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 easy to 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 (1-4) based on ‘The INDCOSERVE tea cooperative was revitalized by new CEO Supriya Sahu in less than two years, leading to better tea quality, profits, and a new retail range’ was a little tricky to understand. The questions based on it were also moderate except Q4, which was easy. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘Drawing from cross-cultural surveys, anthropologists like Richard Shweder and Alan Fiske identified five universal moral themes that Jonathan Haidt proposed are the primary colors of our moral sense, and rooted in evolutionary senses’ was an interesting read. The questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘The pedagogical revolution initiated by John Dewey's philosophy of progressive education, which emphasized hands-on learning, individual interests, and civic engagement, came under sustained assault’ was easy to understand. The questions based on it were easy except Q10, which was moderate. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘Recent changes to the steering of higher education, particularly in Australia, Western Europe, and Japan, were underpinned by neoliberal ideology that shifted state control toward supervisory "evaluative state" models’ was tricky to understand. The questions based on it were also moderate except Q16, which was easy. The questions (17-19) based on finding summary were easy. The questions (20-22) based on best-fit were moderate. The questions (23 & 24) based on finding misfit were easy & moderate respectively. Overall, feel of the section was easy to moderate. One could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 18-20 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 6 easy, 10 medium and 6 difficult questions in this section. The block (A person was comparing the specifications of mobiles of eight different companies,) was the easiest 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 11-12 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
Students found this section a little easier than DI this time. The Quantitative section had 7 easy, 9 medium and 6 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 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 & 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 & misfit require analysis and knowledge of tricks to answer the questions.
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