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T.I.M.E.
does it in CET too! Students of T.I.M.E. were ecstatic
that this year the MBA CET on 27th Feb 2005 was exactly
in the same lines of the MOCK CETs that T.I.M.E. has conducted
for their students. In addition the difficulty levels
of the papers given by T.I.M.E. was on par with actual
Maharashtra CET’05.
The paper
had 200 questions for a total of 200 marks. The time
allotted to the paper was 150 minutes and there was
no negative marking. The paper was broadly along the
lines of last year’s paper. The paper was of average
difficulty level and had no surprises for the well-prepared
student. As usual, the paper had no sectional divisions
and questions from various areas were scattered across
the paper. The details are given below.
Pattern
of CET 2005
|
Area |
No. Of Questions
|
|
Logical Reasoning |
77 |
| Visual Reasoning |
30 |
| Verbal Ability |
30 |
| Reading Comprehension |
15 |
| Data Interpretation |
20 |
|
Numerical and Quantitative Aptitude |
28 |
|
Total |
200 |
Area-wise break-up
Area
|
Classification |
No of Questions |
Remarks |
|
Logical Reasoning |
Strong & weak arguments |
05 |
Easy |
|
Cause & Effect |
05 |
Average |
|
Probably True/False |
05 |
Difficult |
|
Logical Deduction |
05 |
Easy |
|
Number Series |
05 |
Difficult |
|
Number odd man out |
05 |
Difficult |
|
Symbols & notations |
05 |
Easy |
|
Blood relation |
04 |
Easy |
|
Letter series + coding decoding |
18 |
Easy |
|
Verbal Reasoning |
05 |
Easy |
|
Input / output |
05 |
Average |
|
Case lets – 2 (Analytical) |
10 |
Easy |
|
Total |
77 |
|
| Area |
Classification |
No
of Questions |
Remarks |
|
Verbal Ability |
Cloze
passage |
10 |
Average |
|
Synonyms (Match A with B) |
05 |
Easy |
|
Error Spotting |
05 |
Average |
|
Direct/Indirect Speech |
05 |
Easy |
|
Jumbled Paragraph |
05 |
Easy |
|
Total |
30 |
|
| Area |
Classification |
No
of Questions |
Remarks |
| Reading Comprehension |
Philosophical |
15 |
Difficult |
| Total |
15 |
|
| Area |
Classification |
No
of Questions |
Remarks |
| Visual
Reasoning |
Series Completion |
25 |
Average To Difficult |
| Series Analogy |
05 |
Easy |
| Total |
30 |
|
Area |
Classification |
No
of Questions |
Remarks |
| Data Interpretation |
Table 1 |
05 |
Calculation
Intensive |
|
Table 2 |
05 |
Easy |
|
Line Graph |
05 |
Easy |
|
Line Graph |
05 |
Easy |
|
Total |
20 |
|
Area |
Classification |
No of Questions |
Remarks |
| Quantitative
Aptitude |
Permutation & Combination |
01 |
Difficult |
|
Probability |
01 |
Average |
|
Quantitative Comparison |
05 |
Average |
|
Number (VBODMAS) |
10 |
Easy |
|
Error Correction |
01 |
Easy |
|
Data Sufficiency |
10 |
Average |
|
Total |
28 |
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Expected cut-offs
Since all the candidates will be called for Group Discussion
and Interview, the final score will determine the selection
to the top colleges (JBIMS, SYDENHAM, KJ SOMAIYA, etc).
There is another stage for gaining 40 marks as given
below.
Group Discussion
17 marks
Personal Interview
17 marks
Academics (SSC/HSC) 04 marks
Work Experience
02 marks
Total
expected cut-offs before the GD-Interview process are
as follows
Out of 200 Marks
JBIMS
140+
SYDENHAM
133+
K.J. SOMAIYA 130+
WELINGKARS 125+
SNDT (women) 122+
DALMIA
118+
PUMBA
115+
Trends
1. Some topics that were notably absent in last year’s
paper reappeared in this year’s paper like,
1. Inferences
2. Arguments
3. Decision Making
2. There were no questions on
‘Geometry and Menstruation’.
3. Compared to last time Visual Reasoning were relatively
easy.
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