On the whole the level of the test was moderate to difficult. The test contained many moderate and difficult questions and hence the important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was slightly easier than reasoning section. 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. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘how nano-technology has started playing role in the world of technology’ was easy to understand. The questions based on it were also easy. The second passage (5-9) based on] the correlation accuracy of keeping time & increase in entropy’ was slightly difficult to understand and questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘perceptions regarding unconscious mind & a few occult based instances’ was difficult to understand. All the questions based on it were also moderate. The fourth passage (13-14) based on ‘role of genetic endowment & evolutionary rigour in development of languages’ was slightly difficult in terms of understanding. All the questions based on it were moderate except Q13, which was easy. The questions (17,21 & 23) based on finding summary were all easy except Q17, which was easy. The questions (18, 20 & 24) based on sentence rearrangement were either moderate or difficult. The questions (19 & 22) were based on finding the misfit sentence out of given sentences. The overall, feel of the section was moderate. 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 3 easy, 11 medium and 6 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 7 - 10 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easier than DI this time. The Quantitative section had 4 easy, 5 medium and 13 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 7 - 10 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
Overall, the paper was moderate to difficult, 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. The quant section was slightly easier than reasoning section. Verbal section was moderate. 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, & 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 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.
