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 slightly easier than reasoning section. 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 ‘book on after death journey by Egyptian nobles & challenges faced by them in this journey’ was slightly moderate in term of understanding & questions based on it were also either easy or moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘book on cold war & how the perception of cold war has changed over the period of time’ was easy to understand except a few phrases used in the passage. The questions based on it were a mixed bag. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘implication & validation of a few theories on evolution of organisms’ was tricky to understand & questions based it were also moderate or difficult. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘what made one writer to write a book on a war waged against Jews by Nazis’ was difficult to understand & questions based on it were also difficult.
The questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangement were moderate & difficult respectively. The questions (19 & 20) were based on finding the summary of the given paragraphs. Moth the questions were moderate. The questions (21 &22 based on finding the misfit were easy & moderate respectively. The questions (23 & 24) based on finding the best placement for the given sentence were moderate. Overall. Feel of the section was moderate to tough. However, one could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 17-19 questions with 75-80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 4 easy, 10 medium and 6 difficult questions in this section. There were four blocks, of 5 questions each. The block (In the Cyber Spectrum Pvt. Ltd., there are 3 types of employees:) was the easiest one and was 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 6-8 questions with approx. 85% accuracy.
The difficulty level of quant was easier this time. The Quantitative section had 8 easy, 8 medium and 6 difficult questions. Selection of questions was important to crack this section as there were a few questions of easy and moderate level. 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.
Overall, the paper 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 slightly easier than reasoning section. 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.
