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Topic-wise weightage and difficulty for each stage, so you can see where the marks are before deciding what to study. Analysis is our own; the question papers stay with the conducting bodies that own them.
IBPS PO
Officer-cadre recruitment for public sector banks, run by IBPS in three stages: a screening Preliminary exam, a Main exam and an interview.
- 2025Hard
Main Examination
The mains paper is where the selection is actually decided, because mains and interview marks are the only ones that count towards the final merit list. The four objective sections, their marks and their sectional timings are as published by IBPS. The topic counts are our compilation from candidate reports; IBPS does not release a topic breakdown, and no question text is reproduced here. Note that the mains marking is not one mark per question, so the number of questions and the marks available in a section are different numbers.
155 questions across 4 sections | 6 takeaways
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Preliminary Examination
IBPS conducts the PO preliminary examination across several shifts, and each shift gets a different paper. The section structure, marks and timing below are taken from the official notification and are identical in every shift. The topic-level counts are our own compilation from candidate reports across shifts, so treat them as the typical shape of the paper rather than an exact record of any one sitting. IBPS does not publish a topic-wise breakdown of its papers, and no question text is reproduced anywhere on this page.
100 questions across 3 sections | 6 takeaways
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RRB NTPC
Railway recruitment for clerical, commercial, station master and goods train manager posts, selected through two computer based tests and a post-specific skill test.
How to read a weightage table
Start with the biggest block
If puzzles are sixteen of thirty-five reasoning questions, that one topic decides the section. Time spent there returns several times what a two-question topic returns.
Note what is easy and heavy
A topic that is both high weightage and marked easy is where you should be near perfect. Those are the marks everyone who clears is getting.
Plan what to skip
Knowing in advance which sets are traps is worth as much as knowing how to solve them. With negative marking, a question left blank beats a guess between four options.