SIMCAT-6 Tricks/Doubts/Hints( not a place to display your scores)

[tallvishal]

Hi,
here we wont discuss scores. There is already a thread on this or will be made by someone . Here doubts and tricks to effective get gr8 should be discussed.here how to get those scores will be discussed rather than display of scores.

so pls contribute your doubts/solutions/tricks for simcat-6 exclusively.

[tallvishal]

moderator can delete this thread as i think no one is interested in this topic.
i dont know how to delete the thread.
pls take liberty to do it.

[tdubey]

To do well in DI, you should have attempted 87-90 and 95-99.
Also 54,55 were stupid easy questions.

[abishekkalro]

54 & 55 were stupid questions... but i was made to think for a moment from where did ims throw in such stupind ones right in middle of a difficult paper..

[Gordon]

DI was the best place to make a mark coz it was the toughest. and many ppl with really low scores (me incl.) would pull down the cutoff...as far as i noticed in the middle of everyset there were do-able qns. trick here was to attempt only those...1-2 qns per set. in all sets...esp the one on population where only counting was involved...ideally 18-20 attempts with 14-15 odd would be 'cracking'

quants ... search and u will find...eg. the 12 base wallah was too simple...there were min 2 solvable qns per page....wthout error this wud straightaway give a doz marks...which would be enuf to clear cutoffs...more than tht im not an authority on quants

VA was bad for me...dunno if anybody had any strat or if any strat works there...

[geetu]

u no i think they threw in 54 & 55 to make us feel good.. before we opened the DI section .. thats my theory!
seriously.. feel good qns!! he he ..
the quant was really easy.. ( i cud easily solve 12..) i normally cant do that... but di all i did was the how many time does it fall n rise thingi!! soo amazin accuracy!! attempted that n got it write!! :P

[ashishyahoo]

hey guys...

Quant in this paper was definitely not easy, as compared to the previous Simcats..after solvin later i cud find only around 21 easy questions stewn all ova the paper...n out of these 8-9 were damn lengthy, or shud i say delberately lengthy to read...

yeah only certain ones like the base conversion one and the last 2 were real sitters...there are around 7-8 of such sitters..

poor me got only 5.25

11+ wud be a fantastic score in Quant this time...

Ashish

[tallvishal]

i shall post my analysis of how ppl scored in this test my feedback will be useful for all those lesser souls like me . pls wait till today

[sammax]

i think simcat 6 is a very gud paper.

atleast it helped me tio shed some conventions that ..
1. RC is not always tough.
2. if VA is dificult then dont overattempt just bcoz it is your strong area.
3. in maths try to read all question.. bcoz u never know where are the easy ones. try to see atleast all questions.
In maths i think those who tried first ten ques -could have scored 6 .. then should have tried to glance to maximise the scores
4. dont leave Ds just bcoz u have alow accuracy..in them... simcat 6 had easy DS .. so atleast 4 marks there ..in 5 min.. thencould have attempted sets to maximise..
this is my analysis..
pls throw some more pointers all of you..

sammax

[tallvishal]

hi all,



Simcat-6 was a lopsided paper.



QANT: I could identify 30 sitters after exam . If u are like me, who can solve most of the questions after exam with looking back to BRMS, then probably the concepts are not into your cache memory. The tranfer time from HDD to cache takes time ( more than the sacred time of 45 secs). Solution is identification of typical questions and revising application of them. dont waste time in concepts revision. Quant was easy



RC: My favourite section.Only way to improve this is believe me, u need to make a group and discuss on why each of the option is wrong and why it is correct. The insights it gives is just tremendous if rightly done. You will start feeling u can teach better than IMS english faculty. If any one from western side of mumbai and loves this section, we can team up for the sake of loving it as hobby even after CAT. ITs amazing to read para long sentences, long RCs and their structure. If u love to "touch" the structures of these intangibles to get that "lovely feeling", u r into right direction.



VA: IMS will say dont byheart wordlist. But at end, u will need to byheart. Thats my friends at IIMA told me. Its unfortunate, i went earlier with IMS advice ,suffering now. Now center manager tells me to go through wordlist for 1 hr every day. Even 2 marks extra due to wordlist is worth the effort now! Now if u have word power and reading power, this section will eat from your hand!



DI: I wasted time in finding sitters sets in DI. It was better to go and take question directly and solving if easy ie going question sitter wise.This required fast reading speed. Again to crack this section, only prior practise would help. I felt DI was tough


Now specific question wise
Complete list of questions and there category for sim 6
Problem Solving
Basic Application Difficult Tricky
4, 23, 31,13,6, 54, 55,5, 42 32, 33,18, 28, 30, 38, 39, 41, 46, 50,1, 8, 36,9, 24, 45,10, 11, 15, 25, 34,16, 47,3, 14, 20 7, 21, 22, 44, 48, 51,53,17,19, 35, 37, 43, 49, 52, 29,40 2,12,26, 27

Verbal Ability
Difficult Medium Easy
126, 127, 129, 138, 145,146,134, 128, 130, 140 137,141, 144, 149, 150,133, 135, 136131,139 143, 148, 132,142, 147
Reading Comprehension
Direct Partially Indirect Inferential
111, 113, 117,118,154,164, 116 112,119, 121,122, 124, 125,151, 152, 155,157, 160, 115 120,123,153,156, 159,161, 163, 165, 114,158,162
Data Interpretation
Calculation Intensive Difficult Logic / Data Set Direct / Basic / Observation / % / Averages
57, 65, 67, 68, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 63, 66, 69, 70, 81, 100, 102 59, 83, 84, 85, 86, 58 56, 61, 62, 64, 88, 91, 92, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 60, 87, 89, 90, 105
Data Sufficiency
Basic Application Difficult Logic / Data Set
75, 73 76 72, 74

I believe in precise analysis of RC and VA as wel
l just as Quant and DI. For eg. What is the tone of author? Should get me those adverbs directly specify required tone. No guess or No instincts. Its like machine cruching. U come out and u know for sure what are your right answers in RC and VA.

This type of analysis requires strong team work as if I do it alone it takes me 20 hrs per simcat.

Vishal
tallvishal@gmail.com


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