CAT4MBA

I did calculate it correctly and was getting a difference of 0.5

This is the difference between CAT and mocks. In CAT we ‘ll hardly get any such vague statements.

Q52. One can barely make a move within the oldest academic discipline without understanding its past. People who don't know its vast literature feel excluded from the import of any particular philosopher or problem. That kind of exclusion can be remedied by doing the requisite study — by catching up, so to speak, on a body of knowledge. But philosophy is more than just a body of knowledge; it is an ability to examine the structures of thought itself. Simon Blackburn calls that "conceptual engineering," in order to distinguish it from regular empirical investigation. The requirement makes philosophy unpopular in the same sense that higher mathematics is unpopular.

Q53.  The trouble is that parents are often scared of the wrong things and find it difficult to work out who to listen to. What they suggest is that we react more strongly to certain risks, even when the feared event is very unlikely to happen because of the presence of outrage. Quoting expert risk assessor, Peter Sandman, we take risk seriously because of the dread factor: "when hazard is high and outrage is low, people underreact. And when hazard is low and outrage is high, they overreact". The reaction to the sad news of Anna's death by drowning in the Daily Mail's coverage is not to analyse the nature of the risk presented by pools, but to stoke up outrage about the care system and link the death to the recent campaign on adoption targets. It may turn out that Anna's foster carers have themselves fallen short of the good enough parenting standard and that would, of course, be an outrage. But I would be surprised if it turned out that foster carers were statistically more likely to be responsible for children's deaths than either parents or swimming pools. In other words, generally speaking parents do not need to worry about death as a risk when a child is in foster care. None of which philosophical musing will be of any comfort to Anna's parents and my heart goes out to them

Q54. For me, as for a lot of middle class kids, getting into a good college was more or less the meaning of life when I was growing up. What was I? A student. To do that well meant to get good grades. Why did one have to get good grades? To get into a good college. And why did one want to do that? There seemed to be several reasons: you'd learn more, get better jobs, make more money. But it didn't matter exactly what the benefits would be. College was a bottleneck through which all your future prospects passed; everything would be better if you went to a better college.

Q55. As digital-storage capacities reach seemingly boundless proportions, however, some thinkers are becoming nervous about the unintended consequences of memory technology. Certainly Google's enormous reserves of user information, stored in dozens of secretive data centers across the world, and the literally photographic memory of the Internet Archive, which preserves billions of defunct Web pages for posterity, are enough to leave anyone rattled. New forms of memory are permanent and accessible from anywhere. As their reach grows, scholars are asking if now - perhaps for the first time in human history - we need to find ways to forget.

I think the cutoff shd me more than 95 +

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My score

Quant: 43

DI : 22 L

EU: 31

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Total : 96

The solution given is okey but an easier way to calculate the equation by putting

n=1 (u can take any other value).

It ‘ll take just couple seconds

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Sec 1: 32      Sec 2: 36      Sec 3 : 18

Total: 86

Last mock w/o any surprise.

Some how I do feel it’s going to be a similar paper in CAT07. Number question may rise to 90 or something. .

But yes I don’t feel there ‘ll be any question on FIJ. . Jumbled Paragraph should be in.

My scores:

Quants : 47

DI: 36

EU : 38

Total: 121

Quite satisfied. . Anyhow

Best of Luck Guys for next Sunday

 Best of luck to you all