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Test areas in management entrance tests |
Management entrance exams test the student's aptitude and
proficiency on the test areas given below. However, the number of questions,
sections, the duration of the exam, the number of questions from each area and
the level of toughness of the paper varies from exam to exam.
The hallmark of most management entrance exams especially exams like CAT is the
element of surprise. Therefore, even if a management entrance exam has what
might seem as set pattern in terms of questions over a few years, there is no
guarantee that the same will hold good for the next year as well. No test
pattern is sacrosanct and students would do well to prepare for any
eventuality.
You can look at the pattern of various management
entrance exams for the last few years by clicking here.
Now, lets look at different test areas that normally appear in management
entrances tests and the preparation that you should put in for these areas.
While the number of sections and the number of questions vary from test to test
(or from year to year for the same entrance test), all entrance tests cover the
following basic areas. The questions given in management entrance tests are all
objective type multiple choice questions. The knowledge level required in all
the areas for most management entrance exams is Tenth Standard level.
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Verbal Ability
Verbal Ability is an area that is present in almost all the management tests.
Questions in this area cover Vocabulary (Synonyms, Antonyms, etc), Grammar
(Sentence Correction), Language Usage (Fill in the Blanks), Verbal Reasoning
(Analogies, etc.). In some tests, there is a separate section for Verbal
Ability whereas in some other tests, there is one section which includes both
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension.
Click here to see a few model
questions that have been appearing in various management entrance tests in the
area of Verbal Ability.
Reading Comprehension
Like the two test areas referred to in the preceding paragraphs, management
entrance tests also have a section of Reading Comprehension. In Reading
Comprehension, students have to read passage(s) and answer questions that
follow the passages. This area tests the ability of the student to quickly
grasp what is being said in the passage before answering the questions. The
length of each passage and the number of questions that follow a passage vary
from exam to exam. The Reading Comprehension questions in an exam like CAT are
normally considered to be more difficult that those in the other entrance exams
mainly because of the lengths of the passages given in Reading Comprehension.
In some tests, Reading Comprehension appears as a separate section whereas in
some other exams, there could be one section which includes Reading
Comprehension and Verbal Ability.
Click here to see a few model
questions that have been appearing in various management entrance tests in the
area of Reading Comprehension.
Quantitative Ability
While the term Quantitative Ability is a very broad one covering any question
that deals with figures and numbers, in the context of management entrance
exams, most people use the terms Quantitative Ability or Quantitative Aptitude
to refer to questions in Mathematics. This is an area that is present in almost
every management entrance test. Students are tested on questions that are
mostly of X Standard level - mainly in the areas of Arithmetic, Plane Geometry,
Mensuration and Algebra. Sometimes, questions are also asked from Trigonometry
and Co-ordinate Geometry.
Click here to see a few model questions that
have been appearing in various management entrance tests in the area of
Quantitative Ability.
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