On the whole the level of the test was tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was 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.
The first passage (1-4) explained how Mexican cavefish evolved by losing their eyes while developing stronger senses and better nutrient-storage abilities to survive in dark, food-scarce caves. The passage was slightly tricky to understand and questions based on it were also moderate. The second passage (9-12) explained that different sciences had evolved with different technological instruments and practices, with astronomy being more receptive, biology more interventional, and mathematics increasingly computational. Again the passage and questions based on it were moderate. The third passage (17-20) explained that literature had treated place as more than a backdrop by showing how landscapes shaped human experience, memory, culture, and emotion. All the questions based on it were moderate. The fourth passage (21-24) argued that big tech had used friendly and trustworthy AI language to make users accept biased, false, or company-serving outputs more easily. The passage was slightly difficult to understand and all the questions based on it were difficult except Q21 which was moderate. The questions (5 & 6) based on misfit were moderate. The questions (7 & 13) based on best-fit were difficult and moderate respectively. The questions (6 &16) based on sentence rearrangement were difficult. The questions (14 & 15) based on finding summary were 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.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate to tough. There were 5 moderate and 17 difficult questions this time. The block (Ananya Raga, Bhaskar Tala, Charu Veena, and Devendra Sur are four musicians.) was manageable and should have been attempted. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 8-10 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easy to moderate. The Quantitative section had 7 easy, 14 medium and 1 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.
The overall feel of the paper was 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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