CAT 2018: Exam Analysis paper Moderate to Tough - No surprises

While there may be tougher exams in the world, The Common Admission Test to the Indian Institutes of Management and a host of other premier MBA colleges in India take the cake in our country.

The CAT 2018 is over now. The spot 2 was completed by 5:30pm across India.

CAT came out of the bag with two thuds and one loud bang. The level of difficulty of the DILR section provided a major reprieve to the nervous Janata as it broke with the trend of the last three years. It was a moderately difficult section, as compared to an out and out difficult section over the last 2-3 years.

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Experts also said that the Quantitative Aptitude (QA) section was the toughest of the three sections and was possibly the toughest QA section in past four years.

Mr. Prashanth Nair of T.I.M.E, said that the question paper had a mix of questions with quite a few doable questions. The number of lengthy questions in QA section seems to have gone up this year. He had predicted that for 99 percentile this year, students would have to score anywhere between 148 to 150 marks.

Mr Gautam Bawa of career launcher 
Said that the Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) section was moderately difficult which was a relief from last year. On number of questions he said that an attempt of 60 questions would be a good attempt he has predicted that a score of 150-155 could result in 99 percentile score. 

Mr. Arks Srinivas also of career launcher 
Said that QA section was the toughest this year. The questions in slot 1 and slot 2 did not vary much in terms of difficulty level. He also predicted a good attempt at 60+ questions with a score of 150 -155 leading to 99 percentile.