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 exam. Verbal section was tough. 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 impact of professionals’ perceptions on design & utility was moderate to difficult. The questions based on it were either moderate or difficult. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘how ideologies and ideologist can infuse variation in different areas’ was difficult to understand. The questions based on it were also difficult. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘inclusion of welfare of individual animal in conservations’ efforts is of paramount importance’. The passage was easy to understand but questions based on it were either difficult or moderate except Q12, which was easy. The fourth passage (13-16) based ‘sustainability of fashion wrt fast and slow fashion’ was tricky to understand. The questions based on it were either moderate or difficult except Q15, which was easy. The set of questions (17&18) based on misfit was moderate. The questions (19 &20) based on sentence rearrangement were difficult and moderate respectively. The questions (21 &22) based on summary were moderate. The questions 23 &24) based on best-fit were easy & moderate respectively. The overall feel of the section was tough. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 14-16 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There was 2easy, 13 medium and 7 difficult questions in this section. The block (Global Culinary Academy (GCA) offers five specialization options in the final semester) was the easiest and should have been attempted. The other block (The following information pertains to a group of students attending three sports selection trials Football (F), Basketball (B), and Volleyball (V)) was moderate and few of the questions should have been attempted from other blocks. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 7-10 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 6 easy, 7 medium and 9 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. 85% accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was tough, 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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