Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad conducted its
Entrance Exam -MICAT - for admission to its 2 Year Post Graduate
Diploma in Management Communications on 14th
February 2016.
This time, MICAT was conducted twice for the 2016-18 batch. The exam
was computer based. The test comprised two parts. The first part had
Section A. The second part had five sections named Section B –
F.
This section had two questions. The questions were descriptive in nature. This section tested the writing ability and creative skills of test-takers. The total time given for attempting these questions was 35 minutes.The first question was based on Essay Writing. The topic for the essay was ‘To be happy we need not be too concerned with others' The essay question was further sub-divided into three questions. In its first and the second questions, 5 points each had to be written in favour of and against the topic. In its third question, an essay of 200 words had to be written either in favour of or against the topic. In the last part the students were to assume that they were responding to an editor's request. The instructions for the question clearly stated that ‘no marks would be awarded for a neutral viewpoint’.
The second question was on Story Writing. It had 4 different
pictures. The students had to select a sequence for the pictures and
then write a story in 300 words including all the pictures.
Section B, which was a psychometric test, had no negative marking.
It was compulsory to attempt all the questions in this part. The
instruction sheet clearly said that failure to attempt all the
questions in this part would lead to disqualification.
There were three kinds of questions. The first set of questions had 30 statements out of which one had to pick 10 describing one’s personality traits without ranking them. The second set of question asked one to choose from a set of two arguments and also to rate them in accordance with one’s personality traits. In the third set of questions, one had to rank the various responses under given situations on a scale of 1 to 6 (where a rating of 1 implied highest priority and a rating of 6 meant least priority).
S.no |
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
1 |
Personality trait |
1 |
Not Applicable |
2 |
Choosing from arguments |
26 |
Not Applicable |
3 |
Ranking Response to a situation |
10 |
Not Applicable |
Section C had 30 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question. The section was tougher as compared to the previous exam. The statement-assumption questions were quite tricky as the options were very close. However, the logic in some questions appeared ambiguous. Overall, the difficulty level of the section was moderate-tough.
S.no |
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
1 |
Word Combination questions |
15 |
Moderate-Tough |
2 |
Missing Picture(Visual Reasoning) |
7 |
Moderate- Tough |
3 |
Statement -Conclusion |
4 |
Moderate |
4 |
Statement-Assumption |
4 |
Moderate-Tough |
Section D had 25 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question. Few questions such as location of 'Kaziranga' was from Geography while 'Beginning of Non-Cooperation movement' was from History. Rest of the questions were from Business, Contemporary Economic Development, Brands & Tagline, Book and author, Corporate affairs etc. One question was from abbreviation. Overall, this section was easy-moderate.
S.no |
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
1 |
History |
1 |
Easy |
2 |
Geography |
2 |
Easy |
3 |
Abbreviations |
1 |
Easy |
4 |
Chemistry |
1 |
Easy |
5 |
Biology |
1 |
Moderate |
6 |
Book and Author |
1 |
Moderate |
7 |
Business, brands and media |
18 |
Easy-moderate |
Section E had 25 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question. The vocabulary section was moderate-tough. There was one reading comprehension passage which was very easy. The parajumble section was extremely tricky. Overall, this section was moderate-tough.
S.no |
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
1 |
Fill in the blanks (2 blanks) |
5 |
Moderate-Tough |
2 |
Idioms (Contextual) |
6 |
Moderate |
3 |
Word/Idiom Correct Usage |
4 |
Easy |
4 |
Parajumble |
5 |
Moderate-Tough |
5 |
Reading Comprehension |
1 Passage (5 questions) |
Easy |
Section F had 25 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question. There were 17 questions from Data Interpretation and 8 questions from Mathematics. The questions from DI were easy. Only one set of DI from allegation and mixture chapter was of moderate level of difficulty. The questions from Mathematics were easy in nature. Overall, this section was easy-moderate.
S.no |
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
1 |
Data Interpretation (Line Graph) |
4 |
Easy |
2 |
Data Interpretation (Table based) |
4 |
Moderate |
3 |
Data Interpretation (Caselet) |
7 |
Easy |
4 |
Data Interpretation (Bar Graph) |
2 |
Moderate |
5 |
Set Theory |
1 |
Easy |
6 |
SI/CI |
1 |
Easy |
7 |
Arithmetic Progression |
1 |
Easy |
8 |
Probability |
1 |
Tough |
9 |
TSD |
1 |
Easy |
10 |
Time and Work |
1 |
Moderate |
11 |
Direction |
1 |
Easy |
12 |
Percentage |
1 |
Easy |
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All the best!!
Team CL