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JMET - 2011
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Exam Snapshot
JMET 2011 was
overall, very much on expected lines, with 120 questions and 4 sections. The
pattern, including the order of sections, was exactly similar to last year. With 180 minute and
120 questions, time was never going to be a big constraint and the paper this
year re-affirmed this. With sectional cut-off being applicable this year as
well, students apportioning the available 180 minutes to all the sections
judiciously would stand a good chance of getting through the IIT of their
choice/dreams. Let
us look at each section in detail. Section 1 : Verbal Communication No. of
Qs: 30 The
Verbal section of JMET 2011 was by far the most difficult section of the
Management Entrance tests so far this year and also the toughest of the 4
sections this year. This was the case last year too. Looks like IITs are
stressing more on verbal ability, given the fact that engineers have the basic
reasoning & math skills and hence this section could be the differentiator
between a student making it through or not. There
were 4 RC passages in this section. The passages themselves were not long or
tedious to read, but to understand the idea presented by the passage, repeat
reading is a must. The questions that follow were also for most cases on the
tougher side, giving no respite to the students. The only silver lining to the
students was that all of the passages had at least one moderately difficult
question and those who spotted these and answered it correctly will have a
fatter chance than the rest.The passage
on Ethics and that on Social Conflict were the toughest of the four. Students
who expected to score well on the Verbal Ability part were not spared either.
Most of the words were extremely difficult and not out of the regular word
lists that students practice. The cloze passage question and the question on mis-spelt word were the only easy ones. The
distribution of questions in this section was as below
A good time allocation strategy for this section would be around
30-35 minutes. Cut off in this section is expected to be around 10-12 Section 2 : Logical Reasoning No. of
Qs: 30 After
a very tough Verbal section, the LR section provided the much needed relief to
the students. Those who prepared well for CAT and other tests would have found
this section to be on the easier side. Departing from the trend last year, the
focus on Critical Reasoning and Deductions was far lower this time. Most of the
questions were on Logical puzzles and this will increase the cut off for this
section this year. Students
with basic preparation on Tournament sets would have definitely cracked the 2
questions from that set, which was the easiest set in this section. The
remaining sets, like that on MBA projects, Murderer needed some deep logic, but
were not beyond the reach f the well prepared. The
CR question on Railway reservation would have stumped many, including the well
prepared, but it is questions like this which become the differentiators. The
distribution of questions in this section was as below
‘ A
good time allocation strategy for this section would be around 40-45 minutes. Cut
off in this section is expected to be around 9-10 Section 3 : Quantitative Ability No. of
Qs: 30 The
Quant section of this year’s JMET too had some “sitters” and students who took
the time (which was not a major constraint) to scan the paper to find these
will be well rewarded. There
were a good 7-8 easy questions in the section, like
that of the Fruit Vendor's profit, Two numbers in a ratio of 3:5, Couple of
questions on T&D etc. Around
10 were of moderate difficulty level, which students with a good grasp of
basics could have solved – The question on Credit Card numbers, the Linear
Programming problem on Bearings, a couple of questions on probability etc. Questions
like that on Mahesh & Akash could have been
solved using the options. Students
would have done well to keep off difficult questions like that on Concentric
Circles, Square revolved around a line and that on the conical tent. These were
heavy time guzzlers and the only those students who realized this early enough
would survived them. And to add to this, the question on the square revolved
around a line had multiple answers possible because of the unclear language and
compounding this, the correct option for none of those possibilities was
present. The
distribution of questions in this section was as below
‘ A
good time allocation for this section would be around 50-55 minutes. Cut off in this section is expected to be around 10 Section 4 : Data Interpretation No. of
Qs: 30 The
DI section of JMET 2011 would be one saving grace for the “not so well prepared
on quant topics but ready to grind my pencil in calculations“
kind of students.Many, in fact
most, of the questions needed only straight forward calculations and no twisted
logic. But the calculations, though straight forward, had some very awkward
numbers to work with, like those in the set on MP-LADS and those in the set on
Civil services exam. However, with time not being a luxury, the students should
be able to get around “minor” difficulties like calculations, provided the sets
over all were of moderate level, both in terms of the data to be understood and
in terms of the logic needed to solve them. The
distribution of questions in this section was as below
‘ A
good time allocation strategy for this section would be around 45-50 minutes. Cut off in this section is expected to be around 11-12. Sectional
Scores and Overall Cut-Off JMET
is the qualifying exam and as such the cut-offs given are what we estimate is
required to secure a rank. Each of the IITs could possibly have a
different/higher sectional cut-offs depending on their selection process. Our
estimate of the overall score required to get a call from different IIT’s is as
follows: Expected
Overall Cut-off marks
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