Published : Monday, 17 November, 2014 11:15 AM
Day one of CAT 2014 is over on 16th November, 2014 so it can be worthwhile to understand the analysis of trend, that might be helpful to aspirants who are appearing in the last day of CAT 2014 on 22nd November, 2014
As per the announcement made earlier, the paper had two sections - Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning, with 50 questions in each section.
The sections were available sequentially, each having a time limit of 85 minutes to answer 50 questions. The total duration of the test was 170 minutes. The overall structure of the paper was as follows:
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Section
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No. of Questions
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Time in minutes
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Difficulty Level
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Possible Attempts
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Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation
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50
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85
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Tough
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25-29
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Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
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50
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85
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Moderate
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27-35
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Total
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100
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170
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48- 56
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Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation
- There were approx. 32 questions of QA and 18 questions of DI in both the slots. The difficulty level was high and the questions were designed to test the grasp of fundamentals.
- There were questions from regular topics like Number System, Algebra, Geometry, Modern Math and Geometry. Questions in Data Interpretation area were also not simple and involved convoluted calculations. All the questions in DI came in sets of three.
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Section
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Topic
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No. of Questions
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Quantitative Ability
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Number System
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2-5
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Algebra
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8-9
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Arithmetic
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5-8
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Modern Math
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4-7
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Geometry and Mensuration
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9-11
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Data Interpretation
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Bar Graphs
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2
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Pie Charts
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2
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Table based
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8
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Combinations of Graphs
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4
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Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning
- The questions in this section were of moderate to difficulty level. The trick here was to aim for high accuracy by correctly identifying the questions that one was confident of solving correctly. RC’s were manageable, not being inordinately lengthy or abstract. At most only one of the three given passages was tough.
- There was a balanced mix of questions from the various areas of Verbal Ability. All the questions in LR came in sets of 3. Slot-2 saw as many as 3 questions on tone/style of the passage/author.
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Section
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Topic
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No. of Questions
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Description
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Reading Comprehension
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Reading Comprehension
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15 (7+4+4)
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At least one RC in each set was unique and all the passages were of moderate level.
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English Usage
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Sentence Correction
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4
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4 statements were given - one had to identify the combination of correct/incorrect statements
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Para-jumble
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6-7
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4 sentence type
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Para-completion
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7
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Moderate – tough , last line missing type
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FIB
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4
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Easy-moderate , 2 blanks type
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Word Usage
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5-9
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Simple words , use of phrasal verbs
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Para-jumble (Odd sentence out)
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6-8
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3 statements out of which 2 could be arranged in a sequence
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Logical Reasoning
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Data Arrangement
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( 8+5+8)
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All the three sets were arrangement problems
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Seating Arrangement
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Logic Based
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