On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough. 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. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘legal perspectives on political reforms & moves’ was moderate and questions based on it were either easy or difficult. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘role of weapons in the war’ was easy and questions based on it were easy. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘perception & impact of truth/facts’ was slightly difficult to understand but the questions based on it were all easy except 11Q, which was difficult. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘discussion on corruption with case in point related to Hexi pharma’ was tough and questions based on it were also moderate or difficult except 14Q, which was easy. The questions (17 & 18) based on summary were difficult & easy respectively. The questions (19 & 20) based on sentence rearrangement were difficult and easy respectively. The questions (21 & 22) based on misfit were easy & moderate respectively. The questions (23 & 24) based on best – fit were difficult and easy respectively. Overall, feel of the section was moderate. One could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 19-21 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 5 easy, 4 medium and 11 difficult questions in this section. The block (each variable below is a distinct digit and none of digits is 0) was a must do block and a few questions from rest of blocks would have helped to get good percentile.
In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 8-10 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
The Quantitative section had 3 easy, 9 medium and 10 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/Alligation/Ratios).
A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 6-8 questions with approx. 85% accuracy.
On the whole the level of the test was moderate to tough., 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. 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.
