The questions weren’t straightforward; there were plenty of Analytical Reasoning case lets and short Reading Comprehension passages made their presence felt. And to add to it were the familiar and rather confusing Visual Reasoning questions.

Quantitative Aptitude:

No approximations, no pure calculation. Only a set on number series & the operations had to be performed a maximum of five times to get to the answer. Some of the questions were high on difficulty level and difficult to crack. There were many single questions which were of a moderate difficulty level. There were a few sitters interspersed in between from basic geometry, percentages, averages, share of profit, ratios, etc. Most of these were doable but would require some time to crack .Few of the questions were very high on the difficulty level and could have been left for later. Many would have guessed the options with time running out.

LR & DI:

The one based on two pie-charts depicting distribution of revenue across various sectors was difficult. The one based on the four families and their incomes was easy to crack. The one based on the student’s scores in eight mocks was a sitter. The one based on A, B, C line graphs was moderate to do and involved a little bit of calculation. There were quite a few questions based on unit conversion which one had to be careful about. One that was quick to attempt/leave these questions probably had valuable time to solve other questions. One who didn’t attempt many must have got stuck somewhere in these sets.

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension:

This was the section where the question type though novel, these were the questions which were seen in CET in a different format before there were plenty of questions on critical reasoning. A new type of questions, these involved a short paragraph of 2-3 lines followed by five statements. One was required to find out which of them was an inference/assumption, which strengthened the paragraph, which one was a course of action and so on. The questions on fill in the blanks were of moderate difficulty level with around 6-7 out of 10 being doable. Para jumbles were conspicuous by their absence. The verbal part focused more on logic than actual verbal knowledge and was easy to moderate in difficulty level if one was able to solve it.

Visual Reasoning: There were questions on analogy, series completion, and odd man out. The level of difficulty was moderate to tough and with most of the questions involving a multiple number of elements, cracking the section was going to take up time.