Hello Aspirants,
EPFO is one of the world’s largest social security organization has conducted the prelims exam for the post of Assistant. The total number of vacancies is 280. The EPFO Assistant 2019 Prelims exam is a qualifying test which has three sections namely Numerical Ability, Reasoning Ability, and English Language.
The overall exam is said to be easy. Smart work & time management will work in the game. All the candidates are requested to do practice in the topics mentioned below.
- Phase –I is qualifying in nature and marks will not be reckoned for final merit.
- For each wrong answer, there will be a negative marking of one-fourth of the mark
assigned to that question. - The candidates will be shortlisted for Phase-II in the ratio of 1:10 i.e. about 10 times
the number of vacancies in each category on the basis of their performance in Phase
– I. - If the examination is held in more than one session, the scores across various
sessions will be equated following standard practice to adjust for slight differences in
the difficulty level of different test batteries used across sessions.
The sequence of the online exam – English, Reasoning Ability and Numerical Ability.
Let’s see today’s exam analysis also.
Exam Pattern – EPFO Assistant 2019 Prelims:
| Sr. No. | Name of Tests (Objective) | No. of Questions | Maximum Marks | Time Duration |
| 1 | Numerical Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 2 | Reasoning Ability | 35 | 35 | 20 minutes |
| 3 | English Language | 30 | 30 | 20 minutes |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
Section-wise Analysis:
Section | Level of Difficulty | Good Attempts | |||
| Shift I | II | III | IV | ||
| Numerical Ability | Easy to Moderate | 22-27 | 21-26 | 22-29 | 24-26 |
| Reasoning Ability | Easy to Moderate | 25-27 | 26-30 | 25-29 | 25-30 |
| English | Easy to Moderate | 22-25 | 20-24 | 22-23 | 24-26 |
| Total | Easy | 69-79 | 67-80 | 69-81 | 73-82 |
Chapter-wise Analysis:
The difficulty level of this section is easy to moderate. The questions are asked from the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| DI | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Arithmetic | 10 | 15 | 10 | 15 |
| Quadratic Equation | 5 | – | 5 | – |
| Missing Number Series | – | 5 | 5 | – |
| Wrong Number Series | 5 | – | – | 5 |
| Data Sufficiency | – | – | – | – |
| Simplification | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Caselet | – | – | – | – |
| Difficulty Level | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate |
This section is very Easy. Questions are asked from the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| Puzzles & Seating arrangements | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| Syllogism | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Inequality | 3 | – | 5 | 5 |
| Blood Relation | – | 3 | – | – |
| Direction | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| Numerical series | – | – | – | – |
| Coding-Decoding | 5 | – | – | – |
| Alpha-Numerical series | – | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Ranking | – | 3 | – | – |
| Miscellaneous | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Difficulty Level | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate |
This section is easy to moderate. Questions are asked from the topics mentioned below.
| Topics | No of Questions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3 | Shift 4 | |
| Sentence Rearrangement | 5 | – | 5 | – |
| Reading Comprehension | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Word Usage | – | 2 | – | – |
| Filler | – | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| Cloze Test | 7 | – | 7 | 5 |
| Sentence Correction | – | 8 | – | 4 |
| Jumbled Sentence | – | 5 | – | – |
| Error Spotting | 8 | – | 6 | 5 |
| Difficulty Level | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate | Easy to Moderate |
Sectional & Overall Attempts by Candidates: (From Exam Centre)
| Candidates | Reasoning | Quant | English | Overall Attempts |
| Shift – 1 | 30 | 26 | 25 | 81 |
| Shift – 2 | 33 | 25 | 24 | 82 |
| Shift – 3 | 34 | 25 | 25 | 84 |
| Shift – 4 | 30 | 22 | 28 | 80 |
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