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The CAT exam began today all over the country and after five years of the 60 question format, this was the first time the IIMs had put out a two section, 100 question format.<\/p>\n

While difficulty level is subjective, most students will find this paper much easier than any of the recent CAT exams.
\nQuant<\/b> was Easy. Most students will find this one of the easiest Quant papers in the last 15 years.
\nDI<\/b> was time consuming but definitely not difficult.
\nThe only section that could be classified as difficult was the LR<\/b> one which had 2 out of 4 sets which were difficult.
\nExpect cut-offs to be quite high, especially in Sec 1.<\/p>\n

Outside of the difficulty level, there were no surprises as such but widely expected topics such as Data Sufficiency, Phrasal Verbs, Fill in the Blanks & FIJ were all missing. Please note that this is only sharing one of the first slot experience and is possibly not representative of students’ within the in different slots. All students within the same slot got the same set of questions.<\/b><\/p>\n

A detailed analysis of the exam is provided below followed by the experience a student will go through before & during the exam. To practice for other MBA exams, click here for XAT | NMAT | SNAP | CMAT | MHCET | CAT\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Expected Cut-Offs:-\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Cut-off Score<\/td>\nPercentile<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
215+<\/td>\n99.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
176+<\/td>\n99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
139+<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
121+<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
96+<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note; These are estimates only and it is recommended that you do not use it as targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Section 1 Analysis:<\/b>\u00a0 Out of 50 questions, there were 34 questions on Quantitative ability and 16 on DI. Very similar to what was anticipated and given on the mock test of the IIM CAT. There were several sitters in the paper especially in Arithmetic and Numbers. DI had four sets with one on Tournaments. A serious candidate who spends 90 minutes here could have attempted 35+.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Section 2 Analysis:<\/b>\u00a0 Out of 50 questions, there were 16 questions on RC across four passages with the passages of 450-550 words. And there is no highlighting feature.<\/span><\/b> It is mentioned in the beginning of the exam itself that you will have RCs in four question blocks. Two of the RCs had only three questions together and the final question of each passage was isolated somewhere else in the paper. So do check for this before you believe you have completed your RC passage. There were very few specific detail questions and while many of them required a good understanding of the passages, they were easily doable. Logical Reasoning \u00a0had 16 questions across four sets. Surprising aspects was the low weight for pure Verbal ability topics such as Grammar, Fill in the Blanks and Vocab. CR had GMAT style questions on inferences and few on essence of short passages. There were 8 Parajumble questions with half of them being on sentence exclusion.<\/div>\n
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