This was the most difficult section, not that the others were any easier, in the paper.
Question selection and getting out of the potential time guzzlers was the key to
this section. But for the DI set on Assets & Sales data, which was relatively on
the easier side, the rest were difficult. Sets like the one on Mr. Sanyal in
particular was the most difficult of the lot with huge calculations and multiple
possibilities (combinations). The students would have done well to
have realised this in their first reading
and left it. The set on Maxam Glass Company had a couple of easy questions, but
again managed to trouble the students with a couple more of difficult questions
The Quant part had a fair sprinkling from different Arithmetic and Pure Math areas and, as was
overall, as already said, a howler.
The couple of questions on 545 contenders for a position, otherwise known as Josephus’ Problem,
were, without doubt, the toughest of the section and those who kept away from
these, inspite of the maximum weightage given to these questions would have been
the smart ones.
A lot of financial terminology was used in the paper, and those with some familiarity with
these could have saved some time in navigating through the wordings.
The cut-off is expected to be around 10-11
|
Area
|
Description
|
No. of Qs
|
Difficulty level
|
Good Score
|
|
QA
|
All Areas
|
All Areas
|
27
|
Difficult
|
5-6
|
|
DI
|
Table & Line Graphs
|
Costs – Mulchand Textiles
|
3
|
Difficult
|
6-7
|
|
Line Graph
|
Assets & Sales data
|
4
|
Easy
|
|
Bar Graph
|
Employee Data – Maxam Glass Co.
|
3
|
Moderate - difficult
|
|
Table
|
Investments – Mr. Sanyal
|
4
|
Very Difficult
|
|
DS
|
Arithmetic
|
|
2
|
Difficult
|
1
|
|
Overall
|
|
43
|
Very Difficult
|
12-13
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