Section A : Verbal and Logical Ability

The Verbal and Logical Ability section was on the tougher side as usual. It tested not just the language but also the logic and analytical skills of the students. This section had a strong emphasis on critical reasoning skills and less emphasis on linguistic skills. The simpler VA questions from areas of vocab, figures of speech, and analogies were conspicuously absent.

Grammar in this section was on the easier side. The fill in the blank questions in particular were simple, one could easily score 3 marks with them straight away. The questions on italicized text replacement had two simple questions and a tricky one – choosing between 'income have shifted' and 'have been shifted', the presence of 'by' in the later part of the sentence makes the second option gramatically correct.

The RC passages were dense, and some of them both dense and long, with a clear focus on high level critical reasoning skills. The passage on 'intuitive measurement habit' had a couple of easy questions and a couple of moderately difficult questions ('central idea' and 'quick estimate is most useful in'), the passage on popper's scientific method had a mix of doable and difficult questions, while the passages on 'karma' and 'open society' were the most difficult of the lot. Overall, 2-3 questions could have been attempted amongst the RC questions.

PFQs were moderately difficult while a couple of logical reasoning based questions were on the easy side. 2-3 questions could have been attempted from these two question types.

7-8 questions correct answers should be good enough to get a 90 percentile.