May 2008 MAT Analysis

Overview:

MAT does it once again, a jumbled MAT paper 3rd time in row and this also had some challenges to offer.

In this paper, Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation sections were all of average difficulty level, having quite a few questions in each section that could be easily managed.


Executive Summary:

The basic sequence of section with possible attempts was as follows:

 

Section

No. of Questions

Possible Attempts

Time Required

Expected Score

Reasoning

40

19

35

15 +

QA

40

21

35

17 +

DI and DS

40

22

35

18 +

G.A.

40

8

10

6 +

Language

40

20

35

15 +

Total

200

90

150

65 + (excluding GK)

 

*Note: The number of attempts and the score has been worked out on the basis of the experts’ insight on how the students would have taken the test and what score normally has been achieved by the students in past years in this level of paper.


SECTION I: LOGICAL REASONING


This has been the scoring area for many students in the recent MAT papers. This time there was a marginal jump in language based reasoning questions and hence bit more complicated but still was easy. The questions can be broadly classified as:

 

Analytical Reasoning

These were mixed bag questions with broad breakup as under:

Type

No of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Direction Sense

3

Easy

Blood Relationship

2

Easy

Misc (single questions)

5

Easy

Data Arrangement

7 (2 sets)

Average

Verbal Reasoning

The broader breakup of this section was as follows:

Type

No of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Critical reasoning

4

Difficult

Cause Effect relationship

3

Average

Statement Arguments

4

Average

Statement Conclusions

4

Easy-Average

Statement Assumptions

4

Easy

Courses of Action

4

Easy-Average


Hence, about 19 questions from this section could have been attempted.

Assuming 75%+ accuracy, a score of 15+ was easily possible in 35 minutes.


SECTION II: QUANTITATIVE ABILITY


This section was good for students to enhance there scores. All time favorite arithmetic was very prominent. The topic wise break up of the questions was as follows:

  

Topic

No. of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Percentages

3

Easy-Average

Ratio n proportion

9

Easy

Averages

3

Easy

Time Speed Distance

5

Easy-Average

Time n Work

3

Easy-Average

Geometry

1

 

Mensuration

4

Easy

Trigonometry

2

Easy

Clocks Calenders

4

Easy

Permutations and Probability

4

Average

Number System and Misc

2

Average

 

Assuming an accuracy of 80% and attempt of 21 questions, a score of 17+ is possible with a time spend of about 35minutes.


SECTION III: DATA INTERPRETATION

 

This was a easier section as compared to last 2 MAT’s. The sets were either lengthy or difficult to interpret. The easy part was DS and Quantitative Comparison questions. The summary was as under:

 

Type

No. of Quest

Difficulty Level

Tables based set

4 (1 set)

Average

Traingular graph

4 (1 set)

Easy

Bar graph

8(2 sets)

Average-Difficult

Pie chart

4 (1 set)

Average-Difficult

Multiple Line graph

3 ( 1 set)

Average-Difficult

Caselet

5 ( 1 set)

Average

Data Sufficiency

6

Easy

Quantitative Comparison

6

Easy

 

So the total attempt in this section could be about 22 questions and with about 80% accuracy one can score 18+ comfortably in this section.


SECTION IV: READING COMPREHENSION AND ENGLISH USAGE

This was again a section of moderate difficulty level. Let us take a closer look at this section!
Total no. of Questions: 40
No. of RC passages: 5
Questions from RC passages: 20
Questions from EU: 20

Analysis of English Usage:

 

Types of Qs

No. of Qs

Difficulty level

Para jumbled

4

Average

Ward Analogies

4

Average

Sentence Corrections

4

Difficult

Idioms and phrases

4

Average

Fill in the blanks

4

Average

RC Passages & Questions

Passages

No. of Qs

Difficulty level

Financial Inclusions and Banking systems

4

Difficult

Water Crisis and Remedies

4

Average

Air traffic control

5

Average

Resource utilizations in organization

3

Difficult

Organization and learning

4

Difficult

 

Once again RC could have given a decent score. Also vocabulary questions were very good. So both these together would fetch you a great score.

 

An attempt of 20 questions with 75 % accuracy could have yielded a possible score of 15+ in 35 minutes.


SECTION V: General Awareness section

In jumbled paper appears these questions appear as breather in between and could be attempted in passing looks with out putting in serious effort.

So we can sum this analysis as:

Expected Score (excluding GK)

Expected percentile

80 +

99 percentile

75-80

95 percentile

68-75

90 percentile


All the best!!
Career Launcher Team


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