Analysis & Feedback - 1121

The much awaited result for my first AIMCAT of this season is finally out and it is a mixed bag. It is a decent effort with plenty of grey areas as well. A snapshot of my performance is shown above.

ANALYSIS

L&DI: This section looked startling with mammoth data sets. A casual glance could easily have frightened off many test takers. However, on a closer look, the questions were of moderate difficulty level with some demanding serious consideration details. Also there was a set on Cubes which required heavy 3D visualization (Mechanical Engineers wouldn’t be complaining :) ). I was pleasantly surprised at my result in this section as this has never been my forte. Managed to clear the cut-off by a meager 3 marks but its still an improvement from my previous attempts.

Verbal Ability : My strongest section. Traditionally, my overall results in the AIMCATS or Actual CATs have been directly proportional to how well I have done in this section. This AIMCAT was no different with a major chunk of my marks scored of this section. Accuracy was a grey area in which I will have to improve in order to stabilize my scores in this level (My Scores in this section have varied from 89 to 99 in the previous seasons). Questions involving the conclusion of sentences were the weakest link with 4 incorrect attempts out of 5.

Quantitative Ability : It was a decent mix of easy as well as difficult questions but the overall difficulty level was more on the Easy side. This has been my weak point ever since I started my CAT preparations and I have been working tirelessly to achieve a turnaround. Missed the Cut off by 4 Marks but still I’m quite pleased with the Accuracy of 87.5. Still much preparation is required before I start scoring high consistently.

Overall, the Paper was of Moderate difficulty level and 10-12 marks could easily have been scored merely by achieving a better accuracy ad doing a better selection of which questions to attempt and which ones to leave! Pretty pleased as this is my highest ever AIMCAT percentile (2008 season included) though the no. of test takers was low at around 14k. I can expect the same effort to fetch lower percentile three or four months down the line when the number as well as the seriousness of the test takers increases.

In the words of Robert Frost

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
Miles to go before I sleep. ’’