On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The reasoning section was much tougher than quant section in this exam. Verbal section was easy to moderate. One peculiar thing in this paper was that there were clusters of medium and difficult questions, so one had to skip the difficult cluster and to move to medium level cluster quickly. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) explained the paradox between “survival of the fittest” and extinction—showing that fitness is context-dependent and can be overwhelmed by rapid environmental change. The passage was slightly tricky to understand and questions based on it were a mixed bag. The second passage (5-8) evaluated how “emotionally intelligent” tech creates a feedback loop that both induces and manages our emotions, monetizing predictability. It warns that AI-mediated communication standardizes feelings, reduces empathy, and narrows how we think and talk. The passage was easy to understand and questions based on it were easy except Q6, which was moderate. The third passage (9-12) explained how political ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, socialism, libertarianism) shape economic policy and legal frameworks. It also noted that globalization, crises, and institutions keep forcing these ideologies to be recalibrated. The passage was moderate in terms of understanding it. All the questions based on it were also moderate. The fourth passage (13-16) explained why humans lack gills despite fish ancestry: lungs evolved early as air sacs that enabled the move onto land, while gills are ineffective out of water and were lost. It highlights exaptation—pre-existing lungs and limb-like fins being refined by natural selection into tetrapod lungs and limbs. The questions (17-19) based on best-fit were easy. The questions (20-22) based on finding the summary of given paragraph were easy except Q21, which was moderate. The questions (23 & 24) based on finding the misfit were easy. Overall feel of the section was easy to moderate. One could have easily scored 90+percentile by attempting 18-20 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was difficult than quant this time. There were 1 easy, 9 medium and 12 difficult question in this section. The blocks (Four electric cars: Tata, Mahindra, Tesla and Nissan are &At Bake Fresh, four different types of pastry) were moderate and should have been attempted. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 6-8 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easy The Quantitative section had 5 easy, 11 medium and 6 difficult questions. Selection of questions was important to crack this section. There were questions from varied topics like Geometry, Basic Numbers, Basic Algebra, Progression And Series, Arithmetic (Percentages, Time and Work, mixtures, percentages, Allgation, Ratios). A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 12 -14 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was moderate to tough, though for the students who knew how to manage the time available to the best i.e., not wasting much time in lengthy and difficult questions, could easily manage an overall good attempt. Most of the questions in quant section were from Arithmetic, Algebra, Number system and Geometry. For verbal section, one should have good reading speed & comprehension skills as there were 4 RCs based on different areas and also a few questions based on other areas such as summary, SR, best-fit & odd one out. One must focus on contextual vocabulary to understand and score well in passages &summary-based questions. Questions such as sentence rearrangement and Best-fit require analysis and knowledge of tricks to answer the questions. It is not advisable to spend too much time on TITA questions especially in the verbal section.
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