India · Institute of Banking Personnel Selection · civil-service
Prelims: 100 questions, 125 marks, 80 minutes. Mains: 150 questions, 200 marks, 125 minutes. Only Professional Knowledge counts for merit. Mains : interview = 80 : 20.
A big change from 2025: Professional Knowledge now appears in the prelims too, and only PK marks decide merit. Prelims Aug 2026, mains Nov 2026, allotment Jan 2027. Coaching sites describing a 225-mark mains with a descriptive paper conflict with the official PDF; follow the IBPS PDF. 190 AFO vacancies (secondary). Patterns for SPL-X to XIV (2020-24) were not individually verified.
Official source: https://www.ibps.in/wp-content/uploads/Detailed-Notification-CRP-SPL-XVI_Final_V1_30.06.2026.pdf
Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.
1. Five farms in a village report wheat yields of 42, 38, 45, 40 and 35 quintals per hectare. What is the mean yield?
A. 40 q/ha
Mean = (42 + 38 + 45 + 40 + 35) / 5 = 200 / 5 = 40 q/ha. 38 is a data value near the centre but is not the mean; 42 would come from dropping the lowest value.
Business Statistics & Quantitative Methods · Measures of central tendency
2. A branch manager rewrites a field officer's report on overdue farm loans so that the figures look better before it goes to the regional office. This is an example of
B. filtering, a barrier common in upward communication
Filtering is the deliberate manipulation of information so that it appears more favourable to the receiver, and it is typical of upward communication through layers of hierarchy. The grapevine is informal communication; overload and selective perception are receiver-side barriers, whereas here the sender is altering the message.
Business Communication · The communication process and its barriers
3. Into how many agro-climatic regions did the Planning Commission of India divide the country for planning purposes?
D. 15
The Planning Commission delineated 15 agro-climatic regions in the late 1980s. Twenty is the number of agro-ecological regions of NBSS&LUP, and about 127 is the number of agro-climatic zones under ICAR's National Agricultural Research Project.
Agriculture & Food Systems (bridge) · Importance of agriculture in the national economy
4. A block where farmers sell most of their paddy to village traders immediately after harvest at low prices, and buy back grain later at higher prices, most clearly shows:
C. Weak marketing, storage and credit, leading to distress sales
Selling immediately at harvest and buying back later is the classic sign of distress sale driven by cash needs, lack of storage and lack of credit. It says nothing about high efficiency, and futures trading is not involved.
Agricultural Marketing & Price Analysis · Marketing in a developing economy
5. A district grows 50,000 ha of wheat. The recommended seed rate is 100 kg/ha and the seed replacement rate is 35 per cent. What is the market for purchased wheat seed?
C. 1,750 tonnes
Seed demand = area × seed rate × SRR = 50,000 × 100 × 0.35 = 1,750,000 kg = 1,750 t. Leaving out the SRR gives 5,000 t, which assumes every farmer buys fresh seed; writing the kilogram figure as tonnes is a unit slip. 175 t misplaces the decimal in the SRR (0.035 instead of 0.35).
Management of Agricultural Input Marketing · Nature of demand for agricultural inputs
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