General Awareness questions of IBPS clerk exam 2012:

The general awareness or GK part came up with lots of banking related questions as this part has
been named as 'General Awareness (With special reference to banking industry'. We have given
below a short description on GA part which have been asked in the question papers-

Governor of Reserve Bank of India

Questions from Schemes, policies, security, policies of RBI

Function of SEBI

Repo rate

Cash Reserve Ratio

Minister of railways, broadcast & information

President of Afghanistan

Padma Bhusan award given in 2012 etc.

Computer Knowledge questions of IBPS clerk CWE 2012 :

Computer awareness questions were as usual. This part comes up with the following
questions/portions-

Questions on CPU's function

Computer languages ( asked 7-8 questions)

Software (Utility software etc)

Full form of HTML

Question on short cut keys (Ex-ctrl X etc) etc

General Intelligence/Reasoning questions of IBPS CWE-II for clerk :

This part contains usual question as appeared in the previous year IBPS/Bank exams.

Some lengthy question on like persons sitting in a circle/line etc. 20 number of such
questions have been asked.

Statement & conclusion (10 questions)

Puzzles (5 marks) etc

Numerical Ability questions of IBPS clerk CWE-II :

The questions of this part came from the following portions-

Profit & loss

 Simple Interest

Time & work

Mensuration

Simplification

Series etc.

English language questions of IBPS clerk CWE 2012 :

This portion was same as the previous year question. The questions were from the following part-

Passage

Fill in the blanks

Error Correction

Sentence improvement etc.

 Details of Managing Committee
Chairman
1 Shri K R Kamath Punjab National Bank
Deputy Chairmen
2 Ms. Chanda Kochhar ICICI Bank Ltd
3 Shri T M Bhasin Indian Bank
4 Shri R M Malla IDBI Bank Ltd
Honorary Secretary
5 Shri Pratip Chaudhuri State Bank of India
Members
14 Shri Arun Kaul UCO Bank
15 Shri M Narendra Indian Overseas Bank
Shri H S Upendra
16 Vijaya Bank
Kamath
17 Shri M V Tanksale Central Bank of India
19 Shri Ajai Kumar Corporation Bank
25 Shri Aditya Puri HDFC Bank Ltd
26 Shri Rana Kapoor Yes Bank Ltd
27 Shri P Jayarama Bhat Karnataka Bank Ltd
28 Shri Parmit Jhaveri Citibank N A
29 Shri Sunil Kaushal Standard Chartered Bank
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
30 Shri Stuart Milne
Ltd
31 Shri Shrinivas D Joshi Shamrao Vithal Cooperative Bank Ltd
32 Shri Satish Utekar The Thane Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd
33 Shri S K Banerji The Saraswat Cooperative Bank Ltd
34 Ms Shikha Sharma Axis Bank Ltd
35 Shri B A Prabhakar Andhra Bank

Question 1
If 13:11 is the ratio of present age of Jothi and Viji respectively and 15:9 is the ratio between
Jothi's age 4 years hence and Viji's age 4 years ago. Then what will be the ratio of Jothi's age
4 years ago and Viji's age 4 years hence ?

a) 15:9 b) 9:15 c) 11:13 d) 13:11

Answer : c) 11:13

Solution :

Let the present age of Jothi and Viji be 13X and 11X respectively.
Given, Jothi's age 4 years hence and Viji's age 4 years ago in the ratio 15:9.
That is, 13X + 4 / 11X - 4 = 15/9
9(13X + 4) = 15(11X - 4)
117X + 36 = 165X - 60
48X = 96
X = 2.
Now, required ratio is 13X-4 / 11X+4 = 13(2)-4 / 11(2)+4 = 22/26 = 11/13.
Hence the answer is 11:13

Question 2

The ratio of present age of X and Y is 11:20 respectively. Seven years ago, X was 5/11 of Y in
age. Find the difference between their present ages.

a) 15 b) 30 c) 22 d) 18

Answer : d) 18

Solution :

Let the ages of X and Y, 7 years ago be 5a/11 years and a years respectively.
Then, (5a/11 + 7)/(a+7) = 11/20
20(5a/11 + 7) = 11(a+7)
100a/11 + 140 = 11a + 77
21a = 693
a = 33
Therefore, the difference between their present ages = (a+7) - (5a/11 + 7) = 40 - 22 = 18.

Question 3

If 25 is the sum of ages of X, Y and Z and if X is 17 years younger than Z who is thrice as old
as Y. Then how old is Z?

a) 15 b) 18 c) 9 d) 12

Answer : b) 18
Solution :

Let Y's age be a.

Then Z's age is 3a.
And X's age = 3a-17.

Now, a + 3a + 3a-17 = 25.

7a - 17 = 25.
7a = 25 + 17 = 42
a = 6.
Therefore, Z's age = 3(6) = 18.

Question 4

A is 5 years elder than B who is now 4 times as old as C. C is now 7 years old. What was As
age when C was born?

a) 16 b) 26 c) 36 d) 20

Answer : b) 26

Solution :

Let age of A be X.
Then, age of B = X-5
C's age = 7

B's Age = 4 times as C

i.e., X - 5 = 4 x 7
X = 33.
Hence, A's age when C was born = 33 - 7 = 26.

Question 1
Two angles of a triangle is in the ratio 5 : 7 and the third angle is two-third of 180. What will be
the value of the smallest angle of the triangle?

a) 25 b) 35 c) 45 d) 55

Answer : a) 25

Solution :

Given that, 3rd angle is 2-3 of 180.

That is, 2/3 x 180 = 120
We know that, the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180.

Then the sum of remaining two angles is 180-120 = 60.

And they are in the ratio 5 : 7
That is, 5x + 7x = 60
12x = 60
x=5

The respective angle values of the triangle are 5(5) = 25, 7(5) = 35 and 120.
Hence the smallest one is 25.

Question 2

One of the angle of a triangle is twice the 2nd angle and 25 more than the 3rd angle. Find the
second largest value of the three angles.

a) 41 b) 57 c) 46 d) 61

Answer : b) 57

Solution :

Let X be the first angle of the triangle.

Then 2nd angle = X/2
And 3rd angle = X - 25

Being a triangle, all 3 angles add upto 180.

That is, X + X/2 + X - 25 = 180
2X + X + 2X - 50 = 360
5X - 50 = 360
5X = 410
X = 82.

Therefore 1st angle = 82.

2nd one = 41
3rd angle = 57.
Hence the required angle is 57.
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Question 3

In a triangle, the smallest angle is 68 less than the middle angle which equals the difference
between the largest and the smallest angle. What will be the largest angle?

a) 90 b) 92 c) 94 d) 96.

Answer : a) 90

Solution :

Let X be the smallest angle.

Then, middle angle = 68 + X

Largest angle - Smallest angle = Middle angle

Largest angle = 68+X + X = 2X + 68

Therefore, X + 68+X + 2X+68 = 180

2(2X + 68) = 2(90)
2X + 68 = 90 (by cancelling out 2 on both sides)
2X = 22
X = 11
Hence, the largest angle is 2(11) + 68 = 90.

Question 4

In a triangle, the largest angle is twice as much the middle angle which is thrice the smallest
angle. Find the largest angle.

a) 108 b) 102 c) 114 d) 120

Answer : a) 108

Solution :

Let the smallest angle be X.

Middle angle = 3X
And the largest angle = 2(3X) = 6X

Being a triangle, all 3 angles add upto 180

X + 3X + 6X = 180
10X = 180
X = 18.
Hence, the largest angle = 6(18) = 108.

Question 1

If 1000 times of a number X is (100-X) more than X. Then what will be X?

a) 10 b) 1/10 c) 2/5 d) 3/20

Answer : b) 1/10

Solution :

Given that, the number is X.

Then, 1000X = X + (100-X)
1000X = 100
X = 100/1000 = 1/10.
Hence the required number is 1/10.

Question 2

If you multiply a number by 500, the result will exceed the number by the sum of the number
and 4990/23. Then the number is:

a)10/23 b)12/23 c)20/23 d)30/23

Answer : a)10/23

Solution :

Let X be the number.

Then 500X = X + 4990/23
499X = 4990/23
X = 4990/23 x 1/499 = 10/23

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Question 3

If you divide a number by the result which obtained by multiplying the number by 120, the
answer is 1/120. Then the number is:

a) 100 b) 1 c) 10 d) data inadequate

Answer : d) data inadequate

Solution :

Let X be the number.

Then X/120X = 1/120 which does not give the accurate answer.
Then some more data are need to find the answer.
Hence the answer is option d.

Question 4

If 333 times of a number is 1665 more than 222 times of the number then the number is:

a) 125 b) 25 c) 15 d) 75
Answer : c) 15

Solution :

Let X be the number.

333 times of X = 333X
222 times of X = 222X
333X = 222X + 1665
111X = 1665
x = 1665/111 = 15

Problems on Profit and Loss:

Question 1

A man bought some goods for Rs.11,200 and sold them at 3/8 th of its cost price. Find
whether he had earned profit or loss(Percentage) ?

a) Loss of 62.5 % b) Gain of 62.5 % c) Loss of 12.4% d) None of these.

Answer : a) Loss of 62.5 %

Solution :

Cost price of the goods = Rs.11,200

Selling price of the goods = Rs.11,200 x 3/8 = Rs.4200
Then, loss = Rs.11200 - 4200 = Rs.7000
Loss percentage = 7000 x 100 / 11200 = 62.5%.

Question 2

A man sold an item by 23% more than its cost price and the selling price is Rs.14022 then the
cost price of the item is:

a) Rs.11400 b) Rs.14700 c) Rs.13200 d) Rs.11210

Answer : a) Rs.11400

Solution :

Selling price of the item is 23% more than the cost price i.e., 123% of cost price.
Given that the item is sold at Rs.14022.
we can write the above statement as, Rs.14022 = 123/100 x Cost price
Cost price = Rs.14022 x 100 / 123 = Rs.11400
Hence the answer is Rs.11400.

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Question 3

Cost price of 32 pens is same as the selling price of 24 pens. Then profit % is:

a) 33% b) 121/3% c) 31/3% d) 100/3%

Answer : d) 100/3%.

Solution :

The gain is 8 out of 24 Pens.

Therefore, gain percentage = 8 x 100 / 24 = 100/3%.

Question 4

A girl bought a book for Rs.450 and sold it at 20% profit. By using that amount she bought
another book and sold it at 5% loss. Then overall profit amount is:

a) Rs.102 b) Rs.132 c) Rs.58 d) Rs.63

Answer : d) Rs.63

Solution :

Cost Price of 1st book = Rs.450.

Profit % of 1st book = 20% profit
Selling price of 1st book = Cost Price of 1st book + Profit % of 1st book
= Rs.450 + 20% of 450 = Rs.540

Cost price of 2nd book = Rs.540

Loss % of 2nd book = 5%
Selling price of 2nd book = Cost Price of 1st book + Profit % of 1st book
= Rs.540 - 5% of 540 = Rs.513
Overall profit = Rs.513 - Rs.450 = Rs.63