May 2008 MAT Analysis

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In May 2008 MAT paper, Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability, Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation sections were all of average difficulty level, having quite a few questions in each section that could be easily managed.

Executive Summary:
The basic sequence of section with possible attempts was as follows:

Section

No. of Questions

Possible Attempts

Time Required

Expected Score
Reasoning

40

19

35

15 +
QA

40

21

35

17 +
DI and DS

40

22

35

18 +
G.A.

40

8

10

 6 +
Language

40

20

35

15 +

Total

200

90

150

65 + (excluding GK)

SECTION I: LOGICAL REASONING:
This has been the scoring area for many students in the recent MAT papers. The questions can be broadly classified as:

Analytical Reasoning

These were mixed bag questions with broad breakup as under:

Type No of Questions Level of Difficulty
Direction Sense 3 Easy
Blood Relationship 2 Easy
Misc (single questions) 5 Easy
Data Arrangement 7 (2 sets) Average
Logical Reasoning

The broader breakup of this section was as follows:

Type No of Questions Level of Difficulty
Critical reasoning 4 Difficult
Cause Effect relationship 3 Average
Statement Arguments 4 Average
Statement Conclusions 4 Easy-Average
Statement Assumptions 4 Easy
Courses of Action 4 Easy-Average

SECTION II: QUANTITATIVE ABILITY
This section was good for students to enhance there scores. All time favorite arithmetic was very prominent. The topic wise break up of the questions was as follows:

Topic No. of Questions Level of Difficulty
Percentages 3 Easy-Average
Ratio n proportion 9 Easy
Averages 3 Easy
Time Speed Distance 5 Easy-Average
Time n Work 3 Easy-Average
Geometry 1
Mensuration 4 Easy
Trigonometry 2 Easy
Clocks Calenders 4 Easy
Permutations and Probability 4 Average
Number System and Misc 2 Average

SECTION III: DATA INTERPRETATION
This was a easier section as compared to last 2 MAT’s. The easy part was DS and Quantitative Comparison questions. The summary was as under:

Type No. of Quest

Difficulty Level
Tables based set

4 (1 set)

Average
Traingular graph

4 (1 set)

Easy
Bar graph

8(2 sets)

Average-Difficult
Pie chart

4 (1 set)

Average-Difficult
Multiple Line graph

3 ( 1 set)

Average-Difficult
Caselet

5 ( 1 set)

Average
Data Sufficiency

6

Easy
Quantitative Comparison

6

Easy

SECTION IV: READING COMPREHENSION AND ENGLISH USAGE
This was again a section of moderate difficulty level. Let us take a closer look at this section!

* Total no. of Questions: 40
* No. of RC passages: 5
* Questions from RC passages: 20
* Questions from EU: 20
Analysis of English Usage:

No. of Qs

Difficulty level

Para jumbled

4

Average

Ward Analogies

4

Average

Sentence Corrections

4

Difficult

Idioms and phrases

4

Average

Fill in the blanks

4

Average

RC Passages & Questions:

Passages

No. of Qs

Difficulty level

Financial Inclusions and Banking systems

4

Difficult
Water Crisis and Remedies

4

Average
Air traffic control

5

Average
Resource utilizations in organization

3

Difficult
Organization and learning

4

Difficult

SECTION V: General Awareness section
In jumbled paper appears these questions appear as breather in between and could be attempted in passing looks with out putting in serious effort.

So we can sum this analysis as:

Expected Score (excluding GK) Expected percentile
80 + 99 percentile
75-80 95 percentile
68-75 90 percentile


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