Post-Mortem

Laboratory Test - 4 : Analysis

TCC-25 : CAT-25
Laboratory Test - 4  :  WarmUp-2

The raison d'être of success is continuous learning, revision, testing, analysing one’s performance and again revising.
A veritable cycle indeed.
So, let us analyse this test without further ado.

MACRO VIEW

The test was moderately complex. The Mathematics section covered questions from the major four topics. The English section was dominated by Reading Comprehension. Overall, the section was of moderate complexity. The LR & DI section was dominated by DI questions and ranged from easy to moderate questions.

MICRO VIEW

English

Reading Comprehension

There were four passages, each passage had four questions. The passages ranged from moderate to difficult, were extensive in length, and demanded good lexical prowess.

The first passage was on “Durkheim’s Thesis”. It contained Tone, Central Idea, and Assumption-based questions. The passage was mentally stimulating and demanding.

The second passage on “Iraqi voters” was moderately complex. Here, the tone and the central idea of the passage could have been fathomed after one fine reading. Given regular revision of the RC Concept Classes and investment in Mental Gymnasium, understanding the tone of this passage would have been a child’s play. All the other three questions could have been solved in a few seconds each, once the passage had been comprehended correctly.

The third passage on “Game Theory” was a moderately complex passage. It was a mix of Inferential and Specific Detail Questions, but was slightly challenging, given that the options were too close.

The last passage was based on an extract from a novel. It was an extensive passage. Anyone who has good reading skills could have managed to attempt this passage successfully.

Verbal Ability

It was a combination of FIJ, Grammar, Text Completion, and Vocabulary. In total there were 8 questions from verbal ability.

The FIJ question was the easiest of the lot and could have been attempted comfortably. Grammar and Vocabulary questions were simple. The Text Completion question was a little tricky, but it was doable.

LR & DI

Q 25 to Q 28: This Grid-based Reasoning block could have been deduced in around six minutes and the subsequent questions would have taken a few seconds to answer. It was not a tricky block. 

Q 29 to Q 32: The block on service providers was a doable block. The table was easy to understand and in around seven to eight minutes, twelve marks could have been gained.

Q 33 to Q 36: This block had multiple graphs and was moderately complex. Such blocks, usually, take a lot of time to generate the desired outcome. This should have been attempted if there was time.

Q 37 to Q 40: The block on professors and semesters was a moderate block. Though it demanded preparation of a few cases, it could have been solved in about seven minutes.

Q 41 to Q 44: The block on the State Government employees was of moderate complexity. The graphs were comprehensible but, the block demanded calculations and that with the knowledge of Table Sheet could have been comfortably managed.

Mathematics

This section had questions from all the major topics but was dominated by Arithmetic.

A quick representation of the section is as follows :

One could have been stuck in a few Arithmetic and Number System questions if one is shaky in the concepts taught.

Questions 46, 64, are amongst the few questions which were comparatively more difficult than the others. So, they should have been approached after reflection.

If one would have mastered the concepts, and would have broken their head enough, only attempting the must-do questions with utmost accuracy would have fetched a good score and in turn would have taken care of the sectional cut-offs.

Variety in the tests will equip one with necessary armaments and prepare one for the worst-case scenario.

With this we top off the analysis of this test.

Complete focus towards POAs is imperative.

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