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 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 RC (4-7) based on ‘perceptions & implications of spices on European voyagers & people. The passage was easy to understand and questions were all easy or moderate except Q8, which was difficult. The second passage (10-13) based on ‘analysis & implication of reviewing academic journals from peers & other sources’ was easy to understand & questions based on it were all easy. The third passage (14-17) based on ‘critical analysis of unintended & secondary effects of major technical & industrial advances’ was slightly tricky to understand and questions based on it were also moderate. The fourth passage (18-21) based on ‘drivers of attack by carnivores on humans’ was an interesting read and questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The questions (1, 3, & 24) based on summary were easy except Q3, which was moderate. The questions (2, 9, &23) based on best-fit were again easy except Q23, which was moderate. The questions (8 & 22) based on misfit were difficult & moderate respectively. 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 moderate. There were 11 easy, 8 medium and 4 difficult questions in this section. The two blocks (The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are placed in ten slots and Eight gymnastics players numbered 1 through 8 underwent a training camp where they were.) were easy 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 10 easy, 7 medium and 5 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, and Arithmetic. A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 10-12 questions with approx. 85% 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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