| Monday, November 26, 2007
The verdict on CAT
A week after CAT 2007 concluded, there are different versions
doing the rounds on the difficulty levels of this year’s
examination.
C. P. Vasan, city head of Career Launcher, Chennai, offers the
following analysis: On the whole, the paper was tough, analysts
say, with no section providing much of a respite to the aspirants.
Comparatively speaking, the students would have found Data Interpretation
(DI), with a mix of calculations and logic to be on the easier
side.
Data Sufficiency in its old format reappeared in CAT after a
span of three years, more so in two different sections. The
emphasis in the DI section was on speed of calculation.
Quantitative Ability (QA) proved to be mind bogglingly difficult
for the average student. However, on a closer look, 7-8 questions
could have been solved using options without using deeper mathematical
knowledge.
In Verbal Ability (VA), the number of Reading Comprehension
(RC) passages was more than last year, though they were not
lengthy. The number of questions per passage was low, just three
each.
Though, for a change, there were no abstract questions in RC.
However, each passage required meticulous reading. As a section,
it is safe to infer that the VA section checked almost all the
aspects, including verbal logic, vocabulary and grammar.
The Sentence Correction questions in VA were different in nature
to last year’s, while the Para jumbles provided a bit
of a breather in terms of difficulty level.
Overall, even though the paper did not pose any surprise, patternwise,
with the number of questions remaining 75 as last year, the
level of difficulty was increased by at least two to three notches.
In conclusion, even with the best of preparations it would be
really tough to score 100 in this paper.
Courtesy: The Hindu - Education Plus
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