JMET 2010 Post Exam Analysis

  The JMET 2010 had four sections with each section having 30 questions each like last year. There were four options for each question, each correct answer carried +1 mark while each wrong answer fetched -0.25 marks. The total time available for the test was 180 minutes.

    The four sections were Verbal Communication,Logical Reasoning, Quantative Ability and Data interpretation and sectional cut-off was mentioned in the paper.

The details of the question papaer are:
 


Verbal Communication:

In VA , the RC passages were short but inferential, specially the one on the evolution of philosophical thought.The VA questions were moderate and most of them could be done. The questions based on direct vocab were not easy and were only possible to do if the meaning of the word was known.

Logical Reasoning:

The logical reasoning section also had questions on verbal reasoning which is pretty common in JMET. There were 13 questions of mathematical reasoning which were easy to do leaving one or two. The questions on verbal and logical reasoning were of moderate difficulty level and most of them could have been solved. A few questions were confusing and ambiguous though. In one question based on familty tree the question had the name Rita while the answer options contained the name Geeta which created some confusion. The number of questions on syllogisms and logical conditions were a bit too many. Few of them were apparently easy but not easy when actually tried.
Overall an attempt of 22-24 was good.

Quantitative Ability:

The section of quantitative ability was most evenly balanced compared to other sections and covered the whole spectrum of syllabus ranging from basic questions on time and distance to advanced questions on functions and differential calculus. There were approximately 15 questions from Basic arithmetic and algebra, 6 questions from Geometry and rest were from either from Permutations and Combinations, Probability or Calculus.

Most of the questions were doable and an attmept of 24-25 questions should have been made.

Data Interpretation:

DI was arguably the easiest section of the lot. And barring a set on Scatter plot all sets were easy and had questions based on direct observation without asking for long calculations.  There were three sets on Line and Bar Graphs, Two sets on Table and Caselets, One set on Pie chart and one scatter plot.

One should have attempted a minimum of 24-25 questions in this section.


Overall the paper was more or less like last year with the difficulty level in QA and VA a notch above than last year.

For a student to manage at least a call from one of the IITs he should score around 70-72 marks.