On the whole the level of the test was moderate to slightly 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 tougher 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 ‘default effect & reasons behind it’ was an interesting read. All the questions based on it were moderate except Q2, which was easy. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘decline in the trust on public institutions by the people’ was easy to understand & questions based on it were also easy. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘meaning & implication of judicial independence’ was difficult to understand & questions based on it were also either moderate or difficult except Q 12, which was easy. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘critical comparison between hunter-gatherer education & formal education’. The questions based on it were a mixed bag. Overall, the verbal section was moderate to slightly tough. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 18-20 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 7 easy, 9 medium and 4 difficult questions in this section. There were four blocks, of 5 questions each. The block (Each of the 60 rooms in a hotel is occupied on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. One or more of three newspapers, the Daily Overview, the Daily News and the Daily Post) was the easiest and was a must do block and 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 fetched90+ percentile by attempting 8-10 questions with approx. 85 % accuracy.
The difficulty level of quant was tough this time. The Quantitative section had 3 easy, 6medium and 13 difficult questions. Selection of questions was important to crack this section as there were a few questions of easy and moderate level. 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 7-8 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
On the whole the level of the test was moderate to slightly 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 tougher than reasoning section. Verbal section was moderate to slightly 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.