On the whole the level of the test was very difficult. The test contained many moderate and difficult questions and hence the important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant and reasoning sections were very difficult in this paper. 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 difficulty level cluster quickly. 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; growth and its associated challenges & pitfalls was moderate in terms of understanding. The questions based on it were a mixed bag. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘confusion around the perception of females being a serial killer’ was slightly intense in terms of understanding. The questions based on it were also either moderate or difficult. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘perceptions of scientific principles among people and case in point was butterfly effect’ was a little difficult in terms of understanding the ideas presented in the passage’. The questions based on it also were either moderate of difficult. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘political& economic aspects of policies’ was easy to moderate. The questions based on it were all easy except questions (13 & 16), which were difficult. This time non – rc questions were moderate to difficult. The questions (17 & 18) based on summary were difficult & moderate respectively. The questions (19 & 20) based of rearrangements were difficult & moderate respectively. The questions (21 & 22) based on best-fit were slightly manageable. The questions (23 & 24) based on misfit were easy & difficult respectively. Overall, feel of this section was moderate to difficult. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 16-18 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was Moderate. There were 1 easy, 12 medium and 7 difficult questions in this section. By attempting a couple of questions from rest of the blocks, one could have fetched a very good percentile.
In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 3 - 5 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section the toughest this time. The Quantitative section had 0 easy, 8 medium and 14 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 (Percentages/Time and Work/Mixtures/Percentages/SI-CI/Ratios). A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 4-7 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
Overall, 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 on lengthy and difficult questions, could easily manage an overall good attempt. Both quant &reasoning sections were tough. 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 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/Misfit require analysis and knowledge of tricks to answer the questions. It is advisable not to spend too much time on TITA questions especially in the verbal section.
