Management Aptitude Test (MAT)

May 02, 2010

Birds Eye View

TotalNumberofQuestions200 TotalTime150minutes TheMATwas heldon02May,2010atvariouscitiesacross India.Around300collegesoffalloverIndiaisaffiliatedtothis exam. TheMarkingScheme Onemarkforeachcorrectanswer. 0.25marsforeachincorrectanswer. TotalMarks 200 NumberofOptions4 Sections/SectionalTimeLimitTherewere5sections Thewasontraditionallines.Thereweretotal200questions tobesolvedinatimespanof 150minutes.Fouralternative wereprovidedforeachquestions.Therewerefivesections viz.ReadingComprehensionandEnglishUsage(RCand EU),QuantitativeAptitude(QA),LogicalReasoning(LR), DataInterpretation and Data Sufficiency (DI and DS) and GeneralKnowledge(GK).40questionswereaskedin eachsection.
Quantitat iveAptitude LogicalReasoning DataInterpretationand DataSufficiency ReadingComprehension

Breakup

Topic

No.of Ques.
40 40 40 40 40

No.of Marks
40 40 40 40 40

DifficultyLevel
Moderate Easy MixofEasyand Moderate Moderate MixofEasyand Moderate

Itwasdeclaredintheinstructionsthateachcorrectanswerwill carry one mark, while therewas anegativemarking of 0.25 marksforeachincorrectanswer.

GeneralKnowledge

Expected CutOffs An score of100+ (out of 160 i.e. excludingGK)shouldbegoodtogettingAMITY,BIMTech.,Christ andsomeothertopBSchools.

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Detail ed Anal ysis

N o.of Ques. Difficulty Level
Ide al Atte mpts Time sugge ste d IdealM arkstoget acallfromgood colle ge (Outof160)

Section

Topic

Marks

Qua ntitativeAptitude

40

40

Mode ra te

22+

35to40min.

22+

II

Da ta Inte rpre tation+ Da ta Sufficie ncy Re adingCom prehe ns ion +Englis hUs age

40

40

Eas yto Mode ra te

26+

35to40min.

26+

III

40

40

Mode ra te

20+

25to30min.

20+

IV

Logica lRe as oning

40

40

Eas yto Mode ra te

24+

35to40min.

24+

India na ndGloba l Environm e nt Total

40 200

40 200

Mode ra te

20+ 112+

10to12min. 150min.

20+ 112+

Note :Theide a lm a rks is outof160,s incethem arksobtaine dinIndia na ndGloba le nvironme ntque stionsdonotinclude in m e rit.

Exclusive Anal ysis

BASIC STRATEGY TO FOLLOW
Overalllevelofdifficultyofthepapercanberatedaseasytomoderate.FifteentoSeventeenquestions fromLR,Fourteen/FifteenquestionsfromGK,Fifteen/SeventeenquestionsfromQA,Seventeen/ EighteenquestionsfromDIandDSandsixtoeightquestionsfromEUshouldhavetoattemptedfirst. Ideallyastudentwhoisgoodtoselectthequestionstosolve,couldattempt68to72questionsinthe firsthouritself. SectionI QuantitativeAptitude(QA)
ThequestionsonQAwerefromtopicsTimeSpeedDistance,WorkandTime,Pipesandcisterns,Percentages,ProfitandLoss, Partnerships,Averages,andMixturesandAlligations,Trigonmetry,Geometry,mensuration,ProbabilityandPermutation &Combination.Thequestionswereofeasytomoderatelevelofdifficulty.Forawellpreparedstudentonanaveragenotmorethan 1.52minuteswouldberequiredtosolveonequestionofthisarea.ThedetailsoftheQAquestionsareasfollows Topic Timeanddistance Trigonmetry Mensuration&Geometry Workandtime,pipesandcistern Percentage,rario&proportion Profitandloss Partnership&Average Mixture&Alligations ProbabilityandP&C
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Questions 4 3 6 5 4 3 5 3 7

DifficultyLevel Easytom oderate Moderate Easytom oderate Easytom oderate Easy Easytom oderate Moderate Moderate Easytom oderate
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SectionII LogicalandCriticalReasoning(CR)
TocheckthestudentslogicalandanalyticalabilitiestherewerequestionsonRelations, Lineararrangements,CodingDecoding, Number and Alphabet Series , Venn Diagram , AssumptionsStatements, AssertionReason and StatementCourse of actionEtc.IngridpuzzleonemissingnumberweretofindStatementcourseofactionandAssertionReasonallotherquestionswereeasy. Onecouldattempt2428questionsinatimespanof35to40minutesfromthisarea.ThedetailsoftheLRquestionsareasfollows

Topic StatementCourseofaction DirectionSense Dataarrangement Codingdecoding Num ber&alphabetseries Venndiagram Assertion&reason CriticalReasoning Lineararrangement

Questions 4 2 4 5 5 6 4 6 4

DifficultyLevel moderate Easy Easy Easy Easytomoderate Easy Moderate Tough Easy

SectionIIIReadingComprehensionandEnglishUsage(RCandEU)
ThereweretotalfiveRCpassages.Total 20questionswereaskedonthesepassages.ThethemesoftheRCpassageswereon (1) Article on Human Genome Project from Nature Magazine 450 words (2) Performance of Telecommunication companieslikeBSNL,MTNLetc.400words(3)ThirteenthFinanceCommissionandGDP350words(4)Describing thelifeofpeoplelivinginEngland200words(5)Anautobiography200words. Thequestionsaskedweredirectandeasy.

FromEUareatherewerequestionsonFillintheBlanks,ParaJumble,SentenceCorrectionandZistoftheParagraph.Rest ofthequestionswereofmoderatelevelofdifficulty.

SectionIV DataAnalysisandSufficiency
Therewere30questionsfromDataInterpretation,5questionsonDataSufficiency(Fouroptionsdirect),and5questionsonData Comparison.Questionswereeasy.ThistimetherewasanewvarietyofDataInterpretationwithatriangularbardiagram wasthere.ThedetailsoftheDIquestionsareasfollows

Type Linegrah Caselet Twopiecharts Bargraph+linegraph MultipleBargraph TriangularBarGraph DataSufficiency DataComparision

Questions 4 5 42=8 4 4 5 5

DifficultyLevel Easy Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate Easy Moderate

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SectionV GeneralKnowledge
TheGKquestionswereamixtureofeasyandmoderatelevelofdifficulty.ThequestionswereondynamicaswellastraditionalGK.There werequestionsonEconomics,CurrentAffairs,AwardsandPrizes,BusinessandSports.Sincethisareawasonlytopassand themarksofthiswillnotbeincludeinmerit,anattemptof1820questionswillbesufficienttoachievethecutoffforthis area.

Overallanscoreof100+(outof160i.e.excludingGK)shouldbegoodtogettingAMITY, BIMTech.,ChristandsomeothertopBSchools.
At the end, asZig Ziglarsaid It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.. So keep your attituderightandwellpreparedforthetestsahead.

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