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  MAT September 2007 Analysis
   
   
   
MAT September 2007 Analysis
 
   
  MAT 2007 Analysis  
 

Executive Summary

Time and again, there has been consensus that MAT has its own beauty. This time again it was able to maintain that. This year, in sync with earlier trends, the test comprised 200 questions to be solved in 150 minutes. All five sections were separate; whish is not usually the case. While there was 1 mark allotted for each correct answer, 1/4 negative mark was specified for every wrong answer.

On the whole, the test was SIMPLE and EASILY MANAGEABLE. As such, no benchmarks can be provided for MAT. We would like to suggest that if you have attempted approximately 130+ questions with at least 90% accuracy, you should be in a position to get calls from the institutes you applied to.

Salient Features:
Total Question: 200
Total Time: 150 minutes
Marking Scheme: 1 mark for each correct answer & ¼ negative for wrong answer
No. Of Options: 4


  
 
Section No. of Ques. Weigh-
-tage of Ques. 		Total Marks Suggested Time
Possible Attempts
Possible Score

Intelligence and Critical Reasoning

40

1

40

35

32

32

Mathematical Ability

40

1

40

35

35

35

Language Comprehension

40

1

40

35

25

25

Data Analysis & Data Sufficiency

40

1

40

35

32

32

Indian & Global Environment

40

-

Not
consi-dered

10

15

Not
considered

Total

200

 

800

150

132

 
 
     
 

Intelligence and Critical Reasoning

Section No. of Questions Level of Difficulty

Statement-Assumption

4

Average

Statement-Conclusion

4

Average

Blood-Relation

4

Easy

Series Type

4

Easy

Mathematical reasoning

8

Average

Analytical Reasoning

4 * 3 = 12

Easy

Strong-Weak Arguments

4

Average
 
     
 

Overview of Mathematical Ability (MA) Section

The math section of MAT is usually easy and this time too things were no different. Major emphasis was on topics like Percentages, SI/CI, Profit & Loss, Time, Speed & Distance and Mensuration in the paper. Besides this, other sections covered were: P&C, Probability, Set Theory etc.

Section No. of Questions

SI/CI, PLD, Percentage, Average

8

Ratio & Mixture

5

Time Speed Distance + Time & Work

9

Mensuration

5

P&C & Probability

4 + 3 = 7

Physics (Mechanics) Based

1

Height and Distance

4

SET Theory

1
 
     
 

Overview of Language Comprehension Section:
In the Language comprehension section there were 20 questions on Reading Comprehension based on 5 passages. Rest of the questions of this section were on English usage.

A Brief overview of this section is as follows:

Section No. of Questions Level of Difficulty

Reading Comprehension:

20

 

Passage 1:Financial integration of developing countries

4

Difficult

Passage 2:Sensation of art and memory

4

Moderate

Passage 3:Importance of Asia in European Union

4

Moderate

Passage 4:Perspective of Darwin, Marx and Freud

4

Moderate

Passage 5:Lithosphere

4

Easy

English Usage:

20

 
Fill in the blanks
Analogy
Replace the underlined part of a passage
Critical Reasoning
Para-jumbles

4
4
4

4
4

 

 Easy
Easy
Easy
 
Moderate 
Moderate

 
 
     
 

Overview of Data Interpretation and Sufficiency (DI & DS) Section

There were 32 questions, which were based on DI, 4 questions on DS and 4 questions were based on the comparison between two data sets.

DI questions were based on counting and a few basic calculations. Overall, this part was simple. The break up of the DI questions is as follows:

Section No. of Questions Level of Difficulty

Table (Hockey and Football game)

4

Simple

Table (Electricity generated and purchased)

4

Simple

Table (no. of TV units sold)

4

Easy

Table chart (Economic indices)

4

Easy

Table (Capacity and Utilisation %)

4

Easy

Table and Pie Chart mixed (Foreign and Domestic sales)

4

Easy

Line graph (Workers employed and no. of units shipped )

3

Easy

Pie chart (Exports and Imports from India)

4

Easy

Bar graph (Electricity generated and purchased)

3

Easy

Data Sufficiency (Arithmetic based)

5

Easy

Comparison b/w two columns (GRE Type)

5

Easy

Overview of Indian and Global Environment Section:

In this section majority of the 40 questions were related to current affairs. LIKE:

  1. What is IAEA?
  2. VAIO notebook is related to?
  3. Navratna status has been given to which company?
  4. World population day is on?
  5. From which country is Miss World 2007.
  6. McMohan line is between which countries?

With best wishes
Career Launcher Team

  
     
 

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