

The IBPS Clerk Mains Exam 2025 is conducted in a single shift on November 29, 2025, across the country. As the exam concluded, the official and student-based exam review is updated here to help candidates understand the difficulty level, good attempts, questions asked, and section-wise performance expectations.
Every year, lakhs of aspirants appear for the exam, and a detailed analysis helps future candidates plan their preparation strategy more effectively.
IBPS Clerk 2025 Mains Exam Analysis is rated Moderate, with some sections posing slightly more challenges than others.
Today, the IBPS Clerk Exam for the mains phase is held, and a large number of banking aspirants took the IBPS Clerk Mains exam for Clerical Cadre vacancies. There are 4 sections in the IBPS Clerk Mains Examination: Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude and General/ Financial Awareness. In each section, there are multiple-choice questions with a total of 155 questions to be attempted in 120 minutes.
According to the feedback from the candidates, the difficulty level of the exam is moderate.
The team of PW interacted with the candidates who had their mains exam, and according to the feedback received, the level of the paper was evaluated to be Moderate. The given table provides in-depth IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2025 29 November Shift 1 for each of the sections asked, as well as overall.
| IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2025 Good Attempts | ||
| Sections | No of questions | Good Attempts |
| Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 40 | |
| English Language | 40 | |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | |
| General/ Financial Awareness | 40 | |
| Overall Attempts | 155 | |
These figures help predict what could be considered a safe attempt range for the IBPS Clerk Mains 2025.
The candidate who has appeared in the IBPS Clerk Mains Exam shift can check the difficulty level section-wise which has been filled as analysed by our faculty. There were 4 sections in the IBPS Office Assistant mains Exam and we have provided the section-wise difficulty level.
| IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2025 Difficulty Level | |
| Sections | Difficulty Level |
| Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | |
| English Language | |
| Quantitative Aptitude | |
| General/ Financial Awareness | |
| Total | |
Through our IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 29 November 2025, you can go through the section-wise review
The overall difficulty of this section, as reviewed by the candidates, was somewhat Moderate.
| IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2025 Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | |
| Topics | No of Questions |
| Puzzles & Seating Arrangement | |
| Logical/Critical Reasoning | |
| Syllogism | |
| Data Sufficiency (2 statement based) | |
| Coded Direction | |
| Multiple Series (with condition) | |
| Machine Input Output (Word & number based) | |
| Word Based (Five words-Meaningful word) | |
| Alphanumeric Series | |
| Resultant Based | |
| Word Based | |
| Box Based | |
| Day Based | |
| Total | 40 |
Arithmetic questions are asked from Boat & Stream, Train, Partnership, Time & Work, and Simple Interest. There were sets of Data Interpretation (DI) questions asked in the IBPS Clerk Mains Exam 2025, which are expected to be of a Moderate level.
| IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2025 Quantitative Aptitude | |
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| Quadratic Equation | |
| Number Series | |
| Data Interpretation | |
| Approximation | |
| `Caselet | |
| Data Sufficiency | |
| Arithmetic | |
| Total | 35 |
The English language section of the IBPS Clerk exam is expected to be of Moderate difficulty, and given below is the distribution of questions based on the questions asked in the IBPS Clerk Mains Exam 2025 paper.
| IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Analysis 2025 English Language | |
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| Reading Comprehension (Nuclear) | |
| Reading Comprehension (Geography) | |
| Error Detection | |
| Idiom | |
| Inference Based | |
| Cloze Test (Word Replacement) | |
| Sentence Arrangement | |
| Total | 40 |
This section plays a key role in raising final scores.
Expected 2025 pattern: Moderate and scoring
Below is the official IBPS Clerk Mains pattern that consists of 4 sections:
| IBPS Clerk Mains Exam Pattern 2025 | ||||
| S.No. | Name of Tests (Objective) | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Duration |
| 1 | Reasoning Ability & Computer Aptitude | 40 | 60 | 35 minutes |
| 2 | English Language | 40 | 40 | 35 minutes |
| 3 | Quantitative Aptitude | 35 | 50 | 30 minutes |
| 4 | General/ Financial Awareness | 40 | 50 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 155 | 200 | 120 minutes | |