On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The reasoning section was easier than quant section in this test. Verbal section was moderate to tough in this test. 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 (2-5) described how various bird species had evolved diverse forms of cooperative behaviour, including communal nesting, cooperative hunting, predator deterrence, brood care, and food caching, which enhanced their survival and reproductive success. The passage was an interesting read. All the questions based on it were moderate. The second passage (7-10) examined the emergence of AI and the idea of technological singularity, contrasting futurist predictions of machine transcendence with René Girard’s view that humanity’s true transformative “singularity” had already occurred through the incarnation of Christ. The passage was slightly difficult to understand. The questions based on it were either moderate or difficult except Q8, which was easy. The third passage (12-15) examined how international humanitarian law had evolved to regulate increasingly advanced weapons and warfare, emphasizing the principles, treaties, and legal reviews that had governed the legality and use of weapons while addressing emerging technologies. The passage was manageable but questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The fourth passage (21-24) explored how abstract art and chaos theory had challenged conventional ideas of representation, predictability, and order by embracing complexity, unpredictability, self-organization, and the emergence of intricate patterns from seemingly simple processes. The passage was easy to understand but the questions based on it were moderate except Q21, which was easy. Overall feel of the section was moderate to tough. 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 9 easy, 9 medium and 4 difficult questions in this section. The two blocks (5 students received certain marks in 5 subjects and n a bustling cinema lobby, seven people - Vikrant, Daisy, Hardik, Rajul, Sapna, Saksham, and Sattu) were easy and should have been attempted. In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 9-11 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate. The Quantitative section had 7 easy, 8 medium and 7 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 12-14 questions with approx. 85% 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.