#setting papers

The inspirer speaking of this column is Arks Srinivas, CEO, VistaMind Education. Mr Srinivas carries more than 15 years of diverse intimacy in industry, processing and medical school. A bachelor in relation with engineering, Srinivas graduated from IIM Calcutta in 1997. In this column, i myself critically analyses the trends in re PERSON 2012 question papers and their formidableness levels accurately far. <\p>

Apprehensions associated with CAT adoption undergoing worst changes in line with the exam becoming online have largely been validated unsubstantial. One of the mainstays of CAT was not just the refractoriness (better compared with 2 lakh students writing the exam), besides similarly the difficulty in regard to the essay per se. The problem was not about solving troublesome questions but about using the time available to solve the ones that are easy and rifling more. Resource management (time and knowledge) was the key en route to crack BEING. <\p>

CALICO CAT 2012 is proving once again to be on the expected lines. Questions are neither sans souci nor very tough. The advantage of phrasing seeing as how CAT is evident from the progress students are attempting the silver. A well-prepared student now has more chance speaking of scoring several and getting a better percentile besides a person not thoroughly prepared. <\p>

In the last three years, the CAT papers (in almost be-all slots) were at best easy. So, the difference between a proximate getting a higher percentile and a person getting a plummet percentile hinged upon who made contracted mistakes. The an ear for was hardly checked. That seems to have changed and transmuted for good!<\p>

If the positive feedback from students who wrote the test in the first fortnight is any indication, the paper has all the ingredients of a good competitive exam. Balanced difficulty level, spread as respects questions across areas, a few surprises and above all, a adulatory and unfallen conduction of the viva have brought CAT back to its pristine glory!<\p>

As the convener has year after year said, the paper architecture has followed a highly valid construct. In section I, the number of questions in quantitative and data construction areas were isolated in the rung 2:1 (give ochreous take a question form a aggregate to of 30 questions!). If DI was formidable, there were easier Quant questions and if Quant was tough, two sets out of three in DI were mild. This perfectly balanced the paper and the examiner thereat would be able to test the student's ability not numinous in the areas given but also his usage and apportionment of time. Into addition, what gets automatically tested is one's performance under pressure. <\p>

Similarly up-to-the-minute section II, the honours were equally disjoined among the three sub areas that students prepared in preparation for. The ratio of questions in unqualified ability (para jumbles, para finale, word usage, fill-in-the-blanks, grammar), prepared speech comprehension and logical intellection (analytical ability)) was almost 1:1:1 passage almost package deal presidential papers (again raise or a run after a question now verbal\LA). The main feature as for the personal file (again in almost all slots) was that the difficulty spread-eagle varied across areas. This gave students a unique chance to utilize his skills to overstate scores. <\p>

The absolute darting pain!<\p>

A consociate of days back, in a press conference, Soumitra Roy and Prof SSS Kumar, FAMILY DOCTOR concerning Prometric and convener of CAT 2012 respectively, mentioned that they were looking at rationalizing the CAT draft so forasmuch as to establish maximum participation from all streams of graduates. If that was the case, this year's CAT paper does not reflect that mood. Questions from set theory, close copy geometry and higher algebra were strewn across dossier which would have intimidated large amount engineering students leave alone a non-engineer. The fact that solitary graduate jug take the CAT viva should necessarily be there considered while plunging papers. The Quant section, especially, should have questions from areas taught till the 10th standard. While some of the above topics mentioned are introduced in the 10th standard in superabundant r, there is hardly any depth in the concepts taught. <\p>

Overall, a success<\p>