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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 16:29 | Written by Uday Patil |

CET 2009 - An Overview

Maharashtra CET, held on 15 February 2009, was easy but lengthy and time-consuming compared to last year’s test.
The Verbal Ability, Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension questions were very tricky because there were some new varieties. Even Logical Reasoning questions had some new formats. Data Interpretation questions were calculation intensive.
Some of the questions from Visual Reasoning were similar to the ones that appeared in the SIMCETs.

Overall Test Structure

Total Duration of the exam (minutes)	150 minutes
Total number of questions	200
Total Marks	200
Marks per question	1
Negative marking	No
Mode of marking the ovals	Black Ball Point Pen

Last Updated (Friday, 20 August 2010 09:41)

Thursday, 08 October 2009 23:48 | Written by Uday Patil |

MAT Analysis
The MAT held on September 6, 2009, contained a mixed bag of questions ranging from easy to difficult. There was sectional division, with a total of 5 sections and 40 questions per section.
The test booklets were of different series – A to M.
Overall Test Structure

Total Duration of the Exam Total Number of Questions	150 mins 200
Total Marks Marks Per Question Negative Marking Number of Sections Questions per Section	200 1 0.25 5 40
Sectional Timing	No
Mode of Marking the Ovals	HB Pencil

Last Updated (Sunday, 04 January 2009 18:42)

Saturday, 18 April 2009 12:24 | Written by Uday Patil |

CAT has traditionally been a Paper Based Test (PBT) with objective questions. The CAT consists of questions that evaluate a candidate's quantitative, verbal, logical and data interpretive abilities.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:49)

Saturday, 18 April 2009 12:24 | Written by Uday Patil |

XAT is a logic-intensive and reading-intensive paper. Though it resembles CAT, the types of questions in XAT are very different from CAT. Also, it has progressive negative marking (one fourth of a mark is deducted for the first six incorrect answers in each section and half a mark is deducted for each incorrect answer thereafter), which does not allow one to indulge in guessing.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 08 September 2009 16:43)

Saturday, 18 April 2009 12:24 | Written by Uday Patil |

There is no prescribed syllabus or format for this multiple choice 2-hour admission test. The previous admission tests usually comprised the following basic areas:

Last Updated (Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:49)

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