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IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims English PYQ – 4 Oct 2025 Shift 2 (30 Questions with Solutions)

English Language questions from the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims of 4 October 2025, Shift 2: a passage on handcrafted guitars, cloze test, rearrangement and error detection, all explained.

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30
Duration
20 min
Marks
30

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Attempts
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IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims English PYQ 4 Oct Shift 2: RC, Cloze and Errors

This set is the English Language section of the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims held on 4 October 2025, Shift 2.

Topic-wise questions in IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims English

7topics
Reading Comprehension7 · 24%
Cloze Test5 · 17%
Error Spotting5 · 17%
Spelling5 · 17%
Para Jumbles4 · 14%
Synonyms & Antonyms2 · 7%
Word Usage & Swap1 · 4%

Based on the questions whose topic is confirmed (97% of this section).

What this tells you: course of action

  • Begin with Reading Comprehension, Cloze Test and Error Spotting. These carry about 59% of the questions, which makes them the best place for your first study sessions.
  • Keep in rotation: Spelling, Para Jumbles and Synonyms & Antonyms, a steady 38% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
  • Leave for last: 1 topic appears only once, about 3% in total. Revise that topic from short notes after the topics above are solid.
  • Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 5 for the first group, 4 for the keep-in-rotation group and 1 for the leave-for-last group.

English concepts to revise for IBPS Clerk Prelims

  • Main idea, tone and inference in business and environment passages
  • Collocations and word meaning in context
  • Subject-verb agreement, tense consistency and prepositions
  • Connectors and pronoun references that fix sentence order

FAQs about IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims English PYQ – 4 Oct 2025 Shift 2 (30 Questions with Solutions)

How many questions were in the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims (4 October 2025, Shift 2) English Language section?
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Clerk (IBPS Clerk) 2025 Prelims, 4 October 2025 Shift 2 English Language section on Aptitude360 has 30 multiple-choice questions, and Aptitude360's timed version gives 20 minutes for them.
What was the marking scheme in IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims (4 October 2025, Shift 2) English Language?
In the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Clerk (IBPS Clerk) 2025 Prelims, 4 October 2025 Shift 2 English Language section, each question carries 1 mark and a wrong answer costs 0.25 marks; an unanswered question costs nothing. The maximum score on this section is 30.
What type of questions came in IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims (4 October 2025, Shift 2) English Language?
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Clerk (IBPS Clerk) 2025 Prelims, 4 October 2025 Shift 2 English Language section included reading comprehension, error spotting, spelling and para-jumbles questions. For example, one question begins: “The sentence is divided into four segments: (A), (B), (C), and (D).” To practise these, see Aptitude360's Subject Verb Agreement practice lesson.
How many reading comprehension passages were in the IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims (4 October 2025, Shift 2) English Language section?
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Clerk (IBPS Clerk) 2025 Prelims, 4 October 2025 Shift 2 English Language section had 2 reading comprehension (RC) passages, covering 15 of its 30 questions. They open with “Behind every handcrafted guitar sold in California lies…” and “In the following passage there are blanks, each…”.
Can I attempt IBPS Clerk 2025 Prelims (4 October 2025, Shift 2) English Language as a mock test on Aptitude360?
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SectionQuestionsTime
IBPSC25 PRE · 4 Oct 2025 · S2 · English3020 min

Marking & rules

Total marks
30 across 30 questions.
Negative marking
A wrong answer costs marks. Leaving a question unanswered costs nothing.
Attempts
100 in total. An attempt is spent the moment you begin one.

What you get when you submit

The analysis is ready the moment you submit the paper.

Score and accuracy

Marks, percentage, right, wrong and skipped, and the time you took.

Section by section

The same figures for each section, so a weak one cannot hide in an average.

The full answer key

Every question with your answer, the right one, the working, and the video where there is one.

Where you stand

Your score against the spread of everyone else who has sat this test.

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