Test Analysis - WIN CAT 04

Overall Brief

On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was slightly easier than reasoning section in this test. Verbal section was moderate to tough. 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.

Verbal Ability

Easy Questions:

None

The first passage (1-4) discussed how the human auditory experience, though specialized for speech, contrasts with the broader acoustic capabilities of other species, highlighting the impact of noise pollution on both humans and animals. It was difficult to understand and questions based on it were also tricky. The second passage (5-8) explored how historians, like map-makers, must abstract and omit details to represent the past, while navigating the challenges of historical truth, objectivity, and the non-linearity of time. The passage was reasoning laden and was tricky to understand. All the questions based on it were also moderate. The third passage (9-12) explored how modern warfare is evolving with the integration of unmanned systems, precision munitions, and electronic warfare, highlighting the hybrid nature of current conflicts in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, and the Middle East. The passage was easy to understand but the questions based on it were tricky. The fourth passage (13-16) analysed the moral implications of jingoism, explaining how evolutionary theories of kinship and group survival do not justify extreme loyalty at the cost of outsiders, emphasizing the risks of such behavior in modern interdependent societies. The passage was an interesting read but again the questions based on it were moderate. The questions (17& 18) based on misfit were moderate. The questions (19 & 20) based on sentence rearrangement were also moderate. The questions (21 & 22) based on finding the summary were moderate. The questions (23 & 24) based on best-fit were also moderate. Overall, feel of the section was moderate to tough. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 16-18 questions with 75-80% accuracy.

DI & Reasoning

Easy Questions:

None

The difficulty level of DI was tough. There were no easy and moderate questions this time. All 22 questions were on difficult side. The block (Six friends A, B, C, D, E and F went for shopping and each of them spent some integral amount of rupees on shopping.) was manageable and should have been attempted. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 6-8 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.

Quantitative Ability

Easy Questions:

61, 62

Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 2 easy, 15 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, and Arithmetic. A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 10-12 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.

Strategy & Tips

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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