Last year and Leak CAT comparison acc to me :
1) VA & RC - Def easier but I think its hard to actually "max" this section. Those who did well last year got 32+ and this time I think maybe 35. But thats about it. I agree that a score of 40+ last year was very difficult and this time wouldnt raise an eyebrow about your alleged links with Ranjit Don
2) QA - Def tougher. Realize that tough questions also throw students off balance and they endup goofing even easier questions. Last year 16 gave you about 93%ile enough for a cut-off, this time I think it might be 13.
3) DI - Def. a lot easier, but there were a few sets interspersed which were tricky. To add to it, there is also the 99-CAT repeat questions, for junta who had solved it, it was a piece of calk, for others it was not something so easily crackable. Last year the cutoff was around 18-19 (v. difficult to say since almost everyone had a score in this range). This time maybe a marginal improvement to 21.
Thus, I think the cutoffs would remain around the same, plus minus a few and the overall cutoffs too wouldnt vary much. But what it does provide us is with a more distributed junta in the 70-90 range. Last year it sort of tapered off with 75, with very, very few people scoring over it. But this time its more balanced with a lot of junta scoring in that range. This means that the distribution load is taken off the 62-67 bracket is taken off (last year almost everyone with 99+%ile was in this range).
Just my observations on the apparent anomoly that PagalGuy pointed out.
Arun