Sections 1 and 5: Analytical Reasoning:

There were 2 sections on analytical reasoning with 30 questions each. Both the sections had similar types of questions. As usual, this section included a mixture of Verbal Reasoning and Logical Reasoning questions. There were around 18 Verbal Reasoning questions and 12 Logical Reasoning questions in each of the sections.Sections 1 had questions on Critical Reasoning, Course of Action, Statement-Inference, Strong/Weak Arguments, Statement-Conclusion, Arrangements, Syllogisms and Data sufficiency.Section 2 had questions on all the above mentioned topics and included some Coding-decoding and Strengthen/Weaken arguments as well.

A good attempt in these sections would be a total of 42-43 questions with 90% accuracy.

Sections 3 and 6: Quantitative Skills

There were two sections on Quantitative Ability with 30 questions each. Both the sections of Quantitative Ability had similar types of questions.Section 3 was dominated by questions on Arithmetic and numbers. The level of difficulty of section 3 was moderate.Section 6 was dominated by the questions on Geometry-based questions and DI. Most questions were of moderatedifficulty level. There were three sets with total 5 questions on DI in this section.

A good attempt in these sections would be a total of 41-42 questions with 80-90% accuracy.

Sections 2 and 4: Verbal Skills

There were 2 sections on Verbal Ability with 30 questions each. There were questions on Grammar, Jumbled Paragraphs, Fill in the Blanks, Correct Statement, Cloze, Part of sentence with error, Incorrect word/phrase , Main Idea, Sentence starters,and Reading Comprehension passages with 6 questions (three of them were vocabulary-based and all were simple).

A good attempt would be 41-42 questions with 90% accuracy.

The analysis of each of the sections is given below.

Sections 1 and 2: Analytical Reasoning

There were 2 sections on analytical reasoning with 30 questions each. Both the sections had similar types of questions. As usual, this section included a mixture of Verbal Reasoning and Logical Reasoning questions.

Sections 1 had questions on Arrangements, Analogies, Puzzles, Syllogisms and Data sufficiency.

• Verbal Reasoning questions in section I included 1 question on Course of Action ,3 Analogies questions ,3 Syllogisms questions ,3 Probably/Definitely True/False questions, 2 Statement/Conclusion questions, 2 Statement/Inference questions and 2 Statement Assumption question.

Section 2 had questions on all the above-mentioned topics and included some Visual Reasoning questions as well.

• Verbal Reasoning questions in section II included 4 Statement/Conclusion questions 1 Probably/Definitely True/False question, 2 Implicit meaning questions, 4 Statement/Inference questions, 3 Analogies and 4 Syllogisms.Around 6 questions were on matching the question string with the options.

The level of difficulty of both sections was easy to medium.

Sections 3 and 4: Quantitative Ability

There were two sections on Quantitative Ability with 30 questions each. Both the sections of Quantitative Ability had similar types of questions.

Section 3 was dominated by questions on Arithmetic. The level of difficulty of section 3 was easy-moderate.

Section 4 was dominated by the questions on Numbers. Most questions were easy to moderate.

There were two sets with total 6 questions on Data Interpretation, one in each section.

Sections 5 and 6: Verbal Ability

There were 2 sections on Verbal Ability with 30 questions each. There were more questions on Grammar, there was only one RC passage and there were no Jumbled Paragraphs.

Section 5

• There were 17 Fill in the Blanks. About half of them were vocabulary-based few were on tense forms and the rest were grammar based (testing knowledge of prepositions, articles, determiners and verbs).
• There were 2 questions on synonyms, 4 on Correct Statement and 1 on Incorrect Statement.There was 1 Reading Comprehension passage with 6 questions (three of them were vocabulary-based and all were simple).The passage was of about 700-800 words and it was of moderate difficulty level.The topic was from the book ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman.
• However, apart from the passage, this section was quite easy and a student could have attempted around 25 questions (in about 25 minutes) with 90% accuracy.

Section 6

• There were 6 questions on synonyms, 6 on Correct Statement and 2 on Incorrect Statement. There were 16 Fill in the Blanks based on prepositions, tense forms of verbs and articles which were easy.
• A good attempt would be 24 -25 questions with 90% accuracy, in 20 minutes