Any one who has seen CAT 2006 would be reminded of it after solving QQAD Test 3. In a test of this nature, people who are good in quant have great chance to maximize their overall marks by scoring heavily in quant section. Often, we have seen cricket pundits commenting that a batsman should play a bowler on the merit of the ball and not bowler's reputation. This holds for CAT as well.
Attempt the section on its merit and not reputation with pre-determined ideas about its toughness or the possible cut-off scores.
The competition will always be at your neck, irrepective of the fact that you managed to score good in a section due to easy paper, others will also do the same. But,
one can't over-emphasise the merit of good accuracy in any kind of paper. 2 silly mistakes can swing down your percentile from 96 to 90 in that section and hence can deny you 3-4 IIM calls.
A student who has quant as his/her strong area should have attempted 17 questions with close to 80% accuracy. Or you just needed to answer 13-14 problems correctly with 100% accuracy to score very good in this paper!
Let's identify easy problems in this paper -> 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 15, 17, 18, 22, 23 -> each of which shouldn't have taken more than 150 seconds to be read/understood and solved. Infact some of these needed less than a minute to be cracked. You had another 25 minutes for 4 more problems to solve correctly.
Many face the problem of sticking to a particular question for too long, doing some activity and coming out with zero or even negative results. This can happen with any one of us. The best way to deal with this is to expand your skill set areas in quant by practising problems of varied kinds. Another way is to divide the problems into a) funda problem (5, 8, 10, 16, 18 , 25 etc.) b) calculation problem (1, 14, 15, 17 etc.) or mixture of both (2, 7, 19, 20, 21, 24 etc.) Calculation problems are the best bet (if you are sure to ace each of these in 3 minutes then attempt it else leave). Funda problems that involves litle or no calculation should be thought of and understood well in its completeness. The aim
of the examiner is not to kill you in the exam but to see the best of you. Again, if you are unable to think of a line to solve a funda problem in 3 minutes then come out immediately. Funda + calculation problems are actually less tougher than pure funda problems, so device a strategy yourself how to deal with this, but at any point no problem should be given more than 4 minutes. It's a SIN not to read all the 25 questions in the section to decide which one's should be attempted and which one should be left untouched. Remember,
practice doesn't make a man perfect, only a perfect practice makes a man perfect.
The scores and the marks in Practice test 3 will be as following
[53, 55] -> 99 percentile
[43, 45] -> 96 percentile {for 4+ IIM calls, provided you have decent scores in other VA and DI section as well}
[33, 35] -> 90 percentile {for 1+ IIM call(s), provided you have decent scores in other VA and DI section}
We still have time to learn to be hungary to score and yet know our limitations under which we have to perform to the best of our potential on the D-day. In this regard, analysing a paper thoroughly will help immensely.
People who managed 50+ in this paper deserve special praise
The highest so far in this test has been 66 marks. Kudos to the person who managed this.
Keys to Practice test 3
1 -> b
2 -> b
3 -> b
4 -> c
5 -> c
6 -> a
7 -> d
8 -> b
9 -> d
10 -> e
11 -> c
12 -> a
13 -> d
14 -> d
15 -> c
16 -> e
17 -> d
18 -> e
19 -> a
20 -> b
21 -> e
22 -> b
23 -> e
24 -> e
25 -> e
The thread is now opened for the discussions
Please post the answer to problems that can be put as official solutions.
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21-08-2008, 01:06 PM
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