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IBPS PO 2025 Prelims Reasoning PYQ – 23 Aug 2025 Shift 1 (35 Questions with Solutions)

Reasoning Ability paper of IBPS PO 2025 Prelims, 23 August 2025 Shift 1, covering seating, birth-order puzzles, syllogism, inequalities and blood relations, with worked solutions.

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IBPS PO 2025 Prelims Reasoning PYQ: Puzzles, Seating and Syllogism Practice

Seating arrangements, birth-order puzzles, syllogism and blood relations make up this IBPS PO 2025 Prelims Reasoning Ability paper from the 23 August 2025 Shift 1 exam. Aptitude360 presents it as a previous year paper, so you can practise the same mix of puzzles and short reasoning items from that shift. A worked solution comes with every question.

Topics in the IBPS PO 2025 Shift 1 Reasoning section

  • Linear seating arrangement with persons in a row facing north
  • Parallel-row seating with one row facing north and the other facing south
  • Month-wise birth order puzzle
  • Birth-year and age-calculation puzzle based on a fixed base year
  • Meaningful word formation from selected letters of a given word
  • Digit pairs in a number with the same gap as in the number series
  • Multi-generation family blood relations
  • Inequalities, syllogism and odd one out

Key reasoning concepts to revise for IBPS PO Prelims

  • Left and right orientation when persons in facing rows look in opposite directions
  • Building a month or year table before placing people in a scheduling puzzle
  • Using 'some', 'all' and 'no' statements to test definite and possible conclusions
  • Reading direct and indirect inequality chains between elements
  • Symbols for gender and generation in family tree diagrams

Revision tips for banking reasoning puzzles

  • Fix the definite clues first in seating puzzles and draw separate cases for uncertain ones
  • Count digit pairs in both the forward and backward directions so none are missed
  • Draw Venn diagrams for every syllogism instead of solving them mentally
  • Write the alphabet with positions once at the start to speed up letter-based questions

Who should practise this IBPS PO reasoning paper

IBPS PO aspirants preparing for the Prelims who want real shift-level puzzle and seating practice. It also helps other bank PO and clerk candidates who face similar reasoning sets.

FAQs about IBPS PO 2025 Prelims Reasoning PYQ – 23 Aug 2025 Shift 1 (35 Questions with Solutions)

How many questions were in the IBPS PO 2025 Prelims (23 August 2025, Shift 1) Reasoning Ability section?
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Probationary Officer (IBPS PO) 2025 Prelims, 23 August 2025 Shift 1 Reasoning Ability section on Aptitude360 has 35 multiple-choice questions, and Aptitude360's timed version gives 20 minutes for them.
What was the marking scheme in IBPS PO 2025 Prelims (23 August 2025, Shift 1) Reasoning Ability?
In the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Probationary Officer (IBPS PO) 2025 Prelims, 23 August 2025 Shift 1 Reasoning Ability section, each question carries about 1.14 marks and a wrong answer costs a quarter of that question's marks; an unanswered question costs nothing. The maximum score on this section is 40.
IBPS PO 2025 Prelims (23 August 2025, Shift 1) Reasoning Ability analysis: which topics were asked?
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Probationary Officer (IBPS PO) 2025 Prelims, 23 August 2025 Shift 1 Reasoning Ability section had questions on topics including syllogisms, puzzles, analogy, direction sense and blood relations. For example, one question begins: “How many pair of digits can be formed in the number 73915243, which have same number of digits between then as in the number series (both forward and backward direction)?” To practise these, see Aptitude360's Syllogism and Puzzle Test Problems practice lessons.
How many puzzle sets came in IBPS PO 2025 Prelims (23 August 2025, Shift 1) Reasoning Ability?
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Probationary Officer (IBPS PO) 2025 Prelims, 23 August 2025 Shift 1 Reasoning Ability section had 8 puzzle and arrangement sets, covering 32 of its 35 questions. They include ones that open with “In this question below, some statements are given…”, “Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F…” and “Fourteen persons are sitting in two parallel rows…”.
Where can I practise IBPS PO 2025 Prelims (23 August 2025, Shift 1) Reasoning Ability questions online?
You can practise the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Probationary Officer (IBPS PO) 2025 Prelims, 23 August 2025 Shift 1 Reasoning Ability section on Aptitude360, where it is a free test. Normal practice is untimed and needs no account, while the Simulated test runs on one clock with a question palette and shows your score, section-wise analysis and the key at the end.

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IBPSPO25 PRE · 23 Aug 2025 · S1 · Reasoning3520 min

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Total marks
39.9 across 35 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.

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