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With 120 questions to be answered in 120 min, NMAT is very clearly a test of your speed. Based on students' responses from the first day, the difficulty level of the test seems to be on par with that of last year.
Last year's Cut-offs:
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Mumbai campus :Overall 209 marks, QS-72, LS-55, LR 61
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Bangalore and Hyderabad campus: Overall 185 marks, QS-70, LS-55, LR 55
Kindly note that the below note is based on test-takers' feedback from the first day, and is no indication of how the paper might turn out to be in the subsequent days.
Sectional Feedback:
Quantitative Skills (48 Qs in 60 min): A lot of students found the section to be deceptively time consuming. One test-taker commented, "I was not mindful of the time I was taking per question, ended up not looking at quite a few questions towards the end". While a few others complained on the complexity of the questions, given the time constraint. "The questions are not straight forward to get the answer in under or just over a minute"
Logical Reasoning (40 Qs in 38 min): This section seemed to be a relatively easier one for the test takers. "The decision making questions saved a lot of time and ensured our overall attempts went up." Many felt the continued exposure to different models in the AIMCATs put them in good stead. "We have had ample practice of questions on the regular CAT modelled LR questions, so this section was not such a challenge."
Language Skills (32 Qs in 22 min): This section evoked mixed reactions from the test takers. While there were a few who were happy with the ease in a few question types "The grammar questions were easy, could be attempted without breaking a sweat." In the same breath there were the others who were left bewildered by a few difficult questions. "The vocabulary questions were mostly bouncers, we could not do anything but duck and move on."
Last-minute suggestions to test-takers:
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You are required to carry a printout of the admit card, confirmation e-mail, originals and photocopies of the primary and the secondary identity proof.
- You will be asked to choose the order in which you would like to attempt the three sections. You may want to begin with the area you are most comfortable with.
- Solve each section in iterations – picking up the easiest questions in the first iteration, then the moderate/guess-able questions and then a last iteration to mark answers for the remaining questions. You can use the “View Unattempted” tab on the summary screen to skim through the questions you had left in the earlier iterations.
- Since there is no negative marking, it would be advisable to mark answers for all the questions. However, the questions have 5 options – an indicator that fluke is less likely to yield any significant dividend. Please avoid marking fluke/guess-based answers in the first iteration.
- A few questions in the test may be wrong. You are advised against spending excessive time on any question. If you get the answer, mark it. If you don't, move on. You can always come back to a question later.
Since there is no word on the marking scheme of questions – whether it be the raw score or the scaled score - one must clearly try and answer as many questions as possible without worrying about the ideal/suggested number of attempts.
RESULTS :
The organising body for NMAT has had a policy of announcing the raw scores every 3-4 weeks on their website (www.nmims.edu) – giving the applicants an opportunity to write the test again if they wish to do so. However, empirical evidence suggests that the difference in the scores through successive attempts within the same test window is not substantial. So, it is suggested that one should write the test only if something really went wrong while writing the test and the score can be improved in the next iteration or if the raw score is in the 180-230 range.
The final score would be announced on January 24, 2014 on the college website.
In the light of NMAT organisers explicitly disallowing the sharing of exam content, no student / coaching institute / on-line portal can use the content or share it with anybody. No such information can also be posted on any forum on the internet. So, T.I.M.E. has put a policy in place where
(i) T.I.M.E. will not share information about content of the test.
(ii) T.I.M.E. will not encourage/ask students to disclose details about the content of the test that they took.
(iii) T.I.M.E. will not allow anybody to post such information on its website www.time4education.com.
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