TANCET - M.C.A. 2015 Analysis

TANCET 2015 was conducted on 16thMay 2015, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Every year Anna University conducts this exam on behalf of the Government of Tamilnadu. In the last few years it was conducted in the month of March but this year it was conducted in May.

Snapshot of the Exam

Number of Questions	100
Marking Scheme	1 mark for every correct answer
Negative Marking	1/3 mark for every wrong answer
Number of Choices	4
Duration	120 minutes

TANCET M.C.A 2015, was a relief to the students as easy-moderate difficulty level questions were more in number and these questions were based on the regular testing areas. One important change that we observed in this year's paper was that a new question type was introduced, where one has to focus on what is the necessary part which can be associated with the given word. Based on this seven questions were given.

Over the last few years many changes took place in the composition of the questions which made it difficult to guess the paper. In the years 2013 and 2014, there was heavy focus on non-verbal reasoning. In fact in those years questions on this area occupied almost 40% of the total weightage. In the same way there were many changes in the questions that were based on computers. Earlier TANCET used to focus on programming / flowchart based questions. In the last two-three years, the focus shifted to electronics and hardware related areas.

Quantitative Aptitude

This year the Quantitative Aptitude part of TANCET mainly had questions from the topics -Time & Distance, Time & Work, Percentages, Averages, Permutations & Combinations, etc. Most of these questions involved simple formula substitution while a few others required application of concepts. The questions given on Quantitative Aptitude, this year,were from the following areas.

Area	Number of Questions	Difficulty Level
Numbers	7	Easy - Moderate
Simple Equations	3	Easy
Time & Distance	4	Easy - Moderate
Time & Work	2	Easy
Percentages	5	Easy
Simple Interset	1	Easy
Permutations & Combinations + Probability	3	Moderate
Averages	4	Easy - Moderate
Miscellaneous	3	Easy - Moderate

Overall, these questions were of easy to moderate level of difficulty. A well prepared student who has taken coaching from T.I.M.E., should be in a position to get a score of 27+ marks by spending 45-50 minutes.

English

This year the English part of TANCET mainly had questions from Reading Comprehension, synonyms, antonyms, proverbs, idioms and phrases, para formation. The following is the split up of the areas and their difficulty levels.

Area	Number of Questions	Difficulty Level
Vocabulary	15	Easy - Moderate
Verbal Reasoning	8	Moderate
Reading Comprehension	4	Easy

A well preapared student should be in a position to get a score of 20+ marks by spending 25-30 minutes.

Computers

This year, the Computers part of TANCET had questions mainly from operating systems, DBMS, networking , hardware and binary logic. Most of the questions that were based on networking, computer basics and operating system can be classified as easy while the questions based on hardware were moderately difficult.

Totally there were 24 questions based on this and a score of 16+ can be considered as very good.

Reasoning & Miscellaneous

This year the presence of reasoning drastically decreased to six questions from 40 questions given in the previous two years. Of these six questions, five were based on venn diagrams, while the other one was based on clocks. All the six questions were easy. Apart from this there were four questions based on static GK and these questions can be categorized as easy.

As mentioned earlier, a new variety of questions were introduced in this year TANCET M.C.A paper. In each of these questions, the focus was on identification of the word or phrase which can be associated with the given word. For example, Desert is the word given and the options for the necessary part were mentioned as cactus, arid, oasis and flat. In this way the questions are given.

An overall score of 72+ can be considered as very good.