AIMCAT 0908 analysis

Another 25-25-25 question AIMCAT with no changes what so ever. Indeed, AIMCATs now should bring the sense of uncertainty into the picture. However, Changes should be in a realm of possibility so here we go..
This AIMCAT was breazer for almost everyone. "DI was a piece of cake walk" as many says, but sets needed one to concentrate hard and do some heavy calculations. Yet, thethird set on TV channel and skill sets was very easy and one could have managed to score 20 marks here. Other sets were not that easy (At least for me). But, 1-2 questions from other sets were doable and so 30 marks here in DI was a valid target.
VA section was easy. FIJ (Facts, Inferences & Judgements) was a life saver. Questions were easy. One could have solved 4 out of 5 questions easily. Para completion question were also easy and 3 Qs out of 4 were sure shot. However, in case of RCs, selection played a major role. Last para was the easiest one and one should have attempted. With decent accuracy, one cold have scored around 3 Q correctly here. So overall 35+ was the valid target for anyone.
In QA section, there were a few very easy questions. For e.g Question No. 54, 57, 59, 63,69,70,75 were simple and could have been solved with 100% accuracy..so i think 22+ was a decent target.
My Scores:
QA : 22 :-(
DI 22 :-(
VA 40 :-)
OA: 84 (Could have managed 2-3 questions easily but dumbo me skipped them while solving)
So this is all about AIMCAT 0980..You are free to put your comments.
Regards,
Ameya

Rock On !! and AIMCAT 909

:) as you see the title you might think i have rocked on this AIMCAT 909 but unfortunately the converse is true. Yes, this post is all about two different topics. One about the latest movie i saw Rock ON !! and another, AIMCAT 909.

Hmmm, which one shoul i discuss first? Anyways, lets Rock On !!

As the title of a movie says, movie is AWESOME, FANTASTIC, Excellent. I can not describe it in words. After long tiring days of study this movie indeed rocked me on. Every single aspect of movie was specificly managed and executed. One will never get bored while watching this movie, not even for a second. Farahan Akthar has rocked this movie, rather everyone has, but he was a real surprise when it comes to singing. His vocals are fantastic and music by Shankar, Eahesaan and Loy has put eveyone on to the floor. Story is also flawless. Overall a really good movie to watch, rather a must watch movie.

Now let us come back to AIMCAT 0909. This AIMCAT must have shocked everyone one. Most will say this was the toughest of this season. But i think a few question from VA and QA were doable although not sitters. If one was dependent on sitters to clear the cut offs then this AIMCAT would have been a nightmare for one.

VA section, although not to easy but was the easiest of all other sections and had a few doable questions. The RC passage on Religion-based classification has tw oquestion doable. Rc on War also had 1-2 questions doable. TIME is saying that Upstreme Downstreme argument was difficult and one should have preffered Parajumbles over the previous one but i disagree to this. These question had two very easy questions like Q 12 and 13. Also question on word replacement was also easy (Q 7).

QA section has some really easy questions for e.g. Q 21,26,32,35 and 36 were easy and manageble. But again clearing the cut offs was totally dependent on selection of questions. I am not the expert in this section so i would not talk about it much.

DI section was the nemisis. The toughest of all sections. It was veryt difficult for me to find even a single question to solve. However, DI set 1 was near about doable and the last was the hardest of all.

Overall, i think solving 5 questions with 100% accuracy in 45 mins for each of your stronger section and 5-6 question with 100% accuracy in 60 mins for the difficult or weaker section was the key to clear the cut offs. I was able to do so in VA and QA but as the adage says, "Lalach Buri Bala Hai", after solving 5-6 question from VA and QA, i was tempted to solve more questions and here my negative marking started and i lost the marks earned in earlier 5 questions eventually leading to not clearing even half of the cut offs.Well, this is the story about my experience of AIMCAT 0909. Lets see what AIMCAT 0908 has in its kitty to offer. But one thing i really want to say is, one can not totally dismiss the chances of appearing this kinda paper in CAT 2008.

Regards,

Ameya

AIMCAT 910 results

I was searching a boulder to break my head, this was my reaction when i cheked my scores. I marked some questions incorectly !! i was unable to belive it as since CAT 2006 i hd taken evary possible care at least while marking. Anyways this taught me another aspect and i am sure i wont repeat this mistake again.
My performance was pathetic 87.33%ile, thanks to those 5 wrongly marked question, else i would at least have crossed 92 %ile. Anyways, there is no point in lamenting over spilt milk. This AIMCAT was real breazer for all. TIME has declared the cut offs at 10+, 11+, 14+ for QA, VA, DI respectively. I hope to get some time to analyze my performance at this AIMCAT. Sometimes work sucks every bit of your time.
However, whatever may be your score is, good or bad, dosent matter. Important point here is to check and analyze your mistakes and making sure not to repeat them in upcoming AIMCATs.
Never loose hope and never get demotivated. We still have 79 days to go and world can turn 79 times in this time. So pull your socks and fire with full throttle. I will update this blog again before the AIMCAT and after the AIMCAT.
Say it with me, I am improving, i wont loose, i will win..Lets win...This time now or never..

AIMCAT 0910 Analysis

Yet another AIMCAT, well, before i get lost in the work let me put some analysis of the latest AIMCAT 0910.
PS: this is totally my own perception about the test

QA: This section was not that tough but selection of question was the major role palyer in conquering this section. Some question like 1,8,17,20,21,22,31,32,34,35,46,48 should have attempted. I will put the detailed analysis once i finish the analysis. The cut offs are predicted towards 14-16 for QA section.

VA: English was real treat for VA lovers this time. Some passages were real easy ans so were the parajumbles. One should have left the Summary question as those were time consuming. The cut off are around 15-16 for this section.

DI: Ahh, was the fantastic section this time. Last 10 question were all sitters and should have attmepted in not more than 15 mins. Question sets like the "Bus transport", "No of erasers in the office", "Cold Drink brands and companies" were really easy and one should have attempted them with at least 95% accuracy. (For a change I did this time, he he)

Over all the paper was feel - good factor for all those who are struggling in past few AIMCATs. But the task is not over yet. You should tear out the paper with the analysis. Let me know your thoughts and concerns on this AIMCAT. Lets share..

Regards,
Ameya

AIMCAT 0918 Results Out !!

AIMCAT 0918 results are out now, first of all soory for posting after so many days as had benn busy in projects. Well, this AIMCAT was a real opprtunity to test where you preparations are heading. Questions were easy, YES easy !! even though it wont appear easy at first hand.
In the QA section, there were minimum 8 question those one could have solved if one's concentration during the test was highest. The cut off for this section is at 21 marks (5 questions). Few question i want to discuss out here.
I dont remember the question number so please pardon me for that.
There was a question i think question 49, was the easiest of all..IF you are able to draw the figure properly, Bang !! 4 marks and figure was not that tough to draw. The clue in this question was the use of "Alternate segment theorem". With the use of this answer was there in your hands in less than 2 minutes. I missed this one because of oversight. This i have been telling to my self to read each and every question and i even decide that i will not let any question go out of my eye sight but some how this keeps happen. Lets see, i am trying to improve on this.

Secondly, there was a question 28, that talks about number of people are games that they play. simple writing down the equation in terms of veriables a,b,c,d.... would have fetched you 4 marks straight away. No skills were required to solve this one. I solved this one wrong !!

Now there was a question number 34 i think, please cross chekc the question number.
It talks about a+b+c+d = 13 and we were asked to find minimum value of sum of cubes of a,b,c,d given that all are positive integers.
Man, this was the question for which i am breaking my head that i never tried to solve it.
Now tell me what will be the minimum value of sum of a,b,c,d if a+b+c+d = 13???
Obviously when a=b=c=d = 13/4 isn't it??
But as all are integers, we can take this value for a,b,c,d, now lets take nearest integer value of this fraction and this comes out as 3 !!
Now try to consider value of variables as 3, but a+b+c+d = 3+3+3+3 => 12 !! so we need to increase one of the value by 1 so the sum becomes 3+3+3+4 = 13 !!
Now use these values and determine the sum of cubes of these values and this come out as 145 !!
4 marks more. I think we are at 12 marks by now..

Now this i remember clearly, question number 32, that asked you to clculate the ratio of sides and ration of other sides was given as 4:3
I am not saying this was poor question but belive me if you are good at similarity of triangles, you would have fetched 4 marks for sure...

Now comes again one of the most simple question, 43..
It talks about dishonest sugur marchant and his gain on trading, He manages to get 20% more sugure initially that means if he is intended to get 100 Kg of sugure, he manages 120 Kg. And suppose the price of sugure is 1 Rs so he initially invested 100Rs. Now 30% of sugur actually delivered is added to get original quantity i.e. 30% of 120 => 36 which gets you to 156, and it was stated that he charges 10% of initial claiming his transportation cost so 10% of 100 => 10 so adding this we get 156 + 10 = 166 so total gain is 66% !! More 4 marks..

Now i wanna discuss the question number 47, was most easy and was solvable in not more than 1 min. It talks about points that lie on and between the trinagle with co-ordinate (0,0) (0,5)(5,0).
It ask you to find number of integer points on this figure.
Even if you draw the figure and mark points manually, it will land you to 10 Points, Try it. Draw the figure and have a look your self.
By now we are up to 20 marks i.e. 1 mark short of cutoff and %tile near to 93-94 !!

Well, there are some more questions but i wont discuss them out here. These were the question one could have managed to solve in less than 15 min at max and cut off was clear. I missed this althoguh claiming i was not fresh enough to write the test but i understand CAT wont let me give any excuse and i have to crack it any how...
Hope i wont repeate these silly mistakes in the coming AIMCAT !! All the best and congrats for the people who scored well on this test.

Regards,
Ameya