TG ICET Exam Analysis 2026: Shift-wise, Section-wise and Topic-wise Analysis of All Three Shifts

TG ICET 2026 was held in three shifts over two days, and all three were of moderate difficulty overall. If you are looking for the TS ICET exam analysis 2026, this is the same exam under its new name. Check key highlights in table below

TG ICET Exam Analysis 2026: Key Highlights

Each shift had exactly the same structure: 200 questions split the same way across Sections A, B and C, and each topic sat at the same question numbers. Shifts differed mainly in the style of questions within a topic. The table below gives the TG ICET section-wise analysis of difficulty for each shift, and so the TG ICET difficulty level at a glance. These ratings are MBAUniverse.com's assessment after solving every question. In this TG ICET shift-wise analysis, Shift 2 had the toughest Analytical Ability section, because its analogies relied on number-theory ideas. Shift 3 had the easiest Analytical Ability section but the hardest vocabulary. Mathematical Ability was steady across all three shifts.

Source: MBAUniverse.com analysis of the official TG ICET 2026 papers.

Shift 1 of TG ICET 2026 was held on 13 May 2026 from 10.00 AM to 12.30 PM and was of moderate difficulty. Its Analytical Ability section leaned heavily on prime numbers, Mathematical Ability was balanced, and Communication Ability was easy, with three classic literary reading passages.

• Analytical Ability: prime numbers drove the Series questions. At least 10 of the 25 Series questions were built on primes, from analogies using consecutive primes to a missing-term series of alternate primes. Odd-one-out questions included animals grouped by diet and Indian capitals. The Data Analysis sets were a line graph of two companies' profits, two pie charts of crop-wise cultivated area in two states, and a sets problem on languages spoken by 200 members.

• Mathematical Ability: surds and indices came early in the section and were calculation-heavy. Mensuration covered a path around a park, bricks in a wall, a cone and a water tank. The trigonometry questions needed careful simplification of standard ratios.

• Communication Ability: the three reading passages were on Dr Johnson as a conversationalist, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and a sea voyage through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Business terms included acid test, amortization, balance sheet, human capital and KPI.

Shift 2 of TG ICET 2026 was held on 13 May 2026 from 2.30 PM to 5.00 PM and was of moderate difficulty overall, with the toughest Analytical Ability section of the three shifts. Its Communication Ability section was easy, with every reading passage set in the workplace.

• Analytical Ability: the analogies tested number-theory concepts such as the number of divisors, highest common factor, least common multiple and how many numbers are co-prime to a given number. These take longer if you have not practised them. The Data Analysis sets were a table and line diagram of people affected by viruses, a pie chart of computer companies' market share, and a Venn diagram of students' interest in four subjects. The verbal Data Sufficiency questions included a code language and a family-tree question.

• Mathematical Ability: two questions dealt with the area of a room's four walls, and the mensuration block added a frustum of a cone, a copper wire and the earth dug out of a well.

• Communication Ability: all three reading passages had a business theme: computer technology at work, business communication and time management. Even the vocabulary questions used office sentences, with words such as arbitrary, diligence, ratified and implemented. Business terms included proxy, minutes, quotation, goodwill and circular letter.

Shift 3 of TG ICET 2026 was held on 14 May 2026 from 10.00 AM to 12.30 PM and was of moderate difficulty. Its Analytical Ability section was the easiest of the three shifts, while Communication Ability was the hardest, because of less common vocabulary and technical terms.

• Analytical Ability: all 10 analogies used letters, most of them shifting the letters of a word by a fixed pattern. Odd-one-out and missing-term questions used prime numbers, triangular numbers, cubes and multiples of 11. The Data Analysis sets were a table of pass percentages in Classes VIII to XI, a bar chart of students who appeared and passed, and a sets problem on boys and girls playing cricket and hockey. The seating question had eight people around a circle.

• Mathematical Ability: the opening question on large powers (675⁴ × 240⁶ × 864⁵) was lengthy. Mensuration included recasting a sphere, laying tiles and a circle inside a rectangle.

• Communication Ability: the vocabulary was harder, with words such as puckish, emaciated, indolent, malevolent and extempore, and a question on "continual" versus "continuous". The reading passages covered research on grammar teaching, an essay on the new generation, and radium rays. Business and computer terms included pari passu, opportunity cost, write-down, SCSI and DPI.

In this TG ICET section-wise analysis, Section A, Analytical Ability, had 75 questions in every shift, in the same order: 20 Data Sufficiency questions, 25 Series questions, 10 Data Analysis questions, 10 Coding and Decoding questions, and 10 Date, Time and Arrangement questions. The TG ICET topic-wise weightage in this section was identical across shifts, and Data Sufficiency alone carried 10% of the total marks.

Source: MBAUniverse.com analysis of the official TG ICET 2026 papers.

Data Sufficiency: each question gives two statements, and you decide whether one, the other, both together or neither is enough. The syllabus says questions 1 to 15 are mathematical and questions 16 to 20 may be verbal. In 2026, the first 15 covered averages, number properties, geometry, trigonometry and statistics, while the last five were mostly everyday word problems on ages, costs and distances, with Shift 2 adding a code language and a family-tree question.

Series: this was where the shifts differed most. Shift 1 built its Series questions on prime numbers, Shift 2 on number-theory concepts, and Shift 3 mainly on letter patterns.

Data Analysis: each shift had three data sets, always in the same order: a graph or table (3 questions), a chart (3 questions) and a sets or Venn diagram problem (4 questions).

Coding and Decoding: questions 56 to 60 were a group of five based on one coding rule, such as a letter-to-symbol table with conditions or a circular alphabet in which vowels and consonants move differently. Questions 61 to 65 were single questions on letter shifts, letter-to-number codes, word reversal and swapping letter pairs.

Date, Time and Arrangement: the mix of these 10 questions was identical in all three shifts.

Source: MBAUniverse.com analysis of the official TG ICET 2026 papers.

Section B, Mathematical Ability, had 75 questions in every shift: 35 on Arithmetical Ability, 30 on Algebraical and Geometrical Ability and 10 on Statistical Ability. Coordinate geometry (8 questions) and mensuration (7 questions) were the largest topics, together making up 20% of the section in each shift.

Source: MBAUniverse.com analysis of the official TG ICET 2026 papers.

The TG ICET most asked topics in Mathematical Ability, across the three shifts, were coordinate geometry (24 questions), mensuration (21), and then five topics with 12 questions each: numbers and divisibility, percentages and profit and loss, polynomials, trigonometry, and plane geometry of lines, triangles and quadrilaterals.

Statistical Ability always had 10 questions, but the mix varied a little between shifts:

Source: MBAUniverse.com analysis of the official TG ICET 2026 papers.

Section C, Communication Ability, had 50 questions in English in every shift: seven parts of five questions each, followed by three reading comprehension passages of five questions each. It is the shortest section, but 10 of its questions test business and computer terminology, which you can prepare almost completely in advance.

Source: TG ICET 2026 Syllabus; MBAUniverse.com analysis of the official TG ICET 2026 papers.

In our TG ICET 2026 analysis, the business and computer terms asked are a good guide to the level expected. All of them are standard terms from office work, accounting and basic computing.

The reading passages were short, about 90 to 220 words each, and most questions could be answered directly from the text. Shifts 1 and 3 used older literary and essay-style prose, while all three passages in Shift 2 were about the workplace. The grammar questions were at a basic level: choosing "an" before a vowel sound, the right preposition, the correct tense, and the passive form of a question or command.

TG ICET 2027 exam dates will be announced soon, and no change in the exam pattern has been notified so far. For the TG ICET 2027 exam analysis, the 2026 papers are the best guide: expect the same 200-question blueprint, the same topic-wise weightage and many of the same question types.

• Expected pattern: 200 questions in 150 minutes, with Analytical Ability (75), Mathematical Ability (75) and Communication Ability (50), no negative marking and TG ICET qualifying marks of 25% (50 of 200). Check the TG ICET exam pattern page for any change once the notification is out.

• Live analysis on exam day: MBAUniverse.com will publish a live, shift-wise TG ICET 2027 exam analysis on the day of the exam, with section-wise difficulty and the topics asked in each shift. Bookmark the TG ICET page for updates.

TG ICET Exam Analysis 2026 points to a simple strategy for TG ICET 2027: attempt all 200 questions, because there is no negative marking; manage one 150-minute block well; and give most of your practice time to the topics that carry the most questions.

1. Attempt every question. A wrong answer costs nothing in TG ICET, so never leave a question blank. Use elimination to improve your chances on the questions you are unsure about.

2. Plan your time. You get 150 minutes for 200 questions, an average of 45 seconds per question, with no separate time limit for each section. A workable split is about 55 minutes each for Sections A and B and 40 minutes for Section C (MBAUniverse.com suggestion).

3. Know the TG ICET qualifying marks. You need 25% (50 of 200 marks) to qualify; no minimum is prescribed for SC and ST candidates. Qualifying is easy for most candidates, so aim for a high rank, not just the cut-off, because your rank decides your college in TG ICET counselling 

4. Give extra weight to Analytical Ability. When two candidates have the same total, the tie is broken first by Section A marks and then by Section B marks.

5. Prioritise the TG ICET most asked topics. Data Sufficiency (20 questions), Series (25), coordinate geometry (8) and mensuration (7) together carry 60 of the 200 marks.

6. Practise the repeated question types. Work through the 14 types in the table above until each one takes under a minute.

7. Build a terminology list. Ten questions in each shift came from business and computer terms. A two-page list of common terms can earn you most of these marks.

For a complete plan, read the TG ICET preparation guide, check the TG ICET pattern and TG ICET syllabus and practise full papers on the TG ICET mock test page.

The TG ICET Exam Analysis 2026 Complete Guide brings this whole page together in one PDF: the TG ICET shift-wise analysis of difficulty, the topic-wise weightage of all three sections, the Data Analysis sets and terminology asked in each shift, the 14 repeated question types, and the preparation lessons for TG ICET 2027.

TG ICET Exam Analysis 2026 shows that the Telangana entrance test for MBA, held in three shifts on 13 and 14 May 2026, was of moderate difficulty and followed one fixed blueprint. TG ICET Exam Shift 2 had the toughest Analytical Ability section and TG ICET Exam Shift 3 had the hardest vocabulary. TG ICET Exam Analysis 2027 will be published on the exam day itself on MBAUniverse.com.