINT) | 1 Q |
| Pair Formation (Letter-based) | 1 Q |
| Digit+Symbol | 5 Q |
| Word based | 1 Q |
| Total | 35 Qs |
Prelims Shift 1 Quantitative Aptitude Analysis
| Topic | Number of Questions |
| Simplification/Approximation | TBU |
| Data Interpretation (Table) | TBU |
| Data Interpretation (Bar) | TBU |
| Arithmetic | TBU |
| Total | 35 |
Prelims Shift 1 English Analysis
| Topic | Number of Questions |
| Reading Comprehension | TBU |
| Phrase Replacement | TBU |
| Fill in the Blanks | TBU |
| Sentence-Based Error | TBU |
| Word swap | TBU |
| Para Jumbles | TBU |
| Total | 30 |
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