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 DI. 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 tough. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-4) based on ‘impact of penetration of plastic in agriculture’ was easy to understand but questions based on it were a mixed bag. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘a different yet positive interpretation of vote-bank politics’ was an interesting read. The questions based on it were either moderate or difficult except Q (5 & 8), which were easy. The third passage based on ‘role of luck on our mind & actions again was slightly difficult to understand. The questions based on it were either moderate or difficult except Q 9 & 10), which were easy. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘contrasting views on income tax’ was tricky to understand & questions based on it were moderate. The questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangement were moderate. The questions (19 & 20) based on finding summary were easy & moderate respectively. The questions (21 & 22) based on finding the misfit were moderate & easy respectively. The questions (23 & 24) based on best-fit were moderate. Overall, feel of the section was moderate to tough. However, one could have easily scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was easy to slightly moderate. There were 11 easy, 5 medium and 4 difficult questions in this section. The First set (Teachers from five colleges), third set (Seven people in cinema) and forth set (Six students from different countries) were 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 fetched90+ percentile by attempting 12 - 14 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy.
Students found this section tougher than DI this time. The Quantitative section had 6 easy, 11 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 10 - 13 questions 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 quant section was tougher than DI. Verbal section was moderate to 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.
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