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.
