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:

*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:

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:

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:

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:

RC Passages & Questions:

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:

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Career Launcher Team