Those who are serious about passing the RRB Clerk 2023 exam must have begun preparing at this point. The RRB Clerk test is slated for August 5, 2023, per the IBPS Calendar for this year. Although candidates have more than 1.5 months to prepare, getting a head start on the competition will undoubtedly benefit you.
The purpose of this article is to assist candidates preparing for the IBPS RRB Office Assistant preliminary examination in 2023 by outlining the most often asked—or, you may say, significant—questions in RRB Clerk, which are based on last year’s examinations. The applicants for RRB Clerk 2023 should pay close attention to these themes.
The purpose of this post is to inform applicants of the types of questions to be expected in the RRB Clerk Prelims exam this year. On our website, candidates can even take a free, live sample test for the RRB Clerk position. So, here are the topics for RRB Clerk prelims 2023 that you need to study.
Let’s first take a closer look at the RRB Clerk Prelims test pattern before we start with a thorough analysis of the previous year’s paper and the crucial themes that came earlier in the exam. A good understanding of the exam format and syllabus is essential.
| Topics | Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 |
| Simplification | 10 -12 | 10 – 12 | 11-13 | 14-15 |
| Tabular Data Interpretation | 5 (Slightly lengthy) | 5 | 12(All DI combined) | 10(All DI combined) |
| Caselet DI | – | – | – | |
| Graph DI | 5 | 5 | ||
| Wrong Number Series (Decimal, Square, Difference) | 5 | – | – | |
| Missing Number Series | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| Arithmetic (Pipe & Cistern, Profit & Loss, SI, Mensuration, Averages, Percentage, Partnership, Mixture & Alligation) | 12 – 13 | 12 – 13 | 12-13 | 10 |
| Overall | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Topics | Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 |
| Inequality | 4 | 4 -5 | 4-5 | 3-4 |
| Order & Ranking | ||||
| Puzzle | 5 (Month and date) 5 (Day based) 5 (Parallel rows) | 5 (Circular SA – 8 people facing inside) 5 (2 flat and 3 floors) 5 (Uncertain linear SA – 25 people) | 18-20 | 10 |
| Blood relations | 3 | – | 3-4 | |
| Coding decoding | 4 (Chinese) | |||
| Series | 4 (Digit based) | 3 (Number based) | 3 | 6 |
| Mixed series | ||||
| Syllogism | 4 | 5 | 4-5 | 4-5 |
| Alphanumeric Series | 5 | |||
| Direction and Distance | 3 | 3 | 3-5 | – |
| Word pair and formation | 1 (ARCHIEVE) | 2 (Chemical) | ||
| Comparison based | ||||
| Number Forward/Backwards | 5-6 | 1-2 | ||
| Overall | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Topic | No. of Questions |
| Puzzles Seating Arrangement (Circular – 7 persons – facing the centre) Seating Arrangement (Parallel – 10 persons – 5 North and 5 South Facing ) Floor Based Puzzle (7 Persons and 7 Floors) Unknown number Seating Arrangement (Linear Based) | 20 |
| Direction Sense Test | 3 |
| Inequalities | 4 |
| Syllogisms | 4 |
| Alphabet-Numbers based series | 5 |
| Order and Ranking | 2 |
| Miscellaneous | 2 |
| Total | 40 |
| Topic | No. of Questions |
| Data Interpretation Bar Graph Table | 10 |
| Number Series (Wrong) | 5 |
| Equations Comparison (Quadratic) | 5 |
| Simplification | 10 |
| Word Problems (Averages, Profit and Loss, Compound Interest, Time and Work, Partnership etc.) | 10 |
| Total | 40 |
Reasoning
| Topic | No. of Questions |
| Puzzles Seating Arrangement (Square – 8 persons – 4 corner facing outside; 4 middle facing inside) Seating Arrangement (Parallel – 10 persons – 5 North and 5 South Facing ) Floor Based Puzzle (8 Persons and 8 Floors) Unknown number Seating Arrangement (Linear Based) | 20 |
| Blood Relations | 3 |
| Inequalities | 5 |
| Syllogisms | 5 |
| Alphabet based series | 5 |
| Miscellaneous | 2 |
| Total | 40 |
Quantitative Aptitude
| Topic | No. of Questions |
| Data Interpretation Bar Graph Table Caselet | 13 |
| Number Series (Wrong) | 5 |
| Equations Comparison (Quadratic) | 3 |
| Simplification | 11 |
| Word Problems (Profit and Loss, Compound Interest, Time and Work, Partnership etc.) | 8 |
| Total | 40 |
| Topic | No. of Questions |
| Coding-decoding | 5 |
| Box based puzzle | 6 |
| Month based puzzle | 5 |
| Linear arrangement (North-South) | 6 |
| Ranking based puzzle | 3 |
| Blood relation | 1 |
| Number related | 1 |
| Alphabet related | 1 |
| Direction related | 4 |
| Numbers based Series | 5 |
| Syllogism | 3 |
| Total | 40 |
| Topic | No. of Questions |
| Simplification | 12 |
| Approximation | 5 |
| Data Interpretation 1st set of 5 questions (Tabular DI based on data of subjects, marks and students) (easy); 2nd set also had 5 questions (Caselet – the parameters were employees, % of people and different departments) | 10 |
| Number Series | 5 |
| Word Problems (Questions from Time and Work, Profit and Loss, Ages, Number System, Boats, Geometry) | 8 |
| Total | 40 |
| Subject | Good Attempts 2019 | Good Attempts 2018 |
| Reasoning Ability | 35-38 | 33-36 |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 32-36 | 32-35 |
| Total | 71-75 | 65-69 |
| Topics | No. of Questions (2019) | No. of Questions (2018) |
| Data Interpretation | 13 | 10 |
| Number Series | 5 | 5 |
| Arithmetic Word Problems | 8 | 8 |
| Simplification/Approximation | 11 | 17 |
| Topics | No. of Questions (2019) | No. of Questions (2018) |
| Syllogism | 5 | 5 |
| Puzzles & Seating Arrangement | 20 | 20 |
| Direction Sense | 3 | 4 |
| Coding Decoding | – | 5 |
| Blood Relation | 3 | 1 |
| Alphabetical Series | 5 | 1 |
These are some of the important topics that are to be must prepared by the candidates preparing for RRB Clerk Prelims 2020. If we specifically talk about puzzles and seating arrangements in the past year’s these are the types of puzzles that were asked:
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