Section 2: Decision Making

Section 2: Decision Making

There were 21 questions in this section, from seven sets - Two sets of two questions each, two sets of four questions each and three sets of three questions each.

Description of set No. of questions Comments
1) Set on Limo cars launched in China, not yet launched in India 2 One question of ranking of strategies and one direct course of action question.
2) Set on HR manager’s role in HR department 4 One direct action step question. Three questions with four options to be arranged in decreasing order of effectiveness
3) Set on Sanchit Hospitals that wanted good doctors to mentor others 3 All three questions had five options, out of which one was correct (i.e. no ranking of statements)
4) Set on Icecream Franchisees to be started 4 All four questions had five options, out of which one was correct (i.e. no ranking of statements)
5) Set on imposition of Drug Testing Code (DTC) on Racket players 3 One question had additional data and was followed by 5 choices. Two questions were based on the information in the main set and had five choices (i.e. no ranking of statements for these 3 questions also)
6) Set on budget utilization by PR department 2 Both questions had five options, out of which one was correct (i.e. no ranking of statements)
7) Set on a School where poor children were studying along with affluent children 3 The questions in this set had five choices and were doable.

The sets were simple and easy to comprehend. The easier part, however, ended there. The questions were subjective and the answers choices were not too easy to eliminate.

As compared to last year, this year’s DM section is a shade tougher, mainly for the reason that the questions that needed one to rank the statements had very close choices. Careful reading was required for all the sets to avoid mistakes.

By spending about 30 to 35 minutes one would be able to attempt about 15 questions with 80% accuracy.

We expect the cutoff in this section to be around 6-7.