CAT 2011 Experience & Analysis
Those
who are giving CAT this month; Learn the experience of CAT from, CAT 2011
test takers.
This
probably ends the long wait and with the NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement), there
is very little chance that anything of serious significance can be brought out
of the post-CAT analysis. However, there are no surprises in the CAT,
say Experts.
This
would prove to be a good enough indicator on how things should be expected on
the D-Day.
Around
2 lakh students are attempting the CAT 2011 exam that kicked off early
this week. Thanks to the past two years of experience, Prometric and hence the
IIMs were able to conduct this at almost all locations without any error or
issue, there has hardly been a glitch reported.
The
biometrics, passwords for the tests, seating arrangement, entry all
worked with clockwork precision in most places. It was also reported that at
most places the invigilators were resourceful and helpful.
Once
you are seated, the invigilators are kind enough to help you with the logging
in and all the other stuff that is required to start the tutorial and the test.
Funny, however, that they give you Erasers instead of Sharpeners (for you to
sharpen your pencils) in a Computer-Based exam. There are scratch papers provided
which clearly requires more of pencil than an eraser!
A
tutorial for 15 minutes (you need hardly 5 minutes to go through the same)
clearly helps students to familiarise themselves with what is required to be
done in the 140 minutes of the test.
Definitely,
it appears, that Prometric has come a long way in India
CAT 2011 Analysis
However,
when I spoke to other friends of mine it appears that NOT all students have got
exactly the same paper even in the same slot. While many students could
identify the questions that each had, there were cases wherein the pattern was
not exactly the same to all the students who have written the exam.
In
some instances, some students got Data Sufficiency questions in the paper in
the first slot and some other did not. The number of questions in each area of
Verbal Ability also varied with students sitting next to each other, it appears.
While
there has never been any doubt that, if there were 40 different sets of papers,
then there would be 40 different patterns (one per slot) of papers, it just is
a bit of a surprise that there may not be 40 exclusive sets of papers this time
around. It is very much possible that a set (say 80percent to 90percent) of
questions are the same for all students in a particular slot but, the remaining
10 or 20 percent of the questions are different to different individuals. Or
there are more than one set given even in one slot of the paper!
First Day, First Slot
according to Experts
“The
paper, according to many students can be termed as moderately difficult. The
first section, which contains Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation, was
slightly more difficult than the second section that had Verbal Ability,
Reading Comprehension and Logical Reasoning. This analysis or feedback from the
students can be taken with a pinch of salt too as many students are inherently
weak in both quant and calculations.
If
the DI happens to be with more calculation oriented questions, it is hardly a
surprise that students may find it difficult.
Students
felt that section II was marginally easier than the first section as there were
enough sets of Logical Reasoning, which are scoring and easy too.
While
a student may be bad in Vocabulary, Grammar or Reading Comprehension, but if
has the knack to give sufficient time to the Logical Reasoning questions, then
it is that much more easier to clear the cutoffs in that section.”
Cutoffs
According
to Experts, the cutoffs for CAT 2011 could be similar to that of CAT 2010.To
get a 85 percentile in each of the sections, around 35percent of the net mark
would be able to get one there.
Similarly, to
get a 97percentile+, a student would probably need around 40 percent to 45
percent net mark in each of the sections say Experts.
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