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 much 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 to tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘trout farming & its associated challenges’ was moderate in terms of understanding and questions based on it were also either moderate or difficult. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘biographical narrative on Miguel, who wrote the novel ‘Don Quixote’ was moderate to difficult in terms of understanding. All the questions based on it were moderate except Q8, which was easy. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘features of photographs taken by Gursky and author’s analysis of Gursky’s work’ was easy to understand. The questions based on it also were also easy. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘role & importance of entrepreneurship in creating jobs & innovation’ was slightly moderate in terms of understanding. The questions based on it were a mixed bag. This time NON – RC questions were either moderate or difficult. The questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangements were difficult. The questions (19 & 20) based of summary were moderate &difficult respectively. The questions (21 & 22) based on misfit were also either moderate or difficult. The questions (23 & 24) based on best - fit were moderate& difficult respectively. Overall, feel of this section was moderate to tough. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate to tough. There were 3 easy, 11medium and 6 difficult questions in this section. Except The block (At Bake Fresh, four different types of pastry – Mango Pastry, Pineapple Pastry, Banana Pastry and Fresh Fruit Pastry) which was very calculative, rest blocks were moderate and at least two of these should have been attempted.
In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 8-10 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easiest among all win cats till now. The Quantitative section had 12 easy,6 medium and 4difficult 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/Alligation/Ratios).
A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 12-15 questions with approx. 85% 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 much easier than reasoning section. 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.
