NMAT 2013 – the new Q type was easy. Rest like the previous year!!

Dear IMS Student,

NMAT 2013 on the whole has been pretty much like last year. As announced earlier by NMAT, the only new
element in the exam this year has been the couple of questions on Decision Making (which are actually
quite simple), that appeared in the Logical Reasoning Section.

Overall, the questions varied primarily from an easy to moderate level, with some tricky questions.
However, time playing a very crucial factor (with average time to solve a question in each section being very
less) one should ideally not get stuck on these tricky questions as there are a number of easy questions to
fall back upon to maximize your score.

Now coming to the sectional analysis:

In the Quantitative Skills Section (48Qs, section time: 60 mins), there were many questions from DI
and PS while fewer from DS. In Problem Solving, questions have been distributed evenly across
all areas of Mathematics (i.e. Numbers, Arithmetic, Modern Math, Geometry and Algebra) A
peculiar characteristic is that questions in each area of Problem Solving were in a sequence. For
Example say questions 1 to 4 would be single questions only on numbers and say questions 19 to
22 would be only on Geometry. Some students found a couple of DI sets a bit tough and
calculation intensive (with very close options). As mentioned earlier, it would be better to leave
these to the end.

Logical Reasoning section (40Qs, sectional time: 38 mins) had maximum questions on Logical
Reasoning (Arrangements, family tree, numerical grid ,coding , series, etc.), followed by questions
on Verbal Reasoning ( Statement –Conclusion, Conclusion based syllogisms, Statement –
Conclusion ,Critical Reasoning, etc) . There were very few questions on Decision Making. The
Decision Making questions enlists specific scenarios with possible courses of action to be taken
and you are to choose the most appropriate of them. The options here were quite easy to choose
from. On the whole this section seems to be the easiest in terms of level of difficulty.

Language Skills section had 2 Reading Comprehension Passages and the remaining on topics like
Mark the error (in a sentence), Fill in the Blanks, Jumbled paragraphs and Opposite & Similar
Meanings. Again here considering the time factor (32 Qs in 22 mins) one should leave RC
passages to the end as at least one of the passages is at a moderate level of difficulty. Apart from
questions on the Opposite and Similar meanings (for which one would require a reasonably good
strength in vocabulary), the other questions are very much on the easier side.

RESULTS

Going by the overall level of difficulty of the exam the cutoff scores should be pretty close to last year’s level.
The NMAT-2013 Scaled scores by section and exam total scaled score will be announced within 4 to 5
weeks after the candidate has tested. The percentile scores will be calculated after all the candidates have
taken their exam(s) and announced on 24 January, 2013 at NMIMS website www.nmims.edu.

Candidates will not be sent any results directly. NMIMS will publish scaled scores every 4-5 weeks and the
final percentile results on their website on January 24, 2013.

Scaled scores - All the test forms are equated to account for any differences in overall difficulty and the raw
test scores are placed on a common scale. This is done to ensure scores are comparable across test forms
such that the scores are not impacted by different candidates getting different test forms.

Percentile scores - The percentile rank or score shows how a candidate scored when compared to all other
candidates who took the exam (e.g. all candidates who gave the NMAT-2013). For example, if a candidate
is said to be at the 75th percentile, the candidate scored better than 75% of the candidates who took the
NMAT-2013.

All the Best!!

IMS