On the whole the level of the test was easy to moderate. Many of the questions were of easy & moderate level barring a few difficult questions so the key to getting a good percentile was selection of questions so as to leave difficult questions and save the time for easy and moderate level questions.
The Quant and DI section was very easy with 24 easy and only 6 medium level questions. Most of questions from Quant were from the topics like Geometry and Mensuration (2 easy, 2 medium), SI/CI (1 easy), Set and Venn diagram (all 4 easy), Time speed and distance (3 easy). The other topics with lesser number of questions were permutation and combination (2 easy), ratio (1 easy) simple and compound interest (1 easy) number system (2 easy) and algebra (1 easy).
Reasoning had questions from topics namely Series (all 3 easy), Odd man out (1 medium) and Syllogisms (3 easy) There were 2 questions from coding and they were easy also. There was no question on either Tables or graphs.
In order to generate a percentile of 90+ a student should have ideally attempted around 25 - 27 questions with 90% accuracy.
The verbal section was easy to moderate. First set of questions Q(1-3,24-26) was based on sentence completion. All questions were easy except Q (1, 25) which were of medium level and Q (3) which was difficult. Next set of questions Q (4-6) was based on contextual meaning. All questions were of medium level. Another set of questions Q (7-10) was based on complete para jumbling. All questions were either moderate or difficult except Q (8) which was easy. Then two medium level questions Q (11, 30) were based on synonyms/antonyms. Again, a few questions Q (12-14, 27-29) were based on analogies. All questions were either easy or medium. Last set of questions Q (15-23) was based on reading comprehension. 1st paragraph Q (15-19) talked about universe and its expansion and contraction theories. All questions were of medium level except Q (17) which was difficult. 2nd paragraph Q (20-23) talked about sea level monitoring system developed by NIO. All questions were factual and were of medium level. One should do 20-22 questions with 80% accuracy to get 90%ile.
The section was easy to moderate. There were 12 easy level questions, 24 medium level questions. The section had a variety of questions ranging from business and economy, environment, sports, environment, International and national, finance and banking, science and technology, books and authors to Current GK. One has to do 23-25 questions with 80-85% accuracy to get 90%ile.
The overall feel of the paper was easy to moderate. Reasoning was having around 50% easy questions and remaining moderate questions. So the strategy was simply to follow the instructions carefully given in the questions and to only attempt the easy questions by carefully selecting them. While the strategy for Quant part would be to keep on solving the questions coming on your way and straight away leaving the questions in which you were likely to stick due to difficult calculations. In verbal section, focus should have been on reading comprehension and vocabulary.
