Cet 2005

Analysis of CET - 2005 This year’s CET was tougher than usual. Visual Reasoning ruled the roost and not much could have been scored in this area as the questions were really tough. Quantitative Ability questions were difficult to spot. The Verbal section was the score builder. Questions on "fill up the blanks" were moderate and less time consuming. Data Interpretation questions were simple but calculative. Two caselets on Analytical Reasoning were easy. There was a single passage from Reading Comprehension which was easy to crack. Questions based on coding, decoding, blood relation etc. were simpler and easy to crack. There were 5 questions based on arrangement of sentences which were easy. Syllogisms were simple and were scoring. Deductive Reasoning questions were confusing but manageable. Data sufficiency and Quantitative Comparison was easy. As expected this year also CET did not show any major shift from its previous year patterns. As the tradition of CET goes, the Reasoning Questions were maximum in number. Students who are not good at Problem Solving but good at Verbal Ability were blessed as the paper had very few questions on Problem Solving which were of moderate difficulty and the Verbal Ability Questions were very easy. The Grammar and Vocabulary based questions were of average difficulty level. Questions on Visual Reasoning, which has been a salient feature of CET, were difficult and hard on the eye. The Data Interpretation Questions had very close answer options making approximation difficult and one had no other option than to calculate the answers. There were a few sitters in the paper but one had to follow the strategy of smart browsing to locate them. Smart preparation with enough practice of paper pattern of CET would definitely get one in the best college.

Sr. No 1 2 3 4

Area Tested Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Reasoning Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency Problem Solving Total

No of Questions Difficulty level 50

Easy

95

Average

30

Tough

25 200

Easy Average

Sectional Breakup Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension Sr. No 1 2 3 4 5 6

Area Tested

No of questions Difficulty level

Reading Comprehension Fill in the blanks Sentence Correction/Miss spelt word Odd man out Direct/Indirect speech Analogies Total

15 10

Easy Easy

5+5

Easy

5 5 5 50

Easy Easy Easy Easy

Reasoning Sr. No 1 2 3 4 5 6

Area Tested

No of Questions Difficulty Level

Visual Reasoning Mathematical Reasoning Analytical Reasoning Logical Reasoning Coding, Decoding/ Blood Relation Inductive Reasoning Total

30 5 20 5

Tough Tough Easy Easy

17 + 3

Easy

15 95

Average Average

Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency Sr. No 1 2 3 4

Area Tested

No of Questions Difficulty Level

Data Interpretation Data Sufficiency Quantitative comparison Total

20 5 5 30

Tough Easy Easy Average

Overall the paper was of average difficulty level. Overall top score should be 145+.