IBPS PO Prelims Mock Test Day 12: Free 100 Questions with Answers

Day 12 of the IBPS PO countdown: twelve days out, one more full paper, the taper holding discipline over adrenaline. The format stays constant – 100 questions, three 20-minute windows, 0.25 penalty – because the curve needs comparable data, and comparable data needs an unchanged instrument. Therefore, sit it at exam timing, score by window, and let the five-paper line speak.

Contents: instructions, the full paper with inline answers, score bands and the taper-week protocol.

Instructions

• 100 questions, 100 marks; one mark per correct answer.
• Windows: English 20, Quant 20, Reasoning 20 minutes.
• Penalty: 0.25 per wrong answer; blanks cost nothing.
• Targets: 22 English, 20 Quant, 22 Reasoning; elite 75-plus.

Section A: English – 30 Questions

Q1-8: Spot the Error

1. The cabinet have approved the policy – institutional singular applies, therefore “has approved”, and the answer is the verb.
2. However, between you and I, the paper was fair – “between you and me” takes the objective case, and the answer is the pronoun.
3. He is abler than any students in class – compare with “any other student”, and the answer is the comparison frame.
4. Finally, the news are grim today – “news” stays singular, and the answer is the verb.
5. She insisted on go alone – gerunds follow prepositions, therefore “on going”, and the answer is the verb form.
6. Therefore, one should do his duty – “one’s duty” keeps the frame consistent, and the answer is the pronoun.
7. The both options were viable – “both options” without “the”, and the answer is the determiner.
8. However, he returned back from leave – “returned” carries the back, and the answer is the redundancy.

Q9-13: Fill in the Blank

9. The scheme ___ 2.4 crore farmers – (a) covers (b) covering (c) cover (d) is cover. The answer is (a).
10. Yields are expected to ___ after the rains – (a) recover (b) recovering (c) recovers (d) recovered. The answer is (a).
11. The court ___ the levy as excessive – (a) quashed (b) quashing (c) quashes (d) quash. The answer is (a).
12. Cities must ___ for cloudbursts – (a) plan (b) planning (c) plans (d) planned. The answer is (a).
13. The panel ___ its report next week – (a) tables (b) tabling (c) tabled (d) table. The answer is (a).

Q14-21: Reading Comprehension

Passage: The skill tax on informal work is India’s quietest crisis: millions learn on the job what no certificate records, and the economy cannot price what it cannot read. Skill registries and recognition-of-prior-learning schemes try to write down what experience already knows, converting street-taught competence into portable proof. However, the passage warns, certification without employer trust merely stamps paper nobody buys, and the trust must be built industry by industry, apprenticeship by apprenticeship.

14. The central idea: informal skills need readable proof that employers trust, and the answer is that claim.
15. Finally, “The economy cannot price what it cannot read” means: unmeasured skill goes unpaid, and the answer is the meaning.
16. The schemes’ mechanism: documenting prior learning, and the answer is the mechanism.
17. Therefore, the warned failure mode: certification without employer trust, and the answer is the warning.
18. “Industry by industry” suggests: trust-building is granular, not decree-driven, and the answer is the implication.
19. However, the tone: analytical with a policy edge, and the answer is the tone.
20. A suitable title: Reading What Experience Knows, and the answer is the title.
21. Finally, “Portable proof” refers to: credentials that travel across employers, and the answer is the meaning.

Q22-30: Idioms, Vocabulary, Misc

22. To let the cat out of the bag: to reveal a secret, and the answer is the meaning.
23. Therefore, once bitten, twice shy: caution from one bad experience, and the answer is the meaning.
24. To add fuel to the fire: to worsen a conflict, and the answer is the meaning.
25. However, a white elephant: a costly burden, and the answer is the meaning.
26. Antonym of “verbose”: concise, and the answer is concise.
27. Finally, synonym of “clandestine”: secret, and the answer is secret.
28. Antonym of “deteriorate”: improve, and the answer is improve.
29. Therefore, synonym of “ubiquitous”: omnipresent, and the answer is omnipresent.
30. Correctly spelt: (a) prerequisite (b) prerequisit (c) pre-requisitee (d) prerequasite. The answer is (a).

Section B: Quant – 35 Questions

Q31-38: Simplification

31. 176 divided by 11, times 9: the answer is 144.
32. However, 65 percent of 460: the answer is 299.
33. Square root of 1,936: the answer is 44.
34. Finally, 32 percent of 550: the answer is 176.
35. Four-sevenths of 1,099: the answer is 628.
36. Therefore, 150 times 56, divided by 80: the answer is 105.
37. 7.2 times 12.5: the answer is 90.
38. However, 75 divided by 0.15: the answer is 500.

Q39-43: Number Series

39. 9, 19, 39, 79, ? – double and add one: the answer is 159.
40. Finally, 6, 8, 12, 18, 26, ? – add 2, 4, 6, 8, 10: the answer is 36.
41. 5, 15, 60, 300, ? – multiply by 3, 4, 5, 6: the answer is 1,800.
42. Therefore, 7, 10, 16, 28, 52, ? – double and subtract four: the answer is 100.
43. 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, ? – squares: the answer is 49.

Q44-46: Quadratic Comparison

44. However, x-squared minus 12x plus 35; y-squared minus 11y plus 30 – roots 5,7 against 5,6: the answer is x greater than or equal to y.
45. x-squared is 225; y-cubed is 125 – x is 15 or minus 15, y is 5: the answer is relationship cannot be established.
46. Finally, x-squared minus 9x plus 20; y-squared minus 10y plus 24 – roots 4,5 against 4,6: the answer is x less than or equal to y.

Q47-52: Data Interpretation

Table: daily collections, thousand rupees. Monday 180, Tuesday 220, Wednesday 270, Thursday 220, Friday 360.

47. Average daily collections: the answer is 250 – 1,250 over five days.
48. Therefore, friday exceeds Monday by: the answer is 100 percent.
49. Wednesday to Thursday ratio: the answer is 27 is to 22.
50. However, the equal pair: the answer is Tuesday and Thursday.
51. Weekly total: the answer is 1,250 thousand rupees.
52. Finally, wednesday’s share: the answer is 27 in 125.

Q53-65: Arithmetic

53. Compound interest on 25,000 rupees at 8 percent for 2 years: the answer is 4,160 rupees.
54. Ratio 11:7 summing to 270: the larger is the answer, 165.
55. Therefore, average of ten numbers is 17; removing 18 leaves: the answer is 16.9 – 152 over nine… recompute: 170 minus 18 is 152, over nine is 16.9 – the answer is 16.9.
56. Cost 800, marked up 15 percent, 10 percent discount: the profit percent is the answer, 3.5 – sells at 828.
57. Bus at 60 kmph for 3 hours 30 minutes: the answer is 210 km.
58. However, a in 24 days, B in 8: together the answer is 6 days.
59. Pipe fills 10 hours, leak empties 30: the answer is 15 hours.
60. Grandmother three-and-a-half times granddaughter, gap 45: the granddaughter is the answer, 18.
61. Finally, a number increased 10 percent gives 187: the answer is 170.
62. 180-metre train at 81 kmph crosses a 195-metre platform: the answer is 16.7 seconds – 375 metres at 22.5 m/s.
63. 90-litre mix at 2:1; adding 10 litres water: the answer is 12 is to 7 – milk 60 stays, water 40 plus 10 is 50… recompute: 60 to 50 is 6 to 5 – voided for drift; the clean version: a 60-litre mix at 2:1 gives milk 40, water 20; add 5 water for 40 to 25, i.e. 8 is to 5.
64. Boat 11 in still water, stream 3: 91 km downstream takes the answer, 6.5 hours.
65. A sum doubles in 16 years under simple interest: the rate is the answer, 6.25 percent.

Section C: Reasoning – 35 Questions

Q66-70: Syllogism

66. Therefore, all bridges are structures; some structures sway – the answer is no definite conclusion about bridges.
67. Some taxis are electric; all electric vehicles charge at night here – the answer is some taxis charge at night follows.
68. However, no exam allows guides; all guides are printed – the answer is no conclusion linking exams to printing.
69. All farmers work land; some land workers irrigate – the answer is no conclusion links farmers to irrigation.
70. Finally, some mills are solar; all solar mills earn credits – the answer is some mills earn credits follows.

Q71-73: Inequality

71. R greater than S; S greater than or equal to T – the answer is R greater than T.
72. Therefore, g less than H; H equal to I – the answer is G less than I.
73. M greater than N; O greater than M – the answer is O greater than N.

Q74-77: Coding-Decoding

74. However, if PLANT becomes QMBOU, GRAIN becomes: the answer is HSBJO – forward one.
75. If NIGHT becomes OJHIU, the logic is: the answer is forward one.
76. Finally, if SPEED becomes RODDC, the logic is: the answer is back one.
77. If MOON becomes NPPO, MARS becomes: the answer is NBST.

Q78-80: Series

78. Therefore, d, G, J, ? – the answer is M, skipping two.
79. 3, 6, 12, 21, 33, ? – add 3, 6, 9, 12, 15: the answer is 48.
80. However, 6, 12, 24, 48, ? – the answer is 96, doubling.

Q81-90: Puzzle Set

Five colleagues K, L, M, N, O park on five levels, ground to top. K parks on the ground. M parks immediately above L. N parks between M and O. Therefore the stack reads K, L, M, N, O from the ground.

81. The top level holds: the answer is O.
82. Finally, immediately above L parks: the answer is M.
83. Levels between K and N: the answer is two.
84. Therefore, between L and O parks: the answer is M then N.
85. If K and O swap, the top holds: the answer is K.
86. However, n’s level from the ground: the answer is fourth.
87. The middle level holds: the answer is M.
88. Finally, adjacent pair: the answer is L and M.
89. Levels above N: the answer is one.
90. Therefore, immediate neighbours of N: the answer is M and O.

Q91-100: Miscellaneous

91. In a row of seventy-two, E is twenty-sixth from the left: from the right, the answer is forty-seventh.
92. However, “He is my sister’s only child’s father” said a man… recompute: sister’s only child, its father is the sister’s husband – the answer is his brother-in-law.
93. X is Y’s uncle; Y is Z’s daughter: X is Z’s the answer, brother-in-law or brother.
94. Facing south-west, a left turn faces: the answer is south-east.
95. Walk 8 km east then 15 km north: displacement is the answer, 17 km.
96. Finally, odd one: 8, 27, 64, 100, 125 – the answer is 100, not a perfect cube.
97. Odd one: rose, marigold, oak, jasmine – the answer is oak, a tree.
98. Therefore, alphabet position of V: the answer is twenty-two.
99. Letters between F and M inclusive: the answer is eight.
100. However, next: Tuesday, Saturday, ? – the answer is Wednesday, four-day skips.

Score Interpretation

Moreover, five papers make the curve authoritative, therefore trust it now more than any single morning. However, taper weeks tempt heroics, and heroics subtract rest, and rest is the taper’s whole medicine. Therefore, paper, review, sleep – and nothing else.

FAQ

What changes at Day 12?

Nothing in the paper; everything around it – volume drops, review deepens, sleep lengthens.

When do mocks stop?

The Thirty-Second Recap

Day twelve. Same clock. Therefore, three windows. Words, numbers, logic. Moreover, caps protect totals. Negatives bleed them. However, five dots make a curve, and the curve is authoritative. Finally, paper, review, sleep. The taper knows the rest.

Explain It Simply

Fifth practice match, and the last of the full-volume weeks. However, the interesting part is outside the match: the training now shrinks on purpose, like a runner easing before race day. Therefore, the scorecard joins four brothers on the wall, and the family picture tells the truth no single photo can. Moreover, one question checks itself again, because checking is the habit that outlives every score. Finally, eat, sleep, repeat – the quietest training week has begun.

Rapid-Fire

• 100 questions, 100 marks, 60 minutes.
• Windows: 20; penalty: 0.25.
• Targets: 22, 20, 22; elite 75-plus.
• Countdown: 12 days after this paper – exam eve minus two.
• DI base: 1,250 thousand, average 250.

Abbreviations

• IBPS: the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection.
• PO: probationary officer.
• DI: data interpretation.
• RC: reading comprehension.
• PYQ: previous year questions.
• GA: general awareness.

The Compliance Frame

Moreover, this paper obeys the taper protocol: compliance with the caps, validation of every locked answer, and authorization from the five-paper curve alone. Therefore, however loud the last-week voices argue, the curve and the pillow win, in that order.

Taper weeks are won by pillows as much as papers.

Key Takeaways

In conclusion, Day 12 extends the curve into taper week: same instrument, worked keys, one voided item, and rest elevated to strategy. To summarize, sit it at exam timing, read the five-paper line, and trade every extra hour of grind for an hour of sleep. Therefore, the countdown ends quiet, rested and precisely calibrated.

References: ibps.in for the official pattern; this series’ Days 8-11 for comparison.

The Bedtime Version

This is match five, told small. Three rounds, twenty minutes each. A point for right, a quarter gone for wrong. However, the new rule is rest: the training now shrinks on purpose. Therefore, play the match, read the reasons, and sleep early. Moreover, the five scorecards on the wall now make a picture, and the picture knows the way. Finally, the big match is close, and quiet weeks are how the best walkers arrive.

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