INDIAN BANKING RADAR (IBR) - IBPS PRELIMS INTELLIGENCE MOCK

🔥 PLATINUM SERIES 2.0 | VOL. 189 📅 6 OCTOBER 2026 | TUESDAY 🎯 TARGET: IBPS PO • IBPS Clerk/CSA • IBPS RRB • Banking Aspirants

⏱️ TIME: 15 MINUTES 📝 QUESTIONS: 20 🎯 MARKS: 20 ❌ NEGATIVE MARKING: 0.25 MARK FOR EACH WRONG ANSWER

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Q1.SEBI's Project Jagrook primarily seeks to promote:

A. Foreign portfolio investment

B. Investor awareness and informed decision-making

C. Bank recapitalisation

 D. Commodity derivatives trading

E. Corporate bond underwriting

Q2.Under Project Jagrook, stock brokers are required to display investor awareness messages on:

A. Only their physical branches

B. Their trading apps and websites

C. Only stock exchanges

D. Only demat account statements E. Only television advertisements

Q3.SEBI's “Samajh Se Investing Simple” campaign is intended primarily to:

A. Simplify investing and strengthen investor education B. Increase insurance penetration

 C. Promote agricultural lending D. Regulate bank deposits

 E. Expand commodity exchanges

Q4.The computerisation of PACS envisages bringing functional PACS onto:

A. A common ERP-based software platform

 B. A common stock-exchange platform

 C. A central insurance platform D. A credit-rating platform

 E. A foreign-exchange platform

Q5.RBI's Fraud Risk Management Directions for cooperative banks provide a framework for:

A. Deposit insurance and premium collection

 B. Prevention, early detection and timely reporting of fraud

C. Fixing lending rates for cooperative banks

D. Managing government securities

 E. Determining statutory liquidity requirements

Q6.40% of a number is 216. What is the number:

A. 480

 B. 50

 C. 520

 D. 540

E. 560

Q7.An article is sold for ₹7,480 after a discount of 15% on its marked price. What is the marked price: A. ₹8,400 B. ₹8,600 C. ₹8,800 D. ₹9,000 E. ₹9,200

Q8.The ratio of the incomes of A and B is 7:9. If their total income is ₹6,400, what is A's income: A. ₹2,400 B. ₹2,600 C. ₹2,800 D. ₹3,000 E. ₹3,200

Q9.The average of six numbers is 72. If five of the numbers are 58, 64, 71, 79 and 86, the sixth number is:

A. 72

B. 74

 C. 76

 D. 78

E. 80

Q10.A shopkeeper purchases an article for ₹1,250 and sells it for ₹1,450. What is the profit percentage:

 A. 14%

B. 15%

C. 16%

 D. 18%

E. 20%

Q11.Five persons P, Q, R, S and T have different heights. P is taller than Q, Q is taller than R, S is taller than P, and T is shorter than R. Who is definitely the shortest:

A. P

 B. Q

C. R

D. S

E. T

Q12.Statements: All banks are institutions. Some institutions are financial organisations. Conclusions: I. Some banks are financial organisations. II. All banks are institutions:

 A. Only I follows

B. Only II follows

 C. Either I or II follows

D. Neither I nor II follows

E. Both I and II follow

Q13.In a certain code, BANK is written as CBOL. How will LOAN be written in the same code:

A. MPBO

B. MPAO

C. NQBO

D. LQBM

E. MOBP

Q14.A is the sister of B. B is the father of C. D is the mother of B. How is D related to C:

A. Mother

B. Aunt

C. Grandmother

D. Sister

E. Cousin

Q15.A person walks 9 metres towards north, turns right and walks 6 metres, then turns right and walks 9 metres. How far and in which direction is the person from the starting point:

A. 6 metres west

B. 6 metres east

C. 9 metres east

D. 15 metres east

 E. 15 metres west

Q16.Identify the part containing an error: Neither the manager nor the officers was willing to approve the proposal:

A. Neither the manager

 B. nor the officers

 C. was willing

 D. to approve the proposal

E. No error

Q17.Select the word most similar in meaning to PRUDENT:

A. Reckless

 B. Cautious

C. Impulsive

D. Careless

E. Hasty

Q18.The branch manager is responsible ___ ensuring compliance with RBI directions: A. to

 B. with

C. for

D. by

E. on

Q19.Choose the correct improvement: “Each of the employees have submitted the documents”:

A. Each of the employees has submitted the documents

 B. Each of the employee have submitted the documents

C. Each employees has submitted the documents

 D. Each of the employees have submit the documents

 E. No improvement required

Q20.Choose the correctly spelt word: A. Accomodation

B. Acommodation

C. Accommodation D. Accommadation E. Accomodatione

🔑 ANSWER KEY

Q1.B Q2.B Q3.A Q4.A Q5.B Q6.D Q7.C Q8.C Q9.A Q10.C Q11.E Q12.B Q13.A Q14.C Q15.B Q16.C Q17.B Q18.C Q19.A Q20.C

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Accuracy first: Avoid blind guessing because every wrong answer costs 0.25 mark.

Quant: Practise percentages, ratios, averages, profit & loss and simplification regularly.

Reasoning: Build speed in syllogism, coding-decoding, blood relations and direction sense.

English: Focus on subject-verb agreement, vocabulary, prepositions, spelling and sentence improvement.

Banking Awareness: Revise RBI, SEBI, NABARD, NPCI, cooperative banking and recent financial-sector developments.

Time management: Do not spend excessive time on one difficult question. Mark it and move ahead.

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