For those who are serious about clearing RRB Clerk 2023 examination must hve started preparing by now. According to the IBPS Calendar this year the RRB Clerk exam is scheduled for 5th August 2023. Though, aspirants have more than 2 months to prepare, but starting a little early will definitely give you an edge above other aspirants. In this article today we are here to help the candidates preparing for IBPS RRB Office Assistant prelims 2023 by telling them the most asked or you can say important topics in RRB Clerk which is based on the previous year’s papers. Its important that the candidates should not ignore these topics for RRB Clerk 2023. As we always say that aspirants must practice previous year’s papers in order to get an idea as what kind of questions have been asked in the past. This article is all about the this as to let know the candidates as what kind of questions you can expect in this year’s RRB Clerk Prelims exam. Candidates can even attempt RRB Clerk free mock test which is live there on our platform. So, here we are with the topics you must prepare for RRB Clerk prelims 2023.
Before, we begin with the complete analysis of past year’s paper and the important topics that have come earlier in the exam let’s first take a closer look at the RRB Clerk Prelims exam pattern. Knowing the exam pattern and syllabus thoroughly is a must.
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| S.no | Section | No. of Questions | Max Marks |
| 1 | Reasoning | 40 | 40 |
| 2 | Numerical Ability | 40 | 40 |
| Total | 80/duration:45 mins | 80 |
As far as the RRB Clerk exam dates are concerned, mentioned below is the complete table for important event dates.
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| Preliminary Examination | Office Assistants and Officer Scale I:05.08.2023, 06.08.2023, 12.08.2023, 13.08.2023 and19.08.2023. |
| Single Examination | Officers Scale II&III : 10.09.2023 |
| Main Examination | Officer Scale I: 10.09.2023Office Assistants : 16.09.2023 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
Quantitative Aptitude is one of the scoring sections which can fetch you a significant score, however it can only be done via practice. There are few topics which are always asked and carry a good weightage. As you can see in the above analysis topics like Data Interpretation, Number Series, Arithmetic Word Problems and Simplification/Approximation carried a significant weightage.
| 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 |
Reasoning ability is another section which comprises of 40 marks. As we can see that Puzzles and Seating Arrangement is one of the most important topic that can help the candidates to score good marks. Mentioning the table below of important reasoning topics that has been majorly asked in the previous year’s exams.
| 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:
With this the blog comes to an end. Don’t Ignore these Topics for RRB Clerk 2023 – Based on Previous Year’s Paper. Attempt RRB Clerk prelims free mock test and know your weak areas.
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