There were 200 questions in the paper, which had to be answered in 2 hours and 30 minutes. There were five sections in all – Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, General Awareness, English Language/Hindi Language and Computer Knowledge. Other than the fourth section, where in a candidate had to attempt either the section on English Language or the one on Hindi Language, all the other sections were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. Each question had 5 options. There was negative marking of one-fourth or 0.25 of the marks assigned to that question for all the sections.
Section
Total Ques
Max Marks
Level of Difficulty
Good Attempts
Good Score
Approximate Time Taken (in minutes)
Reasoning
40
50
Easy
35
32 – 38
40
Quantitative Aptitude
40
50
Easy
34
28 – 38
40
General Awareness
40
40
Moderate
32
30
15
English Language/ Hindi Language
40
40
English – Easy,
Hindi – Easy
English – 35,
Hindi – 35
English – 32,
Hindi – 32
English –40,
Hindi – 35
Computer Knowledge
40
20
Easy
35
16
15
Total
200
200
138 – 154
150
Expected Cutoffs – These cannot be given at this stage since there are huge variations in cut-offs among different Gramin banks depending on their state.
