On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was slightly easier than reasoning section in this test. Verbal section was moderate. 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) discussed how emotionally intelligent technologies and AI had begun reshaping human emotions, language, behaviour, and interpersonal communication, while raising concerns about dependence, standardisation, manipulation, and the erosion of genuine empathy. The passage was tricky but questions based on were easy except Q3, which was moderate. The second passage (7-10) discussed how political ideologies had shaped economic policies and legal frameworks by determining the balance between market freedom, state intervention, redistribution, regulation, and global economic adaptation. The passage was tough to understand and questions based on it were also moderate. The third passage (12-15) explored how technology had shaped human perception, identity, social relations, power structures, and ethical concerns, while questioning its neutrality and its deeper influence on the human condition. This passage was also difficult and questions based on it were either moderate or difficult. The fourth passage (21-24) argued that vote-bank politics had not been inherently divisive, but had represented the diverse demands of different social groups and could strengthen democratic balance unless political actors deliberately set communities against one another. The passage was easy to understand and questions based on it were also easy except Q23, which was moderate. The questions (1 & 16) based on summary were easy. The questions (6 & 17) based on best – fit were difficult and moderate respectively. The questions (11 & 18) based on finding misfit were easy and moderate respectively. Overall feel of the section was moderate. However one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 18-20 questions with 70-75% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was difficult than quant this time. There were 3 easy, 10 medium and 9 difficult question in this section. The blocks (A survey was conducted in four classes of BD Higher Secondary School & Six digits are arranged in the shape of a triangle – one digit at the apex, two digits in the next row and three digits in the lowest row.) were easy and 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 slightly easier than DI. The Quantitative section had 4 easy, 13 medium and 5 difficult questions. Selection of questions was important to crack this section. There were questions from varied topics such as Geometry, Basic Numbers, Basic Algebra, Progression & Series, Arithmetic and Work, Mixtures, Percentages, Allgation & Ratios etc. A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 10 -12 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was moderate to 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.