The first passage (1-4) based on ‘discussion on rationality and why it is so scarce as shown in Steven Pinker’s book on the same’. The passage touched an interesting topic and discussed many tangents associated with topic in discussion. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘patrimony laws meant to protect artefacts’ discussed various aspects on these laws. This was altogether new area for the test takers. The third passage (9-12) was based on ‘understanding romantic aesthetics’ was difficult to understand. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘understanding global warming with totally new perspective’ was again interesting to read. The most interesting part of this paper & verbal section, including non – RCs questions, was that there were no easy questions. Hence it was very important to select the RCs & other questions wisely to solve. However,one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% 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.