On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. The test contained many moderate and difficult questions and hence the important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. Reasoning section was as tough as Quant section. Verbal section was moderate to tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘how European Colonialism’ initiated the degradation of socio-ecological construct’ was tricky to understand. However, the questions based on it were easy except Q2, which was difficult, The second passage (5-8) based on ‘how David Hilbert helped in solving complex mathematical problems’ was difficult to understand. All the questions based on it were moderate except Q6, which was easy. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘the essence of ‘Moonshot” way of looking at the problems and challenges involved while executing this thought process’ was again tricky to understand and all the questions based on it were tricky. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘role of linguistics in shaping contours of socio-cultural realms’ was difficult to understand and questions based on it were either difficult or moderate. The questions (17 & 18) based on best-fit were moderate & difficult respectively. The questions (19 &20) based on misfit were moderate & easy respectively. The questions (21 &22) based on summary were moderate & easy respectively. The questions (23 &24) based sentence rearrangement were easy. Overall, feel of this section was moderate. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was easy. There were 7 easy, 11 medium and 4 difficult questions in this section. The first block (7 B-schools named A, B, C, D, E, F, and G participated in inter-college competition) was easy and one who had a basic sense of maximization and minimization would have solved this very easily. The second block (16 empty blocks are to be filled by eight numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,) was a Sudoku type block and should have been attempted. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 12-14 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 7 easy, 11 medium and 4 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 A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 12-14 questions with approx. 85% accuracy.
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 easily manage an overall good attempt. Reasoning section was as tough as Quant section. Verbal section was moderate to 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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