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 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. The key to getting a good percentile was time management and selection of questions.
The first passage (1-$ based on ‘bidding on coal mines & its impact’ was moderate to understand and questions were also either easy or moderate. The second passage (5-8) based on ‘business on delivery & logistics” was slightly tough to understand and all the questions based on it were moderate except 7Q, which was easy. The third passage (9-12) based on ‘finding the meaning of life i.e., existentialism’ was easy to understand and all the questions based on it were easy. The fourth passage (13-16) based on ‘methods to validate scientific theories’ was moderate and questions based on it were either easy or moderate. The questions (17 & 18) based on sentence rearrangement were difficult. The questions (19 & 20) based on summary were difficult. The questions (21 & 22) based on misfit were difficult & moderate respectively. The questions (23 & 24) based on best – fit were difficult & easy respectively. Overall, feel of the section was moderate. One could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting 19-21 questions with 75 -80% accuracy.
The difficulty level of DI was moderate. There were 11 easy, 4medium and 5 difficult questions in this section. The block (Delhi University gives admission to a student on the basis of his/her final exam score) was a must do block.
In this section, one could have fetched 90+ percentile by attempting 8-10 questions with approx. 80% accuracy.
Students found this section difficult than quant. The Quantitative section had 3 easy,10 medium and 9 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/Alligation/Ratios).
A good student could have scored 90+ percentile by attempting around 8-10 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 reasoning section. Verbal section was moderate. 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.
