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Exam pattern of NMAT 2020 (Revised)
|
Section |
Number of Questions |
Allotted Time |
|
Language Skills |
36 |
28 minutes |
|
Quantitative Skills |
36 |
52 minutes |
|
Logical Reasoning |
36 |
40 minutes |
|
Total |
108 questions |
120 minutes |
NMAT Logical Reasoning section consists of:
- Verbal Reasoning
- Non Verbal reasoning or Analytical Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning: Important topics to be prepared.
- Course of Action
- Strong Arguments
- Implicit Assumptions
- Inference based questions
- Strong/Weak Arguments
Critical Reasoning questions: Students need to understand the meaning of the term “Inference” nicely and one should attempt some questions based on critical reasoning to have a better understanding of the type of questions asked.
Tips for Critical Reasoning in NMAT:
- Identify the conclusion. The conclusion does not necessarily come at the end of the text; it may come somewhere in the middle or even at the beginning. Be alert to clues in the text that an argument follows logically from another statement or statements in the text.
- Determine exactly what each question asks. You might find it helpful to read the question first, before reading the material on which it is based; don’t assume that you know what you will be asked about an argument. An argument may have obvious flaws, and one question may ask you to detect them. Other questions may direct you to select the one answer choice that does NOT describe a flaw in the argument.
- Read all the answer choices carefully. Do not assume that a given answer is the best without first reading all the choices.
Non-Verbal Reasoning: Important topics to be prepared:
Overall the level of difficulty of logical reasoning questions varies from easy to moderate. The question based on alpha-numeric series and coding can be put into the easy category, whereas the questions on Syllogism and analytical reasoning can be put into the medium category. To increase your speed and accuracy in this section, it is important that you do sufficient practice of all types of reasoning questions. Though all areas of reasoning need to be covered, a careful study of the previous papers reveals that some topics are more important than the others.
Some tips for the nonverbal reasoning section:
- Revise the topics you are confident in. This will help you achieve good attempts.
- Visualize the problem in your head. Draw a rough diagram, grids or tables based on the information given.
- In Data Analysis questions, it is useful to eliminate not possible answer choices to help with the elimination process.
- Read carefully: Read the entire problem or situation carefully as sometimes in a hurry we might miss some important points.
- You should focus on one topic at a time, even though there might seem to be an overlap of topics, go one by one.
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