The overall difficulty level of the exam was marginally lower than last year’s test mainly due to an easier Verbal section and a slightly easier Quant section. A well-prepared candidate with good command on vocabulary, reading speed could have attempted around 84 questions. This attempt can be considered a good attempt in this paper. A score of around 76 can be considered as an ideal score for a general category student.

English Proficiency-

This section comprised 30 questions, out of 20 questions were on verbal ability, and 10 questions on Reading Comprehension.

Reading Comprehension:

The RC area had two passages with a total of 10 questions out of which 5 were easy and 5 were of medium difficulty. Most of the questions were inference based.

Verbal Ability and Vocabulary:

The 20 questions in the VA/ Vocab/ Grammar areas were of moderate difficulty level.

A good score for this section would be 25-26. A good student would have been able to tackle all questions within 40 minutes.

Mathematical and Logical Reasoning:

The overall difficulty level of the section was easy. The quant-based question was easy and the data interpretation questions were a bit lengthy.

One should have ideally solved at least 26-27 questions correctly and marked the answers to the remaining, as there was no negative marking.

General Awareness:

This section comprised of 20 easy questions, 12 medium questions and 8 difficult questions.

A score of 20-23 would be a good benchmark. Attempting all GA questions would not have taken more than 20 minutes.

The topic-wise break-up of the questions across different sections are as follows: –