On the whole the level of the test was tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was slightly easier than reasoning section in this exam. Verbal section was tough. 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) described ‘how consumerism had evolved into “hyperlapse” buying—faster, app-driven deliveries post-COVID—shifting habits toward impersonal, piecemeal purchases. It also noted that this speed had boosted India’s gig economy while raising safety, fatigue, and social-security concerns for delivery workers’. The passage was easy to understand & all the questions based on it were also easy. The second passage (5-8) argued that India’s agrifood system had grown dependent on plastics—mulch films, PVC pipes, and packaging—which had degraded soil and biodiversity and posed health risks via microplastics and toxic leachates. The third passage (9-12) surveyed major strands in the philosophy of technology, arguing that technology was not neutral—via Heidegger’s “enframing,” post phenomenology’s mediation, critical theory’s domination, and Winner’s “politics of artifacts.” The passage was difficult and questions based on it were either difficult or moderate. The fourth passage (13-16) examined the rise of extra-judicial police encounters—especially in Uttar Pradesh—as a response to trial sabotage by criminal networks and weaknesses in the legal process. The passage was manageable and so were the questions based on it. The questions (17 & 18) based on finding summary were easy. The questions (19 & 20) based on rearrangement were moderate. The questions based on misfit & best-fit were either easy or moderate. Overall feel of the section was moderate. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There was 6 easy 11medium and 5 difficult questions in this section. The blocks (A car service station workshop is operational on all seven days of the week throughout the year. and Four girls name Khushavi, Swara, Mannat and Sanvi go to SMASH – TRAMPOULINE Park to spend their holiday ) were the moderate and should have been attempted. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 10-12 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 6 easy, 9 medium and 7 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 10- 12questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was 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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