The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) has successfully conducted the IBPS SO Prelims Exam 2025 in the 1st shift on 30th August 2025. Aspirants who appeared for the exam are eager to know the overall exam review, difficulty level, and number of good attempts to evaluate their performance. In this article, we have shared a detailed IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 for Shift 1 along with section-wise analysis.
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 Shift 1, 30 August 2025
This year, IBPS is conducting the IBPS SO 2025 Exam for 1007 Specialist Officer vacancies in Legal, Agriculture, Marketing, IT, HR, and Rajbhasha streams. The first stage of recruitment is the Prelims exam, which is only qualifying in nature.
The IBPS SO Prelims Exam 2025 was conducted smoothly across various exam centres. As per student feedback, the paper was moderate in difficulty level with a balanced mix of easy, moderate, and a few tricky questions.
| IBPS SO Prelims Exam Pattern 2025 | |||
| Section | No. of Questions | Total Marks | Duration |
| Reasoning | 50 | 50 | 40 minutes |
| English Language | 50 | 25 | 40 minutes |
| General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry | 50 | 50 | 40 minutes |
| Total | 150 | 125 | 120 minutes |
IBPS SO Prelims Exam 1st Shift Difficulty Level
According to the feedback received, the overall difficulty level of the exam was moderate and the section-wise difficulty was:
- Reasoning Section was Moderate Level
- English Language was Easy to Moderate Level
- General Awareness/Quantitative Aptitude was Moderate Level
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025: Good Attempts
The number of good attempts gives candidates an idea of a safe score range. Based on today’s paper, the overall good attempts are as follows:
| Section | Good Attempts |
| Reasoning | 26-28 |
| English Language | 29-31 |
| General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry | 25-27 |
| Total | 80-86 |
IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025: Section-wise Analysis
The IBPS SO Prelims Exam Analysis 2025 (Shift 1) gives a clear picture of how each section was structured and the type of questions asked. As discussed above, there are three sections in the Prelims exam, such as Reasoning, English Language, and General Awareness with Special Reference to Banking Industry. We have updated the section-wise questions asked in the exam here.
Sequence of Exam: English → Reasoning → Quant/GA
Questions Asked in the English Section
The English section was doable and the difficulty level was easy to moderate. Following topis and respective number of questions were asked in the exam:
2 RC: Lake (Elements) and Online Gaming
| Topics | Questions |
| Reading Comprehension | 16 to 20 (8-10 each RC) |
| Cloze test | 6 |
| Word Usage (Whole) | 2 |
| Error Detection | 5 |
| Word Rearrangement | 4-5 |
| Word Swap | 4-5 |
| Replacement | 3-4 |
| Miscellaneous | 2-8 |
Questions Asked in Quantitative Aptitude
In the Quantitative Aptitude section, questions were mainly asked from DI, Approximation, Data sufficiency and arithmetic. The overall difficulty level was moderate whereas the arithmetic section was easy to moderate.
- DI (Tabular, Pie Chart, and Line Graph)- 6 Qs each
| Name of the Topics | Number of Questions |
|---|---|
| Approximation | 5 |
| Wrong Number Series | 06 |
| Quadratic Equation | 06 |
| Pie Chart Data Interpretation | 18 |
| Caselet DI | 06 |
| Data Sufficiency | 03 |
| Arithmetic | 11 |
Questions Asked in Reasoning Section
| Topics |
No. of Questions
|
| Input-Output | 5 |
| Direction | 4 |
| Assumption | 3 |
| Alphanumeric | 3 |
| Coding Decoding (Moderate Level) | 2 |
| Blood Relation | 5 |
| Inequality | 5 |
| Critical Reasoning | 4-5 |
| Data Sufficiency | 4-5 |
Questions Asked in General Awareness
- Amazon River
- Nobel Prize 2024
- Constitution Replaced what
- Ek Pedh Ma ke Naam
- Kargil Vijay Divas
- Mountain Range that separates Asia and Europe
- Elections- Bihar
- IRDAI Chairman
- SDG- 99th Rannk
- Exercise Shakti
- SCO Summit
- Heritage Site – Maratha
- NISAR Satellite
- BIRAC Full Form
- MISHTI Scheme
- Biofuel Alliance
- Khelo India Women
- Purple Cap IPL
- Genome Sequencing of Tribal
- Monetary Policy
- Chemical Industry
- Official Valid Document
- G20- Theme
- 71st National Filmfare Award
- STRIPES
- Books and Authors – SN Roy
- Booker Award
Banking Awareness
- Sovereign Gold Bond issued by
- UPI Lite Limit per day
- RBI Rate
- Federal Bank MD CEO
- Standing Liquidity Ratio
- Fintech Repository
- OVD’s Acceptable by Banks
- NRE – Tenure related
- Regulated Platform by RBI
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