CAT 2016 did not throw up any surprises wrt the paper format. The level of difficulty of the paper changed this year as compared to last year. While VARC continued to be easy, DILR was deceptive with easy looking sets that had difficult questions. Quant threw the biggest curve ball in terms of Level of difficulty and topic distribution. On first impressions, overall raw score of 155-160 should fetch a student a 99%ile, this year.
CAT 2016 Slot 2 did not throw up any surprises in comparison to Slot 1. While VARC continued to be easy, DILR was deceptive with easy looking sets that had difficult questions. Like Slot 1, Quant continued to be tricky. Overall DILR seems to have been slightly more difficult as compared to Slot 1 whereas Quant was slightly easier. On first impressions, an overall raw score of 155-160 should fetch a student a 99%ile, this year.