CAT

• The overall difficulty level of VA RC Section of CAT 2017 was Easy.
• IMS students must have recalled SimCAT 14 when they saw the actual CAT. Not only in the format which is given below, CAT 2017 actually matched the difficulty level of SimCAT 14.
• The format was familiar.
• The VA-RC section was a replica of the CAT 2016 section in terms of question types. Grammar and Vocabulary questions were again conspicuous by their absence.
• RC had 3 passages with 6 questions each & 2 passages with 3 questions each- most of these questions were direct and easily solvable.
• IMS students have reported that as many as 22 questions were easy!
• The jumbled paragraph questions were, however, moderate to difficult.

Of the 10 VA questions, 7 were TITA and 3 were MCQs.
3 Out-of-context sentence – TITA
4 Paragraph Jumbles – TITA
*3 Paragraph summary – MCQs. (With negative Marks)*.
*The only difference from the 2016 CAT and the several IMS SimCATs, especially SimCAT 14.

SLOT 2 (CAT 2017 VA RC)

The pattern of Slot 2 VARC replicated the pattern and difficulty level of the first slot and more importantly that of 2016 CAT and that of SimCAT 14, barring the negative marks assigned to Summary questions.

It was possible to attempt 28 to 30 questions in the second slot which should give you a very competitive score.

• The DI-LR section had a total of 8 sets with 4 questions in each set. There were 4 sets Data Interpretation and 4 sets of Logical Reasoning. The sets on DI involved calculations as well as logic.
• Selection of the right sets to solve was key to a good performance in this section. One set on Data Interpretation involved easy calculations and two sets on Logical Reasoning involved easy arrangements. These sets must not have been missed.
• No Set was completely TITA - TITA questions were dispersed across individual sets. 4 sets were completely MCQ whereas the remaining 4 sets was a combination of TITA and MCQs ( 2 MCQ and 2 TITA). There were a total of 8 TITA questions

• A detailed description of the sets in this section is given below for your reference:

• A good student should have been able to attempt around 4 to 5 of these sets (16 -18 questions) in the given time with an accuracy of around 85-90%. The sets that must not have been missed were Set 3, 5 and Set 6.
• Students also reported that a number of sets had additional information pertaining to the last two questions (out of the 4 in the set), that made the set difficult to tackle.

• This section was easy and dominated by Arithmetic with 13 questions followed by Geometry, Algebra, and Modern Math with 5 to 8 questions each.
• There were 11 TITA questions this year - compared to last year when there were only 7
• If one went through the entire section, there were at least 12 to 14 sitters for the taking

• Many of the questions in this section tested elementary concepts. The detailed topic-wise listing of the questions (based on student inputs) is given below:

• It is worth noting that several questions in the section combined concepts from across the areas. For example, some questions combined Numbers and AP-GP. One can consider these questions as a part of either numbers or Modern Maths (AP-GP). We have considered such questions in the areas that predominantly involved that concept.

• A good student should have been able to solve 24 to 26 questions in the given time with 85-90% accuracy.