On the whole the level of the test was 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 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 tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘false implications highlighting the morbidity in our democracy’ was an interesting read and slightly convoluted in terms of understanding the main argument. All the questions were either difficult or moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘misconceptions, & myths regarding high population impacting development’ was again tricky to understand and questions based on it were either moderate or difficult. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘defining conventionalism wrt perception & understanding of art work’ was difficult to understand and all the questions were tricky. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘attributes of mischief and of the person associated’ was slightly tricky as it went north regarding it. All the questions based on it were either moderate or difficult except Q14, which was easy. The questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangement were difficult & easy respectively. The questions (19 & 20) based on summary were a mixed bag. The questions (21 & 22) based on misfit were moderate. The questions (21 & 22) based on best – fit were easy. The overall feel of the paper was tough.
The difficulty level of DI was Moderate. There were 4 easy, 11 medium and 5 difficult questions in this section. The third set (The rectangular area) and forth set (machine which identify defective widgets) are must to be attempted. 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 fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 6 - 10 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easier than DI this time. The Quantitative section had 7 easy, 10 medium and 5 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/SI-CI/Ratios). A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 9 - 12 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
On the whole the level of the test was 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 easier than reasoning section. Verbal section was 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.
