On the whole the level of the test was moderate. The test contained many moderate and difficult questions and hence the important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. Quant section was slightly easier than Reasoning section. Verbal section was moderate to slightly tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘Third world is an imposed condition by Global North’ was difficult to understand and questions based on it were moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘attributes& essence of true leadership’ was very difficult to understand and questions based on it were either moderate or difficult. The third passage based on ‘impact of AI & its surpassing the humans in terms of intelligence’ was an interesting read. The questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The fourth passage 13-16) based on ‘importance of space medicines’ was manageable and all the questions based on it were easy except Q16 which was moderate. The questions (17& 18) based on summary were easy. The questions (19, &20) based on best-fit were difficult & moderate respectively. The questions (21 & 22) based on misfit were moderate & easy respectively. The questions (23 & 24) based on sentence rearrangement were difficult & moderate respectively. 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.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There was 7 easy, 7 medium and 8 difficult questions in this section. The block (Twelve historians, labeled H1 through H12, completed their research projects in different years.) was the easiest and should have been attempted. The other block (An All-India Academic Excellence Competition was held, where the top seven students were Aryan, Bharat, Chirag, Devansh, Esha, Farhan, and Gaurav, not necessarily in the same order. ) was moderate and few of the questions should have been attempted from other blocks. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 7-10questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 12 easy, 5 medium and 5 difficult questions. Selection of questions was important to crack this section. There were questions from varied topics such as Geometry, Basic Numbers, Basic Algebra, Progression And Series, Arithmetic (Percentages/Time and Work/Mixtures/Percentages/Allgation/Ratios). 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, 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 easily manage an overall good attempt. Quant section was slightly easier than Reasoning section. Verbal section was moderate to slightly 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, sentence rearrangement, &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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