[07-Oct-07] Career Launcher Mock #9 Discussions

[buck_was]

ATB, Puys!

Statutory Warning: If you haven't taken this mock as yet, you are encouraged to read no further..
(The warning shall be dropped tomorrow)

The poll shall be up by 3pm tomorrow..

[dexter123]

Hi,

I have a couple of following doubts. It would be great if someone could help me out with these:

First:
Solution says that Naomi Broady can have ranking 10 or 11 with points 31 or 25. This is wrong, Naomi Broady can not have a rank 10 because if she has a rank 10, then there would not be any rank 11 which is already mentioned and therefore Naomi has to have rank 11 and the points as 25. This problem makes question 7 useless sine both Laura and Naomi now have same points. (right??)

Second:
For questions 8 and 9, the value of X can be 8 as well. 7 is when they win against 7 others. Now when they play amongst them (N, J and L), the decision could be following:

N/J -> 10/2
J/L -> 10/2
L/N -> 10/2

this means that they get maximum in 8 matches (since X has to be maximum) and therefore this leaves the answers to Q 8 and 9 useless again !! Please let me know if I am missing something here.

Thanks !

Dex

[amitajm87]

YEAH EVEN I WASTED A LOT OF TIME ON THAT SET MAN !!!!!!!!!!! the explanation they have provided is weird ( read abysmal )............ATTEMPTED 3 qs.. from this set got all wrong............

but 'll check again...........

pour in the expected cutoffs n scores for this mock puys.........

[prnv_jain]

dead right buddy
had exactly same problems sitting out dere....fed up of cl guys making mistakes i paper

Originally Posted by dexter123

Hi,

I have a couple of following doubts. It would be great if someone could help me out with these:

First:
Solution says that Naomi Broady can have ranking 10 or 11 with points 31 or 25. This is wrong, Naomi Broady can not have a rank 10 because if she has a rank 10, then there would not be any rank 11 which is already mentioned and therefore Naomi has to have rank 11 and the points as 25. This problem makes question 7 useless sine both Laura and Naomi now have same points. (right??)

Second:
For questions 8 and 9, the value of X can be 8 as well. 7 is when they win against 7 others. Now when they play amongst them (N, J and L), the decision could be following:

N/J -> 10/2
J/L -> 10/2
L/N -> 10/2

this means that they get maximum in 8 matches (since X has to be maximum) and therefore this leaves the answers to Q 8 and 9 useless again !! Please let me know if I am missing something here.

Thanks !

Dex

[fera]

Hey guys,
I haven't attempted the set you mentioned though, i did only the last set in DI (LR part)

Anyways, minus the mistakes in paper which i wasn't aware of till now, I think this was an over all great paper to have a month before D DAy

I personally found The English section more on the lines of 2006.
~my 2cents

[fera]

Passage 1Virtues)
Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes (chapter
The chapter is named as
OF THE VIRTUES COMMONLY CALLED INTELLECTUAL; AND THEIR CONTRARY DEFECTS

passage 2banking education)
Philosophy of Education -- Chapter 2: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The raison detre is mentioned in preceding paragraphs in the article

hope this helps

[k_saksena]

VA - 9
DI - 1.33
QA - -.33

Very very poor scores for me but I have learnt my lesson well from this one. English section I finished 40 minutes which was the limit I had set myself (it being my streangth) , then proceeded to DI and had 1hr. for the in my mind - Attempted and wasted a lot of time in the Sudoku puzzle ( a little bit of pencil pushing and persistence would have cracked it) but I unfortunatly I carcked before the caselet.

Then I thought the last LR caselet was doable but was too slow on it - I thought the question was not big deal and at least 12 marks were there for the taking but messed up that one too.

The a little look at the watch and I panicked straight away because I had less tha 30 minutes for Quant and I proceeded to mark answers without applying a straight head.

In short this was exactly the way I could have messesd up cat , at least now I can learn from mistakes.

[k10kamat]

Hi there....grt mock once again....

DI was moderate...got a score of 19...
QA was moderate...got 16 there....
VA was on the tougher side....especially the passages...got 3 out of 4 wrong...
got 12 in VA

overall--------------47...

any idea abt cutoffs??

[amitajm87]

hey dude !!!!!!! how did u find out the sources of passages ..........

[visusankar]

Horrible and abysmal performance from side. will get only <5 in each section.Lots of lessons to be learnt from this test.A good one before actual CAT.