ATMA 2020 Exam Analysis

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ATMA or AIMS Test for Management Admissions is a national level MBA entrance exam conducted by AIMS i.e. Association of Indian Management School. ATMA exam is scheduled to be held 4-5 times in a year and is accepted by several top B-schools of India.

ATMA entrance exam is a 3-hour Computer Based Test and consists of 3 sections, namely, Quantitative Skills, Analytical Reasoning Skills, and Verbal Skills. Each of these sections is further divided into 2 sub sections, making it a total of 6 sections. For every correct answer candidate scores +1 and for every wrong answer 0.25 is deducted.

In this article, we have analyzed ATMA 2020 paper in detail. This will help MBA aspirants to gain deeper insights about ATMA exam pattern. This analysis provides an estimate the overall and sectional level of difficulty, ATMA Syllabus, topic wise distribution of questions, expected score for percentiles and do ability of questions. The below mentioned table shows an overview of ATMA 2020 paper: –

ATMA 2020 Overview-

Sections	Score Expected for 90+ Percentile	Difficulty Level
Verbal Ability- I	18-20	Moderate
Verbal Ability- II	18-20	Moderate
Analytical Reasoning- I	21-23	Moderate
Analytical reasoning- II	20-22	Moderate to difficult
Quantitative Ability- I	15-18	Moderate to difficult
Quantitative Ability- II	16-18	Difficult

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ATMA 2020 Exam Pattern Analysis:

The section wise questions pattern and difficulty in ATMA 2020 is as follows:

Verbal Ability I and II:

This section in ATMA 2020 comprised of 5 RC passages with 6 questions each that were easy to moderate. Jumbled paragraphs and fill in the blanks also formed an important part of the section with 5 questions each and an easy to moderate level. The overall section was moderate as the level of the antonyms and sentence correction was tough.

Topics	Number of Questions	Doable Questions	Difficulty
Reading Comprehension	30	27	Easy to Moderate
Errors in sentence formation	5	2	Difficult
Fill in the blanks with correct vocabulary word	5	4	Moderate
Summary	6	5	Moderate
One-word substitution	4	3	Moderate
Jumbled Paragraphs	4	2	Moderate
Phrases and Idioms substitution by words	6	3	Moderate to difficult

Analytical section I and II:

Analytical Section of ATMA 2020 was overall moderately difficult. Section I comprised of questions from critical reasoning, arrangements, statement inference, statement conclusions and data sufficiency while section II was made up majorly of coding-decoding and strengthen and weaken arguments. An attempt of 43-44 questions with an accuracy of 90% was considered to be a good attempt.

Topics	Number of Questions	Doable Questions	Difficulty
Coding Decoding	5	4	Moderate
Deductions	6	5	Moderate
Seating Arrangement -Circular	5	4	Moderate
Data Sufficiency	5	4	Moderate
Input-Output	5	3	Moderate
Ranking	4	2	Moderate
Course of Action	5	3	Moderate
Strong and Weak Arguments	5	4	Moderate
Inferences	4	3	Moderate
Cause and Effect	5	3	Moderate
Distribution	5	4	Moderate
Statement & Conclusions	6	4	Moderate

Quantitative Ability I and II:

The level of difficulty of quants section in ATMA 2020 was moderate to difficult. Candidates considered this section as time consuming and lengthy. With a 90% accuracy, if a candidate attempted 43-45 questions, it could be termed as a good attempt. Data Interpretation portion formed a major part of the section with 17 questions in total and a moderate difficulty level. Other major topics were modern math, numbers and algebra.

Topics	Number of Questions	Doable Questions	Difficulty
Time & Work, Pipes and Cisterns	2	2	Moderate
Percentages, Profit, Loss, Partnership	5	3	Moderate
Simple Equations, Ratio, Proportion and Variation	5	4	Moderate
Time & Distance, Boats and Streams	4	3	Moderate
Geometry & Mensuration	2	1	Moderate to difficult
Simple Interest, Compound Interest	2	1	Moderate to difficult
Averages, Mixtures and Alligations	2	1	Moderate
Numbers, Indices & Surds	2	–	Moderate
Charts + Cases (Data Interpretation)	14	11	Moderate to difficult
Permutation and Combinations, Probability	12	10	Moderate to difficult
Quantitative Comparison	5	3	Moderate
Number Series	5	3	Moderate

CONCLUSION:

As per the above analysis, the overall difficulty of questions in ATMA 2020 was moderate to difficult. In verbal section, the questions were mainly direct and easy. A score of 32-36 can be considered a good score in this section. While, quants seemed to be lengthy and had a few difficult questions, a score of 37-39 is a decent score. In analytical reasoning, a score of 30-32 is considered a good score. Overall, a score of 110-120 could help a student get admission in college of his or her choice.