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  MAT 2006 Analysis
   
 


 
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MAT 2006 Analysis
 
   
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  Executive Summary  
 
MAT spared the aspirants from yet another round of surprise. This time also the test comprised of 200 questions, to be solved in 150 minutes. There was no demarcation between topical sections. The questions were all jumbled up. While there was 1 mark allotted for each correct answer, 1/4 negative mark was specified for each wrong Ans.

GK is not included while calculating the aggregate score. But some of the Institutes may look at your GK score while deciding the list of Interview Calls.

On the whole, the test was AVERAGE and MANAGEABLE but slightly tougher than the usual MAT Paper. 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 manage calls from most of the institutes you would have applied for.

 
 

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
 
  Overview:  
 
Section No. of Ques. Whtg/ Ques. Total Marks Sgted.
Time
Possible Attempts Possible Scores
Intelligence and Critical Reasoning 40
5 200

35

32

150

Mathmatical Ability 40
5 200

35

35

160

Language Comprehension 40
5 200

35

34

160

Data Analysis & Data Sufficiency 40
5 200

35

32

150

Indian & Global Environment 40
- Not
consi-
dered

10

20

Not
consi-
dered

Total 200   800 150 150 620+
 
 

 

 
  Intelligence and Critical Reasoning  
 
Section Number of Questions Level of Difficulty

Statement-Argument

5

Moderate

Statement-Conclusion

5

Moderate

Inference based-DefinitelyTrue/False

4

Moderate

Find the most logical statement

3

Moderate

Series +Coding & Decoding

6

Easy

Simple Reasoning based individual questions

5

Easy

2 Caselets

9

Difficult

Miscellaneous

3

Easy

 
     
  Overview of Mathematical Ability (MA) Section  
 

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

 
Section Number of Questions

SI/CI, PLD, Percentage

10

Ratio & Mixture

2

Time Speed Distance + Time & Work

7

Mensuration

4

P&C & Probability

4

Physics (Mechanics) Based

5

Logarithm

1

Series (AP/GP) & Progression

2

SET Theory

1

Others

4

     
  Overview of Language Comprehension Section:  
 

In the Language comprehension section there were 15 questions on Reading Comprehension based on 3 passages. Rest of the questions of this section was on English usage.

A Brief overview of this section is as follows:

 
     
 

Topics

No. of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Reading Comprehension:

15

 

Passage 1:Virtues/Wises

4

Difficult

Passage 2:Phonetics

6

Moderate (But Lengthy)

Passage 3:Expectation/Beliefs

6

Moderate

English Usage:

25

 

Fill in the blanks

Antonyms:
(i)  Subservient
(ii) Distraught
(iii) Myopic
(iv) Tenacious

Synonyms:

(i) Serendipity
(ii) Vitriolic
(iii) Puckish
(iv) Dapper

Finding the error
Para jumbles
Miscellaneous

4
4

 

 

4

 

 

5
4
4

Easy
Easy

 

 

Easy

 

 

Moderate
Moderate
Easy

 
     
 

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

 
 

There were 27 questions, which were based on DI and 13 questions on DS. This section was relatively tough.

DI questions were time consuming and they had variety of data to deal with. The break up of the DI questions is as follows:

 
     
 

Topics

No. of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Table (Rating/Units Sold)

5

Tough

Table (Income Tax)

4

Moderate

Table (Applied & qualified Students)

5

Moderate (Time Consuming)

Line Graph (Speed & Time)

4

Moderate

Table (4 optional Subject, 10 roll No.-TA, MBCA, YCA, DMBC)

5

Easy

Pie Chart (2 pie charts-% Break up of Revenue-Total revenue-1139200 millions, % break of Units-653610 units)

4

Moderate (Time Consuming)

 
     
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XAT

NMAT

SNAP

JMET

IIFT

CAT

IRMA

 
 
 
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