On the whole the level of the test was moderate. The important factor was selection of appropriate questions to attempt. The quant section was slightly manageable as only it had a few easy questions. Reasoning section was the toughest in this exam. 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 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 ‘discussion on rationality and why it is as scarce as shown in Steven Pinker’s book on the same’. The passage touched an interesting topic and discussed many tangents associated with topic in discussion. All the questions based on it were either moderate or easy. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘patrimony laws meant to protect artefacts’ discussed various aspects on these laws. This was altogether new area for the test takers. Again the questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The third passage (9-12) was based on ‘understanding romantic aesthetics’ was easy to understand and questions based on it were also easy. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘understanding global warming with totally new perspective’ was again interesting to read. All the questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The questions (17 &18) based on best –fit were easy and moderate respectively. The questions (19 & 20) based misfit were moderate. The questions (21 & 22) based on sentence rearrangement were easy & moderate respectively. The questions (23 &24) based on summary were easy & moderate respectively. One could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 18-20 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was easy. There were 6 easy, 15 medium and 1 difficult question in this section.The blocks (There are only three female students — Amala, Koli and Rin,A, B, C, D, E and F are the six police stations in an area, which are connected by streets, An air conditioner (AC) company has four dealers — D1, D2, D3 and D4 in a) were easy and should have been attempted.In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 16-18 questions with approx. 80 % accuracy
Students found this section easy The Quantitative section had 7 easy, 11 medium and 4 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. A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 16-18 questions with approx. 85% accuracy.
The overall feel of the paper was moderate, though 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 easily manage 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, 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 require analysis and knowledge of tricks to answer the questions. It is not advisable to spend too much time on TITA questions especially in the verbal section.
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