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 (6-9) examined how nineteenth-century criminal law and emerging mental science interacted in determining defendants' mental states, highlighting the challenges of judging insanity and criminal responsibility in court. The passage was tricky to understand and questions based on it were also tricky. The second passage (7-10) discussed contrasting research on how income inequality affected economic growth, presenting arguments that it could either promote or hinder growth depending on the economic, political, and social context. It was an interesting read but again the questions based on it were moderate. The third passage (17-20) explained how electronic music challenged traditional ideas of music while arguing that it remained a deeply human form of artistic creation despite its use of new technologies and compositional methods. The questions based on it were moderate. The fourth passage (21-24) explained how complex systems exhibited unpredictable yet patterned behaviour, showing how randomness, contagion, and rare extreme events shaped outcomes in areas such as pandemics, financial markets, and evolution. The passage was slightly difficult to understand and questions based on were also moderate to tough. The questions (1 & 14) based on misfit were moderate. The questions (4 & 5) based on misfit were moderate. The questions (2 & 3) based on finding summary were moderate. The questions (15 & 16) based on sentence rearrangement were also tricky this time. 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 block (Five countries engage in trade with each other. Each country levies import tariffs on the other countries. The import tariff levied by Country X on Country Y is calculated) should have been solved. A few questions must have been done from rest. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 8-10 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 3 easy, 16 medium and 3 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 6-8 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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