Test Analysis - WIN CAT 04

Overall Brief

On the whole the level of the test was tough. The test contained many moderate and difficult questions and hence the important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. Quant was slightly easier than reasoning section. Verbal section was tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.

Verbal Ability

The first passage (1-4) based on ‘failure of the vision of the venture capitalist’ was difficult to understand. All the question based on it were moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘morality & essence of jurisprudence; was again very difficult to comprehend and questions based on it were also tricky. The third passage (9-12) based ‘discussion on evolutionary adaption of some behavioral traits’ as exhibited by some of the species was tricky understand as it had jargon in it. The questions were also tricky. The fourth passage (13 -16) based on physiological & social impact of war’ was an interesting read but again very inferential in terms of understanding. The questions based on misfit, best-fit & summary were also moderate. Overall feel of the section was tough. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 14-16 questions with 75-80% accuracy.

DI & Reasoning

The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There was 10 medium and 12 difficult questions in this section. The block (The following scatter diagram gives the details of the Selling Price (in Rs/unit) and the Cost Price (in Rs/unit) for the products manufactured by four companies’) was the moderate and should have been attempted. The other block (Bhaskar is analyzing the prices of four shares in the KSE in the last five days starting from Monday to Friday) was difficult and few of the questions should have been attempted from this blocks. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 6-8 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.

Quantitative Ability

Easy Questions:

51, 52, 58

Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 3 easy, 10 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 & Work, mixtures, percentages, Allgation, Ratios). A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 8-10questions with approx. 80% accuracy.

Strategy & Tips

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.Quant was slightly tougher than reasoning section. Verbal section was tough. 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 paragraph summary. One must focus on contextual vocabulary to understand and score well in passages& summary. Questions such as misfit&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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