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 slightly easier than quant section in this test. Verbal section was moderate. One peculiar thing in this paper was that there were clusters of easy, moderate and difficult questions, so one had to skip the difficult cluster and to move to easy & medium level cluster quickly. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (2-5) explored the paradox between survival of the fittest and extinction, explaining how environmental change, genetic diversity, and ecological interdependence had determined a species’ ability to survive. The passage was slightly difficult to understand but questions based on it were a mixed bag, i.e., two were easy and two were difficult. The second passage (7-10) criticized NEP 2020’s graded autonomy for having promoted financial and managerial independence rather than genuine academic freedom, thereby encouraging privatization, higher student costs, reduced support for less profitable disciplines, and continued institutional control through regulatory and political mechanisms. The questions based on it were moderate except Q10, which was easy. The third passage (12-15) explored how digital media and visual stimuli had reshaped cognition through neuroplasticity and psychological manipulation, while also arguing that art had been cognitively complex yet increasingly constrained by capitalist commodification and ideological control. The passage was difficult to understand. All the questions based on were either moderate or difficult. The fourth passage (21-24) discussed how post-pandemic hyperlapse consumerism had transformed buying habits through faster, technology-driven delivery systems, while creating employment opportunities alongside serious concerns about gig workers’ safety, health, and social security. The passage was easy to understand and all the questions based on it also easy except Q 24, which was moderate. The questions (1 & 16) based on best-fit were easy and moderate respectively. The questions (6 & 17) based on summary were moderate and easy respectively. The question (11 & 20) based on misfit were easy. Overall feel of the section was moderate. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 70-75% accuracy.
Students found this section a little easier than quant this time The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 5 easy, 13 medium and 4 difficult questions in this section. The block (On a particular day, six persons, A through F, got into and got down a car at seven different stops - P1,) was the easiest a must do block and by attempting a couple of questions from rest of the blocks, one could have fetched a very good percentile.
In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 10-12 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
The difficulty level of Quant was moderate. The Quantitative section had 3 easy, 11 medium and 8 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/SI-CI/Ratios). A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 10-12 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was moderate to tough, and 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 have easily managed 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, best-fit, rearrangement & odd one out. One must focus on contextual vocabulary to understand the key ideas and score well in passages & summary-based questions. Questions such as Best-fit, sentence rearrangement & misfit require analysis and knowledge of tricks to answer the questions.
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