On the whole the level of the test was tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was slightly 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 (2-5) explained how governments handled sharp energy price rises by protecting vulnerable groups through targeted, temporary support while maintaining fiscal discipline and market price signals. The passage was slightly tricky to understand but questions had very close options. The second passage (7-10) highlighted how Singapore had strengthened its role as a healthcare and medtech innovation hub by using its MICE ecosystem to connect ideas, investment, research, and global partnerships. The passage was an interesting read but again the questions were tricky. The third passage (12-15) explained how global mangrove forests had begun recovering due to reduced human interference, stronger conservation efforts, and their natural ability to regenerate despite ongoing environmental threats. The passage was manageable but questions were tricky. The fourth passage (21-24) explained how the 1935 England-Germany football match had revealed the deep political, moral, and ideological tensions surrounding sport under the shadow of Nazi Germany. Both the passage and questions were tricky. The questions (1 & 11) based on summary were moderate. The questions (6 & 16) based on best-fit were also tricky. The questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangement were moderate. The questions 19 & 20) based on misfit were tricky. Overall feel of the section was moderate to tough. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 18-20 questions with 75 -80% accuracy.
The level of DI section was difficult. Students found no block easy or of medium difficulty level. The random questions from two blocks (Seven people: Afjal, Bashir, Chaman, Deewana, Ehsan, Faizal and Ghayal are leaders of marketing teams in companies &A confectionary store namely ‘Railway Confectionary’ at platform number 3 of New Delhi railway station sells ten types of appetizers ) would have been solved.
In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 6-8questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate to difficult. The Quantitative section had 1 easy, 10 medium and 11 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 8-6-8questions 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.