[18 May- AIMCAT 920] TIME All India free Mock CAT Discussions/Scores/Percentile

[Jaydev Doshi]

Originally Posted by deep_agrawal

I request all of you to please continue on the following thread:

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...ml#post1125929

I request the thread-starters to please search before starting threads for mocks and also wait for some scores to come out before starting the poll .

I have also PMed the mods to merge these two threads.

ATB

For your information i had started this thread only after searching and not finding the thread you are talking about.

The thread you are talking about was started later.
So no point blaming me for the mix up.

[deep_agrawal]

Originally Posted by Jaydev Doshi

For your information i had started this thread only after searching and not finding the thread you are talking about.

The thread you are talking about was started later.
So no point blaming me for the mix up.

Mate it is not my mistake if u cannot search properly.

Check the thread starting time of both the threads:

This is the other one:

[18 May] TIME All India free Mock CAT Discussions/Scores/Percentile - 18-05-2008, 09:02 AM

This is for this particular thread:

Discussion on AIMCAT0920 - 18-05-2008, 01:14 PM

Decipher stuff for yourself.

And please do control the tone of your posts. I only requested you to search and nothing else.

[Phoenix@C]

My bit of advice to all test takers. Do not get dejected with ur Mock CAT scores. It is ultimately what you do during those 2.5 hours on November 18 that matters.

P.S: I have got some really bad scores during my 2 years of preparation.

[Jaydev Doshi]

In that case, it must be my mistake.

My heart felt apologies to one and all.

I have also written to mod Prem_ravi to do the needful.

Next time around i will be more careful.

[aayush_lakshmi]

hey guys....i did really poor but i wana c where i stand ....

QA- 8 ( 2 correct)
DI- 23 ( 6 C, 1 W)
VA- 32 ( 10 C, 8W )

overall- 63

how's my score?...please help me ne1!!!!
i gav bout 45 mins to QA but managed only 2 right...dats ridiculous...please help me any1

[aayush_lakshmi]

hey guys....i did really poor but i wana c where i stand ....

QA- 8 ( 2 correct)
DI- 23 ( 6 C, 1 W)
VA- 32 ( 10 C, 8W )

overall- 63

how's my score?...please help me ne1!!!!
what shud i do bout my maths ya!!...its screwed but i gav it bout 45 mins nd managed just 1 right...dats ridiculous

[maverick_srikan]

Overall - 89

VA - 30 (10 correct 10 wrong)

QA- 30 (8 correct 2 wrong)

DI - 29 (8 correct 3 wrong)

A nice Paper.. was feeling a bit off mid way, couldn't solve too many in quant but had a very good hit-rate. Hoping for a decent discount so I can save some money!

Cheers!

Srikanth

[rik_12]

writin a Mock after 6months...totally out f touch and dat showed in ma effort!!

made a couple f silly blunders....10 marks!!!

nywy 1st things 1st...

attempts : scores

QA-13(10C 3W):37
DI-14(7C 7W):21....been ma nemesis foreva
VA-17(7C 10W):18

OA:76...

waitin for the official analysis....

dunno how dis is gonna shape up!!!...comments welcome!

[nishant_rungta]

Been dumbfounded writing this mock...

Sweating it out so heavily at the test center...

Moi marks...

QA- 23
DI- 47 Decent I guess
VA- single digit score of 9 I need to terribly improve on this front...

A total of measly 79

[nishant_rungta]

ANALYSIS OUT

AIMCAT0920 Analysis

Yet another saga begins! Yes it is indeed the AIMCAT season. A season of big game hunting, of refining skills and practicing for the kill. As always, we at T.I.M.E. would like to reiterate our promise of giving you the most challenging, enriching and learning experience – one that would make the CAT of 2008 seem like child’s play!!

Over the years, we have seen quite a large number of students having a ‘fixed’ notion of what the CAT exam is going to be. This notion stems from their acquaintance with the previous years’ papers (in this case the 2007 and 2006 tests). Nothing can be more dangerous than the “CAT has been like this last year and it is going to be like that in this year as well” approach. The cardinal rule to doing well in CAT is to rid oneself of notions as to what CAT2008 could be like and instead to prepare for all possible permutations and combinations in the exam pattern and in the types of questions being asked.

Let us now analyze each section of today’s AIMCAT:

Section 1 – QUANTITATIVE

Overall, the Quant section of AIMCAT0920 recreated the look and the feel of the Quant section of CAT2007 very closely, except for the fact that this section was, on the whole, of a level of difficulty slightly less than that of the Quant section of the actual CAT2007. Easy and doable questions were not difficult to find. More specifically, there were a significant proportion of such questions among the first half of the section itself, while the latter half had a few more of difficult questions. The DS questions had two easy/doable questions and two which could be classified as difficult There were several questions dealing with basic concepts like elementary geometry, concepts of number theory, simple equations, etc., sufficient enough in number for even the first time CAT-aspirants to give this section a decent shot, without having to complain of not having completed their full syllabus. The only way one could have missed the cut-off in this section could have been to thoroughly mismanage their time by getting stuck in difficult or unfamiliar questions and losing focus. A clear mind and disciplined approach would have easily enabled one to bag a decent percentile.

An average student in Quantitative could have managed a score of around 20+ marks and any score from 28 to 44 marks can be considered to be good. Any score from 45 to 60 would be very good and 60+, excellent.

The cut-off score in this section is expected to be around 28 marks.

Section 2 – LOGIC & DATA INTERPRETATION

The Logic & Data Interpretation section of AIMCAT0920 was of a higher level of difficulty than that of the CAT2007 paper. The questions were not the ‘direct’ calculation based ones but were rather based on logic and involved understanding the situation clearly. The set on ‘boys standing in a queue’ was fairly straight forward and students should have solved it completely. The set on ‘Internet shopping malls in various countries’ was a calculation intensive one and did not test one’s ability to comprehend the data. The set on pie charts was quite easy and anyone who is familiar with ratios would have been able to crack it without much effort. However, the last question in the set was difficult and should have been left out. The sets pertaining to the ‘documents of Gill Bates’, ‘classrooms in a school’ and ‘Waist sizes’ were quite difficult and students choosing them ahead of the other sets would have wasted a lot of time without commensurate returns. The questions on Data Sufficiency were a mixture of both easy and difficult ones with Qs 47 and 49 being sitters. All in all a good paper to test one’s mettle in this very crucial section and highlight areas of concern and improvement.

An average student in Logic & Data Interpretation could have managed a score of around 20 marks and any score from 26 to 40 marks can be considered to be good. Any score from 41 to 54 would be very good and 55+, excellent.

The cut-off score in this section is expected to be around 26 marks.

Section 3 – VERBAL

The Verbal section of AIMCAT0920 was of a slightly lower level of difficulty than that of the CAT2007 paper. The RC passages barring the one on “Japan” were of the CAT type and were based on ethics, economics and philosophy. Students who had not done varied and extensive reading would have found the passages difficult to read and comprehend. Students would have been better off attempting passages 1 and 3, whereas passages 2 and 4 would have troubled even the most prolific of readers. The Qs on grammar and usage were tricky and could have fooled most of the students into making mistakes but then, since this is the first MOCK, there is quite some time to plug the gaps and reinforce the weak areas. Most of you would have tried solving the questions on Vocabulary and a smart elimination based approach would have helped in getting 2 out of the 3 questions right. The para-jumble questions were tricky and would have daunted even the most well prepared of students and as such should have been avoided.

All in all, an average student in Verbal could have managed a score of around 16 marks and any score from 22 to 36 marks can be considered to be good. Any score from 37 to 45 would be very good and 46+, excellent.

The cut-off score in this section is expected to be around 22 marks.

The overall cut-off for at least 1 IIM call would be in the range of 88-92 marks and any score in excess of 108 should fetch 3 or more IIM calls.