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IBPS SO Prelims Reasoning Mock Test 1
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection: Specialist Officer, Scale I (IT Officer / Agriculture Field Officer / HR-Personnel Officer / Marketing Officer)
Focus on Reasoning with 50 original questions in one dedicated practice session.
Syllabus-checked original practice
Mapped to the official Prelims syllabus and answer-checked on 6 August 2026.
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About this IBPS SO Reasoning sectional test
This sectional test isolates Reasoning from the IBPS SO Prelims pattern, so you can drill it on its own instead of only meeting it inside the full mock. It draws 50 original practice questions across 11 distinct topics, syllabus-checked the same as our full mocks.
Topics covered
Alphanumeric Series
5 questions
Blood Relations
5 questions
Coding-Decoding
5 questions
Direction Sense
5 questions
Inequality
5 questions
Puzzle
5 questions
Ranking and Order
5 questions
Syllogism
5 questions
Classification
4 questions
Data Sufficiency
4 questions
Seating Arrangement
2 questions
Scoring and result analysis
Correct answers earn 1 mark and wrong answers deduct 0.25 marks. Unattempted questions score zero. This section's 50 questions are difficulty-tagged: 5 easy, 35 medium, 10 hard. After submitting, you receive topic-wise accuracy, time spent, answer explanations, and source links.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an official IBPS SO question paper?
No. It's an independent practice test with original Reasoning questions, mapped to the official IBPS SO Prelims syllabus and answer-checked on 6 August 2026.
How many questions are in this Reasoning sectional test, and how long is it?
50 questions in 40 minutes.
Which topics does this test focus on?
It spans 11 topics, with the heaviest coverage on Alphanumeric Series, Blood Relations, and Coding-Decoding.
Is there negative marking in this test?
Yes. Each wrong answer deducts 0.25 marks, and each correct answer earns 1 mark. Unattempted questions score zero.
More IBPS SO practice
25 other reviewed tests are published for this exam, and these are the nearest 6. The rest of this Prelims stage comes first, then the other stages.
- English Language Sectional Test 2 · 50 questions
- Reasoning Sectional Test 2 · 50 questions
- Quantitative Aptitude Sectional Test 2 · 50 questions
- English Language Sectional Test 1 · 50 questions
- Quantitative Aptitude Sectional Test 1 · 50 questions
- Prelims Full Mock Test 2 · 150 questions
Drill Reasoning beyond IBPS SO
50 of the 50 questions here are pure reasoning, and reasoning is the one part of a paper that is not exam-specific: a seating puzzle does not change because it appears in a bank paper rather than a railway one. Our Logical Reasoning section pools 750 such questions from across every exam on this site and sorts them two ways: by difficulty, so you can find your level, and by topic, so you can drill the family that costs you time.
It is practice, not simulation: there is no negative marking there, so a score in that section is not comparable with your score here. Use it to build the skill, and come back to this test to rehearse the exam.