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 reasoning section was tougher than quant 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 slightly tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘challenges faced by women to rejoin after a professional break’ was easy to understand but questions based on it were a mixed bag. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘difference in the earning & opportunities based on gender& post motherhood’ slightly difficult to understand and questions were either easy or moderate. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘context in book based on advantages of building a good team’ slightly difficult to understand and questions also were tricky. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘imprudence shown by the government by disinvestment Iin LIC’ was tricky to understand & questions were also tricky. The set of questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangement was moderate. The questions (19 & 20) based on finding summary were moderate & easy respectively. The questions (21 & 22) based on misfit were easy & moderate respectively. The questions (23 & 24) based on Best-Fit were difficult & moderate respectively. The overall feel of the section was moderate to slightly tough. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
DI section was moderate. There were 5 easy, 3medium and 12 difficult questions in this section. The blocks (team organized a car light show with eight cars named A to H placed in the following manner) was the easiest and 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 fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 7-9questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section moderate this time. The Quantitative section had 6 easy, 9 medium and 7 difficult questions. Paper was dominated by moderate level 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 around10-12questions with approx. 80% 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 reasoning section was tougher than quant 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.