CAT 2014: Second slot, RC Passage lengthy, DI and LR again tricky & difficult

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MBAUniverse.com News Desk |
November 16, 2014
The CAT 2014 First day second slot finally over. According to CAT experts & Test takers, who took CAT 2014 today second slot? , that MBAUniverse.com spoke today, the Data Interpretation (DI) and Logical Reasoning (LR) questions were again tricky and time
The advice of the experts for CAT 2014 on November 23 is to go for more practice of difficult DI questions to ace the test.

The next and final round of CAT 2014 will be held on November 23. More than 90,000 candidates are expected to take CAT 2014 on this day.

 Exam Pattern:

Although Quant was rated moderate, the DI part was found again much difficult by the test takers. Quantitative section was on predictable lines, and Verbal too was only moderately tough. Many of them could not even arrive at the satisfactory answer options despite the fact the date based information was available in the problems. How tricky were the questions on DI can be understood by this fact. Verbal Section also give some pushes through RC Passages.

Overall the section was complex and the difficulty level was high.

CAT 2014 Logical Reasoning (LR) section analysis:

The section had questions related to 'Team-formation', 'Row-housing', and ‘Direction-sense'.Overall the section was lengthy and the difficulty level was high.

CAT 2014 Quantitative section analysis:

This section was on predictable lines. The section had questions related to Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry, Integers and so on.Overall the Quant section in CAT 2014 had moderate difficulty level.

CAT 2014 Verbal Section Analysis

There were three Reading Comprehension (RC) passages in the CAT 2014 paper. Each had four questions. The questions were probing candidates ability to understand and interpret the para. Unlike in past papers, there was no 'what is the tone of the passage' question in RC section.
Verbal section in CAT 2014 had questions on the topics like 'Error correction'. A question asked the test takes to understand 'what is the inference from the passage'.

There were no questions in CAT 2014 Verbal section in areas like Vocabulary & 'Para-completion'.

Expert advice for CAT 2014

The advice of the experts for CAT 2014 on November 23 is to go for more practice of difficult DI questions to ace the test.

Experts also warn that there could be change in pattern of CAT 2014 on November 23 to fox the candidates.

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