My perception before the AIMCAT : As CAT is close, TIME would refrain from doing too much experimentation or giving a paper of high difficulty, but as this paper is a pencil paper test so number of questions might increase a bit.
Overview: Paper was almost on the lines of expected, except for equal no. of questions in all the three sections.
Aimcat Analysis : The test consisted of 72 questions, with 24 questions in each of three sections QA,VA and DI. Total time available for the paper was 135 minutes, with no sectional time limits.
QA : The section can be marked as an easy to moderate section. It had a lot of sitters along with quite a few time taking questions. There were quite a few questions which could have been solved by proper observation and option rejection, with-out knowing about the concepts involved.
The paper was pretty easier in comparison to previous Aimcats and CAT 08, so the cut-off score is bound to be on the higher side. But to score very high marks in the section wasn't easy considering a few tricky and speed-breaking questions scattered here and there in the paper.
Expected cut-off : 28 for 85 percentile.
40 for 95 percentile.
DI : DI is often considered to be the most dreading section of Aimcats, and going by the recent Aimcats it usually has the lowest cut-offs, this time the condition is a bit different. DI was the easiest section of the paper (individual perceptions may vary) with as 15 out of 24 questions (4 out of 6 sets) were based on interpreting simple figures.
Remaining two sets were decent and required some thinking but one out of them was very similar to set already been asked in previous aimcats and hence can be considered as considerably easy.
Expected cut-off : 30 for 85 percentile.
40 for 95 percentile.
VA : VA was comparatively the most difficult section of this Aimcat, a lot of inferential questions in the RCs with quite a few arguable answers as provided in the answer booklet made life difficult for people who depend a lot on RCs. 5 vocab based questions were also very difficult, and I wonder whether more than 20 percent people would have got 2 or more correct.
In contrast, the other VA questions were pretty easy because the easy option rejection.
Expected cut-off : 20 for 85 percentile.
28 for 95 percentile.
OA :Though this paper was not even close to the standard of actual CAT papers, it was pretty good for the lessons it provided.
Expected cut-off : 80 for 85 percentile
100 for 95 percentile
115 for 99 percentile.
Lessons one needs to learn.
A lot of guys would have done better if they had idea about the difficulty level of the paper. Last few questions in QA and the last two sets in DI were among the easiest questions of the paper, while a lot of guys would have wasted quite a lot of time in doing the more time-taking (time taking isn't same as being difficult) questions and hence lost a chance to maximize their overall score. Therefore it is very important to ensure that no question remains unattended (read unread).
A lot of people, mostly engineers depend too much on RC for scoring in VA section, the paper was a kind of wake up call for them (including me:P). Quite a few answers are debatable, this should be used as an excuse.
Going into a paper with too many predetermined constraints like solving x number of questions isn't always a good idea, rather one should try to maximize his score by solving as many questions as he can in the allotted time.
Will be posting some questions which could have been solved even without knowing the underlying concepts + some questions which could have been done in less time than it usually takes while solving the questions using formal approach.
P.S. -> The lessons mentioned in this post apply on me as much (read much more) than they do on anybody else. I am scoring a total of 117 (courtesy to 14 wrong questions in such a simple paper).
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