FMS 2007
Following the pattern of previous year FMS 2007 had 175 questions with 4 marks for each question and negative 1 for each wrong answer. If any thing had changed in the paper compared to last year then it was the level of difficulty to the dislike of many aspirants who must have thought to give their best try in the last big exam of this year. Few other changes were:
1.The number of questions in English section was reduced and compensated by questions from Data verification.
2. There were no questions from General Awareness and Business Awareness though it was mentioned in the brochure. (In the previous edition there was no question from these sections either)
3. The options were given in a new manner which was easy for eyes.
The only respite for students was that there was no section demarcation (as it was always with FMS). So, students had nothing to worry about the sectional cutoffs. Questions from favorite areas should have been given priority in selecting the questions. An ideal attempt should have been 105+ with 85% accuracy.
Paper Pattern
Time Allocated: 120 minutes
Number of Sections: 1
Number of questions: 175
Number of choices per question: 4
Correct answer per question: 1
Marks allocated to each question: 4
Negative mark per each wrong answer: -1
Expected Cutoff:
305 - 325 for Full Time MBA program.
280 - 300 for MBA(MS) Program.
Quants: ( No. of questions: 49 , Level of Difficulty: Moderate)
The questions in this sections were in two extremes: too easy or very tough. Questions should have been selected properly in this section for getting a good score. There were many basic fundamental questions which could have been cracked in seconds at the same there were few tough questions which should have been left untouched. With 30 minutes one could have easily scored 80+ in this section.
Topics Covered: all the topics were covered - Sets, Number System, Complex Numbers, Inequalities, SI/CI /P&L , Ratio Proportion/Mixture , TSD/work , Geometry/Mensuration , Permutation and Combination, Coordinate Geometry, Linear and Quadratic Equation, Logarithm.
Sections with higher number of questions: Linear and Quadratic Equation, Logarithm, Complex Numbers.
Data Interpretaion: (No. of questions: 10, Level of Difficulty: Easy)
There were two easy DI sets with 5 questions each (one set on pie-chart and the other one on bar graph). The questions were straight-forward requiring minimal calculation. 10 out of 10 were easily achievable in this section.
EU & RC: (No. of questions: 36 + 21, Level of Difficulty: Moderate to Tough)
There were 36 questions on reading comprehension distributed over 5 passages. The passages were lengthy (680 - 1100+ words) but all had more than 6 questions to answer except one (number of questions on each rc : 6 , 7, 7, 8, 8). There were few questions with "None of the above" and "All of the above" options and that would have taken few extra seconds in reading all the options.
Topics of RC : HIV/AIDS , Terrorism , 9/11 , Arthur Andersen's and the Enron scandal, Women empowerment, Money lending
Questions on English Usage were rather easy and students with good vocab could have easily scored more than 50 in this section. Questions were asked on
Homonyms,Synonyms and Antonyms
Fill in Blanks
Analogies and Grammer
Reasoning: (No. of questions: 59 , Level of Difficulty: Tough)
This was the toughest section in the whole paper. Questions were lengthy and easy looking but once started there was a good chance of making a mess around it. Logical reasoning questions should have been attempted first as the questions on Analytical were complex and tough to crack. A score 90+ in this section can be considered as good.
Reasoning questions will be published on this site.
CAT 2006
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Common Admission Test (CAT 2006) – Exam Date November 19, 2006
The changes in CAT 2006
(i) Number of Questions reduced to 75.
(ii) All the questions are of equal marks
(iii) The negative mark is 1/4th.
(iv) No of options for each question is increased to 5 forms the traditional 4.
(v) Time limit is increased to 2hr 30 mins.
CAT 2006 is over. As expected it has many surprised packages but the biggest surprise was many question papers of set 444 has only 3 options to question number 30. One more reason for IIMs to thinks about out scouring CAT exam.
Mathematics section was the easiest compared to the rest two. One could have easily attempted more than 15 questions. The questions from number system were quite easy and in CAT 2005 - question of those standards were given 1 mark. DI was not as tough as it was last year but English section was awful esp. the RC section though one passage on Communism was interesting to read and the questions were uncomplicated.
It is too early to say about the cutoffs but it should be something like 35-40 for Quants , 34-38 in DI and 28-32 in English. An overall score of 115+ should be enough to get one IIM call.
After getting the feedback from students we ‘ll publish a detailed analysis.
CUT OFFS
DI : 34-38
EU/RC : 28-32
Maths : 35-40
Overall : 115
IIFT 2006
IIFT 2006 - Exam Date November 26, 2006
Get the answers of IIFT 2006
A different date, a different place and a different exam but the experience was same as it was on CAT day - A tough paper with many surprises. If you have not performed well then do not worry much as the case is same with all.
Few might argue that this years IIFT was tougher than CAT and they are not wrong considering the fact that the number of correct answers were not limited to one. In CAT all the questions had only correct answer but in IIFT there were many questions for which students had to find out all the correct answers. That requires not only reading all the questions but also reading all the available answers and that's both confusing and time consuming.
There were few questions with only one answer but those questions carried a negative mark of 1/3rd. To add all these worries IIFT had clearly mentioned that there 'll be Sectional cutoffs.
But the best thing about IIFT is that they call students in the ratio of 1: 8 (sometimes 1:12) for GD and Interview. So if you have done decently in the written exam start preparing for GD/PI.
QA Sections(No of question: 30 and Total Mark allocated : 28.5)
Most of the questions were from Algebra and Geometry. All the 13 questions in Section 1 were tough and students from science & engineering background could have attempted few. There were 17 questions in section2 and it was a bit easier compare to the first one. The cutoff is likely to be 4/5.
GK Section(No of question: 26 and Total Mark allocated : 22.1)
There were 26 questions in GK section with out any negative marks. The idea was to check student's knowledge in Business Awareness, General Awareness and on Current Affairs. The questions were from varied topics like history, civics, WTO, Noble Prize, constitution, geography, social issues and etc. The pattern was totally new to all and each question had more than one correct answer. The cutoff should not be more than 5.
VA & RC (No of question: 23 and Total Mark allocated: 22.4)
The RC section had two long passages with 4 questions each. Though the passages were long, the questions were easier than those in VA section. The questions in VA had multiple correct answers and that should have restricted students in attempting many questions in VA section. The cutoff is likely to be 4/5.
DI & Reasoning(No of question: 27 and Total Mark allocated : 27)
It was the toughest section. There were 15 questions in section 1 and 12 in section 2 and the total marks allocated for this section was 27. In DI there were 4 sets with answers in statement form making the questions very tough and time consuming. Cutoff is likely to be 4/5.
In total there were 106 questions for 100 marks and the overall cutoff for IIFT Delhi and Kolkata should be 19-20.
IIFT Delhi - 20
IIFT Kolkata -
GIFT - 16
Sydenham - 14
IRMA 2006
IRMA 2006 - Exam date November 26, 2006
No Surprises, No pattern change & Easy questions. After the fiasco of CAT, IRMA06 was reliving to all. IRMA had always followed a pattern (which is very similar to bank PO and Indian railway exams rather than any main stream MBA entrance exam).
The paper had 200 questions distributed among four sections - Quant + DI, English Usage, Reasoning and General Awareness with emphasis on social issues. The time limit was 2 hr and each question carried a negative mark of -1/4. The paper was easy so the cutoff 'll be in higher side.
Paper Pattern
Time Allocated: 2 Hrs
Number of Sections: 4
Number of questions: 200
Number of choices per question: 5
Correct answer per question: 1
Marks allocated to each question: Not mentioned
Negative mark per each wrong answer: -1/4th of the mark allocated to the question
Expected Cutoff: 90+ for IRMA and 75+ for XIMB.
Quant + DI
No. Of questions: 50, Expected Cutoff: 22+
There were 25 questions from quantitative ability, 20 from Data Interpretation and 5 from Data sufficiency. All the questions were of same level of difficulty and that can be categorized as easy to moderate. There were 5 questions on series which were a bit tough compared to the rest. With a time allocation of 30-35 minutes one could have easily attempted that many numbers of questions. Though the paper had 5 options for each question, getting an accuracy level of 85-90 was not tough in this section.
English Usage
No. Of questions: 40, Expected Cutoff: 23+
There was only one passage on Transgenic Biotechnology with 15 questions. The questions were so easy that one could have attempted 5 questions on synonym and antonym with out reading the passage; rest 10 questions were also direct and easy. The jumbled paragraph was quite a bit different but easy and it had 5 questions.
There were 10 questions on fill in the blanks and 10 on sentence correction. The sentence correction questions were primarily on tense, prepositions, conjunctions and etc. Fill in the blank questions were given in a Para graph format to test the vocabulary knowledge.
Reasoning
No. Of questions: 50, Expected Cutoff: 28+
Many questions on reasoning section were of CAT level. The questions were varied in nature.
1 set on Odd man out and analogies with 5 questions - Easy.
1 set of reasoning based data sufficiency with 5 questions - sitters
1 set of Analytical reasoning with 5 questions - Average
1 set on Strong and weak argument with 5 questions - time consuming but easy
1 set on Inference based Critical reasoning with 7 questions - time consuming and moderate diff.
1 set on Definitely True/Probably True with 7 questions - easy.
1 set on Cause & effect with 5 questions - Average
1 set on which statement follows from Para with 5 questions - Average
1 set on Coding/decoding with 5 questions - sitters
General Awareness
No. Of questions: 60, Expected Cutoff: 17+
The questions were asked from many different field - agriculture, social sciences, UN , Government policies , WTO , G-8 summit , ASEAN countries , Indian GDP , Home Loan , Foreign exchange , NABARD , SAARC , FIFA world cup , Green Revolution , White Revolution , Export /Import , Senior Citizens
JMET 2006
JMET on Sunday - Exam Date December 10, 2006.
JMET 2006 had 150 questions distributed among 4 sections - Quant, EU, DI and Reasoning. There was no surprise element in the paper and it had plethora of easy questions to attempt. The only change in the paper with compare to its previous edition is the level of difficulty in quant section, which has reduced a bit in 2006 paper.
Paper Pattern
Time Allocated: 120 minutes
Number of Sections: 4
Number of questions: 150
Number of choices per question: 4
Correct answer per question: 1
Marks allocated to each question: 1
Negative mark per each wrong answer: -1/4
Expected Cutoff:
Som-IITB: 66+
IIT Delhi: 62+
Other IITs/IscB: 60+
IIT Roorke: 48+
ABV-IIITM : 35+
Quant
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 6+
Difficulty level compare to CAT : Same, Difficulty level compare to JMET 2005: a bit easy
In JMET this section always looks like an engineering entrance exam rather than a typical mba entrance exam. There was no exception this year but there were plenty of easy questions from arithmetic. By spending 30 minutes in this section one could have easily scored more than 8 with out attempting the questions from higher mathematics. Students good in math could have done better.
English Usage
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 20+
Difficulty level compare to CAT: 50% of CAT 2006
Difficulty level compare to JMET 2005: Tougher than 2005.
This year English section was a bit difficult in comparison to previous papers. The paper was designed to check students comprehensive skills than any thing else and those who are good in reading comprehension could have done exceptionally well in this paper. There were 6 small passages, each containing 3-4 questions, which were not that difficult. Rest of the section was filled with questions from Antonyms, Analogies and grammatical errors.
Reasoning
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 16+
There were few questions on DS in this section, which were easy but the section was full of mental tiring analytical reasoning questions. Questions should have been selected properly in this section to get a decent score. An attempt of 28 with 16+ score can be considered as good.
Data Interpretation
No. Of questions: 30, Good Score: 16+
Difficulty level compare to CAT: 30-40% difficult, Difficulty level compare to JMET 2005: almost same
There were only 4 DI sets with questions from bar graphs, table and line graph. This was the easiest and highest scoring section. There were only 30 questions but one could have easily scored more than 20 just by spending 22-26 minutes in this section.
MAT 2006 December
MAT 2006 December - Exam Date 3rd December , 2006.
MAT is considered to be the easiest among all the entrance exams held in India. But this year it was not the case. Like CAT and IIFT the pattern of the paper was different though it was not as tough as any of them but the questions were difficult than those in IRMA.
The test comprised of 200 questions distributed equally among 5 sections – Maths , English Usage, Data Interpretation/Data Sufficiency, Reasoning and General Awareness. Though GA score is not considered while calculating the final percentile, many institutes does consider it while calling students for Group Discussion and Interview.
Paper Pattern
Time Allocated: 2 Hrs 30 minutes
Number of Sections: 5
Number of questions: 200
Number of choices per question: 4
Correct answer per question: 1
Marks allocated to each question: 1
Negative mark per each wrong answer: -1/4
Expected Percentiles:
For 99+ percentile : 105-108
For 97+ percentile : 95+ score
Mathematics
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 21+
Mathematics scetions was a bit easy. 30+ score was easily achievable with in that much of minutes of time. The topics from which questions were asked : Time - Speed , Distance , Simple/Compound Interest , Mensuration , Series , Mixture , Set theory and etc.
English Usage
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 22+
As it was in CAT - an easy math section and a tough english section. The questions on para-jumble and paragraph completion were confusing and time taking but the rest of the section was full of easy questions on Synonyms , antonyms , grammer and fill in the blanks.
Reasoning
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 16+
The standard of this section was also moderate-high , esp. the two caslets with 9 questions were unattemptable within the given time constraint and students should have avoided those two sets. With proper selection one should have attempted 25-28 questions in this section.
DI/DS
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 20+
There were 17 questions on DS and most of them were easy.
DI section had all the varities - Table , Line Graph , Pie Chart and Caselet. Though the questions were easy-moderate, all were time consuming.
General Awareness
No. Of questions: 40, Good Score: 16+
This section was easy and to the surprise very piculiar. Till the last exam ,most of the questions were current events but this time most of the questions were based on simple economics and business ideas.
All the questions are published in our General Awareness section in GA021, GA022 and GA023
NMAT 2006
NMAT 2006 - Exam date December 10th, 2006
The aim of the paper was to spread Feel Good Factor. The paper was like what CAT used to be in early 90s " a test of speed and question selection". The job was to pick up all the sitters/easy among few moderate/difficult questions.
Paper Pattern
Time Allocated: 150 minutes
Number of Sections: 5
Number of questions: 200
Number of choices per question: 4
Correct answer per question: 1
Marks allocated to each question: 1
Negative mark per each wrong answer: -1/4
Expected Cutoff: 85-88
Quants : ( No. of questions: 40 , Expected Cutoff:16+)
This section was biased towards students from science background. There were 10 questions from physics related topics (like Acceleration, Retardation etc), though the questions were not that tough. But a student with prior knowledge could have gone through those questions in whisker saving time for the rest. This section was not properly balanced (in the scenes that there were too many questions from SI/CI/P&L) as it was last year. Overall the section was easy and high scoring. Many might have crossed 25+ without much difficulty.
Topics Covered: all the topics were covered - Number System , SI/CI /P&L , Ratio Proportion/Mixture , TSD/work , Geometry/Mensuration , P&C , Sets
English Usage: (No. of questions: 40, Expected Cutoff: 18+)
You can't get anything as easy as this section. The paper had emphasized more on grammar and word power knowledge than CAT type reasoning & comprehension skills. A score of 30+ was easily achievable.
Question Areas: Antonyms/Synonyms, Idioms, Grammar, Analogy, Jumbled paragraph, fill in the blanks and Reading Comprehension.
DI & DS: (No. of questions: 40, Expected Cutoff: 14+)
It was not a cake walk section like the rest of the paper. There were 18 questions on graph which would have required lengthy calculations but the questions on data sufficiency and data redundancy were easy-moderate.
Question Areas: line graph, Table, Pie chart, Bar graph, Data sufficiency & Data redundancy.
General Knowledge: (No. of questions: 40, Expected Cutoff: 14+)
This section was totally different from IRMA and IIFT. Most of the questions were from current happening around the world
Topics Covered: Politics, Current Affairs, Books & Authors
Reasoning (No. of questions: 40, Expected Cutoff: 10+)
This was the toughest section in the paper and the questions were up to CAT level.
Question Areas: Critical Reasoning, puzzles, Inferences, Number Series, Situational based , Matrix based and Code based , Blood Relations
SNAP 2006
SNAP 2006 - Exam Date December 17, 2006.
The paper was as expected. No surprise, No format Change. The questions were easy and would required only basic knowledge of mathematics and English. The questions in quant/DI section were straight-forward in the sense that most of them were direct formula based without requiring much of logic. The only problem was the students were asked to use ball point pen for shading the ovals which was inconvenient for all.
Paper Pattern
Time Allocated: 120 minutes
Number of sections: 4
Time for each Section: No such constraint
Number of questions: 165
Total Marks allocated: 200
Number of choices per question: 4
Correct answer per question: 1
Marks allocated to each question: 2 for Reasoning and 1 for the rest
Negative mark per each wrong answer: -1/2 for reasoning and -1/4 for the rest.
Expected Cutoff:
SIBM: 90+
SCMHRD: 85+
SIIB: 75-80 for
SITM: 70-72
Quant & DI: (No. of questions: 50, Good score: 22+)
The questions in this section can be categorized as of easy-moderate level though it was not as easy as it was last year. With a good grasp of the fundamentals one could have easily scored more than 20. Most of the questions were direct and simple calculation based. Questions were well balanced and were asked from all the topics covered in quant section.
Topics Covered: all the topics were covered - Number System, Series, SI/CI /P&L, Ratio Proportion/Mixture, TSD/work, Geometry, P&C, Sets, Average, Probability, Clocks
DI: There were 20 questions distributed equally among 5 sets. Four questions from data sufficiency which were at best can be described as sitters , One pie chart , 2 tables and one miscellaneous on car and trucks.
Reasoning :(No. of questions: 35, Good score: 32+)
The questions in this section can be categorized as above average and it was the toughest section in the paper. Question selection should have been given of prime importance in this section.Visual based questions were new and must have surprised all. All the questions in this section carried 2 marks so an attempt of 22+ with a score of 32-35 can be considered as good.
Question Areas: Critical Reasoning: average+, puzzles: average, Coding-Decoding: sitters, Analytical: average, Visual: Tough, Inferences: average
English Usage:(No. of questions: 40, Good score: 25+)
Students with good grammar knowledge could have scored highly in this section. There were many grammar questions of an elementary level that included parts of speech and transformation of sentences. There were also many vocab based questions in the form of synonym/antonym and spelling correction. Reading comprehensive section was not that tough , passages were small and questions were easy. The best option was to attempt 2/3 RCs.
Question Areas: Antonyms/Synonyms, Idioms, Grammar, Analogy, Sentence Correction. Spelling Correction, Jumbled Paragraph , fill in the blanks and Reading Comprehension.
General Knowledge: (No. of questions: 40, Expected Cutoff: 20+)
This sections were from business and current happening around the world. This section would have required no special preparation than reading news paper
Topics Covered: Politics, Current Affairs, Business & General Gk Questions.