Management Aptitude Test (MAT)

Februar y 7, 2010

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heMATwasheldon7Februry,2010ataround30 cities ofIndia.MorethanOnelakhstudents appearedinthisexam.

TotalNumberofQuestions200 TotalTime150minutes TheMarkingScheme Onemarkforeachcorrectanswer. 0.25marsforeachincorrectanswer. TotalMarks 200 NumberofOptions4 Sections/SectionalTimeLimitTherewere5sections

MATwasthefourthentrancetestoftheMBAentrancetestseason after,IRMA,IIFTandCAT.Lakhsofstudentsprepareandappear forthetesteachyear.Morethan200institutesareaffiliatedwith thetest.ConsideringFebruary2010MATparticularlythereare around200institutesthattakingthisMATscores.

February2010MATwasontraditionallines.Thereweretotal200 questions to besolved ina time span of 150 minutes. Four alternativewereprovidedforeachquestions.40questionseach onReadingComprehensionandEnglishUsage(RCandEU), QuantitativeAptitude(QA),LogicalReasoning(LR),Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency (D I and DS) and GeneralKnowledge(GK).

Breakup

Topic
QuantitativeAptitude LogicalReasoning

No.of Ques.
40 40 40 40 40

No.of Marks
40 40 40 40 40

DifficultyLevel
Modera te Easy MixofEa syand Modera te Modera te MixofEa syand Modera te

Itwasdeclaredintheinstructionsthateachcorrectanswerwill carryonemark,whiletherewasanegativemarkingof0.25marks foreachincorrectanswer.

DataInterpreta tionand DataSufficiency Rea dingComprehension Genera lKnowledge

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

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S e c tio n

T o p ic

N o . o f Q u e s .

Ma rk s

D iffic u lty L e v e l

Id e al A tte m p ts

T im e s u g g e s te d

Id e alM ar k s to g e tac a llfr o m g o o d c o lle g e (O u to f160)

Q uantita tiv e A ptitude

40

40

Modera te

22+

35to40min.

22+

II

Data Inte rpreta tion+ Data S uffic ienc y R ea ding C ompre hens ion +E ng lis hUs a g e

40

40

E as y to Mode ra te

26+

35to40min.

26+

III

40

40

Mode ra te

20+

25to30min.

20+

IV

L og ic a lR e a s oning

40

40

E as y to Mode ra te

24+

35to40min.

24+

India nandG lobal Env ironme nt T o ta l

40 200

40 200

Mode ra te

20+ 112+

10to12min. 150m in .

20+ 112+

Note:T heide a lma rks is outof160,s inc e thema rks obta ine dinIndia na ndG lobalenv ironme ntques tions donotinc lude in merit.

Exclusive Anal ysis

Overalllevelofdifficultyofthepapercanberatedaseasytomoderate.15to17questionsfromLR,14/15questionsfromGK,15/ 17questionsfromQA,17/18questionsfromDI&DSand6to8questionsfromEUshouldhavetoattemptedfirst.Ideallyastudentwho isgoodtoselectthequestionstosolve,couldattempt68to72questionsinthefirsthouritself.

ThequestionsonQAwerefromtopicsTimeSpeedDistance,WorkandTime,Pipesandcisterns,Percentages,ProfitandLoss, Partnerships,Averages,andMixturesandAlligations,Trigonmetry,Geometry,mensuration,ProbabilityandPermutation &Combination.Thequestionswereofeasytomoderatelevelofdifficulty.Forawellpreparedstudentonanaveragenotmorethan 1.52minuteswouldberequiredtosolveonequestionofthisarea.ThedetailsoftheQAquestionsareasfollows

MathematicalAbility Topic Timeanddistance Trigonmetry Mensuration&Geometry Workandtime,pipesandcistern Percentage,rario&proportion Profitandloss Partnership&Average Mixture&Alligations ProbabilityandP&C Questions 4 3 6 5 4 3 5 4 6 DifficultyLevel Easytomoderate Moderate Easytomoderate Easytomoderate Easy Easytomoderate Moderate Moderate Easytomoderate

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To check the students logical and analytical abilities there were questions on Relations, Linear arrangements,Circular arraggement, CodingDecoding,NumberandAlphabetSeries,VennDiagram,AssumptionsStatements, Inputand Output,AssertionReasonAndStatementCourseofaction,GridpuzzleEtc.Ingridpuzzleonemisssingnumberweretofind iStatementcourseofactionandAssertionReasonallotherquestionswereeasy.Onecouldattempt2428questionsinatimespanof 35to40minutesfromthisarea.ThedetailsoftheLRquestionsareasfollows

LogicalReasoning Topic StatementCourseofaction Dataarrangement Codingdecoding Number&alphabetseries Venndiagram Gridpuzzle assertion&reason Lineararrangement Misc.(direction,bloodrelationetc.) Questions 4 4 2 5 2 2 4 4 13 DifficultyLevel moderate Easy Easy Easytomoderate Easy moderatetodifficult Moderate Easy Easytomoderate

ThereweretotalfiveRCpassages.Total 20questionswereaskedonthesepassages.ThethemesoftheRCpassageswereon (1) Financial collapse 2008 in Iceland (2) CSO & Growth rate in Bihar,Jharkhand, M.P. (3) Hyundai Car sale & its production(4)IndianStockmarket&Reliancepower(5)SALE&BSE. Thelengthofthepassageswasbetween300to350 wordsand4questionswereaskedoneachpassages.Thequestionsaskedweredirectandeasy.

FromEUareatherewerequestionsonFillintheBlanks,OneWordSubstitution,ParaJumbleandZistoftheParagraph.Rest ofthequestionswereofmoderatelevelofdifficulty.

Topic Fillintheblasnks(pair) Parajumbles Themebasedsmallparagraph Sentencecorrection Errorsinsentence

Questions 4 4 4 4 4

Difficultylevel Moderate Moderate Moderate Easy Easy

Therewere28questionsfromDataInterpretation,6questionsonDataSufficiency(Fouroptionsdirect),and6questionsonData Comparison.Theywereeasy.OneDIsetwasbasedonWaterusagein2006to2009(2piechart).Thissetwaseasy.two tableswereshowingNo.ofmagazinespublished&readershipofmagazines.thissetwaslittlecalculative.OneDIset wasbasedon productionofcar,itspercentage growth&carproduction invariousyears(Onebar graph+Twoline graph) .This set was little calculative & lengthy. Questions were direct from table and were easy.One caselet was basedonpopulationofsouthAsiancountries,infantbirthrate,literacyrateetc.Thissetwasmoderate.Thedetailsof theDIquestionsareasfollows

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DataInterpretation Type Linegrah Caselet Twopiecharts Bargraph+linegraph Table Questions 4 4 4 4 4 DifficultyLevel Easy moderate moderate moderate Easy

Note:Thefiguresinthebracketafterthetopicisrepresentingthenumberofquestionsofthatparticulartopicinthepaper).

TheGKquestionswereamixtureofeasyandmoderatelevelofdifficulty.ThequestionswereondynamicaswellastraditionalGK.There werequestionsonEconomics,CurrentAffairs,AwardsandPrizes,BusinessandSports.Sincethisareawasonlytopassand themarksofthiswillnotbeincludeinmerit,anattemptof1820questionswillbesufficienttoachievethecutoffforthis area. Somequestionswereasfollows: 1.InwhichstateDhudwanationalparkislocated? 2.Whoisstevenspelberg? 3.Primaisbrandofwhichproduct? 4.Jyotibasuwaschiefministerforhowmanyyears? 5.GDPgrowthrateinindia?

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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