On the whole the level of the test was moderate. The test contained many moderate and difficult questions and hence the important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The DI section was easier than Quant. 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 ‘overattributing human like qualities & cognizance to LLM based on biased perceptions’ was tricky to understand. The questions based on it were also moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘correlation between human capital & physical labour along with experience’ was easy to understand & questions based on it were also easy. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘reasons behind increase in life – expectancy’ was slightly tricky but questions based on it were all easy except Q9, which was moderate. The fourth passage based on ‘neural mechanism underlying social biases. The questions (17 & 18) based on rearrangement were difficult. The questions (19 & 20) based on summary were easy. The questions (21& 22) based on finding the misfit sentence were moderate & easy respectively. The questions (23 &24) based on best – fit were moderate. The overall feel of the section was moderate. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75 -80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was Moderate. There were 14 easy, 1 medium and 5 difficult questions in this section. The first set, second set and third set (three colleges, Seven friends, Research papers) was a must do. 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 10- 13 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section easier than DI this time. The Quantitative section had 4 easy, 9medium and 9 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 7 – 10questions 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. 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.