CAT 2018 Slot 2 Analysis: Quant calculation intensive, DILR Difficult, VARC with Reduced RC Passages

CAT 2018 Slot-2 exam has got over at 5.30PM. Candidates have reported a difficult DILR and moderate to difficult Quant. However, the cAT 2018 slot 2 exam has remained easier than the Slot-1 exam.
Here is the detailed CAT 2018 Slot-2 exam Analysis. While there was no surprise element in the test structure of CAT 2018 Exam Slot-2, it had a few changes as compared to slot-1 exam.

CAT 2018 Exam Analysis: Slot 2 Pattern

Total Questions
Non MCQs
MCQs
Difficulty Level

VARC
34
7
27
Moderate

DILR
32
8
24
Moderate to Difficult

Quant
34
12
22
Somewhat Difficult

CAT 2018 Exam Analysis:Key changes inexam pattern

• DILR was on difficult side, Quant was calculation intensive
• RC Passages were found lengthy
• Non-MCQs have remained 27 as were in slot 1in CAT 2018 as compared to 26 in CAT 2017 with different number ofquestions in each section as compared to last year.
• VARC had 7 Non-MCQs, DILR 8 and Quant 12
• RC passages were reduced to 5 in CAT 2018 from 6 in 2017, with changed number of questions. 4 RC passages were followed by 5 questions and 1 RC passage was followed by 4 questions
• More Arithmetic and Algebra questions appeared in CAT 2018 slot-2.
• No change inScoring pattern:Scoring patternin CAT 2018 has remained to +3 for correct answer and -1 for wrong answer for MCQs and +3 for correct answer and0negativemarking for wrong answer in Non-MCQs
• Manynon MCQShad answer options also. The correct answers had to be typed in the given space.

CAT SECTION WISE ANALYSIS
VARC

• The first section on VARC had 34 questions.
• RC Based questions were 24
• Verbal Ability section had 10 questions
• Para Jumbles had 4 sentence structure and were easier
• Non MCQs were 7 without negative marking
• RC Passages were on Use of Technology for Employee Assessment, Saturn Righ, Snails, and others appeared with 25 questions in MCQ format

DILR

• Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) questions were of moderate to tough difficulty level.
• Candidates could not attempt beyond 10-12questions out of 32.
• Questions were in sets. Some of the topics are Room and Time arrangement for 7 people, Coding

Quantitative Ability

• Quantitative Ability section had 34 questions
• Maximum number of 12 Non-MCQs were in Quant section
• More questions were on Arithmetic and Algebra
• Quant had more calculation intensive questions
• Overall the section was slightly on higher difficulty side.

It is expected that there would not be much deviation in CAT slot 2 on the score front that could fetch the same percentile as in slot 1. The raw score between 155-165 could fetch a percentile of 98-99 in CAT 2018.