On the whole the level of the test was moderate. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was easier than reasoning section in this exam. Verbal section was moderate. One peculiar thing in this paper was that there were clusters of medium and difficult questions, so one had to skip the difficult cluster and to move to medium level cluster quickly. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘biological characteristics of octopuses was an interesting read. The questions based on were either easy or moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘technical-social dualism and consequences of ignoring societal welfare in finding solutions to the technical issues as well as problems in general’ was slightly tricky to understand. All the questions based on it were moderate except Q6, which was easy. The third passage (9-12) based on instinctual nature and inheritance of music as found in human species’ was slightly moderate in terms of understanding, The questions based on either moderate or difficult except Q9, which was easy. The fourth passage (13- 16) based on ‘analysing philosophy of science in terms of thoughts & social institutions; was easy to moderate. The questions based on it were moderate except Q14, which was easy. The questions (17-19) based on sentence rearrangement were a mixed bag. The questions (20 &21) based on best-fit were easy. The questions (22-24) based on summary were moderate except Q24, which was easy. Overall, feel of the section was moderate. One could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 16-18 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 6 easy, 13 medium and 1 difficult question in this section. The DI block (The two plots below show data for four companies code-named A, B, C, and D over three years) was the easiest and should have been attempted. The two blocks (A specialty supermarket sells 320 products. Each of these products was either a cosmetic product or a nutrition product and Every day a widget supplier supplies widgets from the warehouse (W) to four locations – Ahmednagar (A),)were moderate and few of the questions should have been attempted from these blocks. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 12-14 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easy to moderate. The Quantitative section had 10 easy,8 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 10-12 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was moderate, 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.
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