TISS 2007

(21st January 2007)

As always, TISS was the least transparent exam of the season. No student who took
the test knew the weightage of individual questions, forget about the overall paper.
According to the prospectus, the written test should have been of 70 marks. But,
there were 120 Q's. How this gets converted to 70 marks is anybody's guess. For
the purpose off our evaluation we have assumed that all questions had equal
weightage and the total marks were indeed 70 as the prospectus mentioned. The
test-paper said that there would be negative marking for wrong answers, but the
extent of negative marking was not revealed! The paper was terribly easy. For a
well prepared student, clearing the cut-off score of 43 should be difficult.

• 120 Qs, 90 min. Likely Cut-Off

• 70 marks (negative marks for • TISS 43+ (as declared by TISS)
wrong answers)
• No sections
• 4 answer options per question

Overall Breakup of TISS 2007

Question Type No. of Qs Difficulty level
1 Quantitative Aptitude 40 Easy
2 Verbal Ability 15 Easy
3 Logical Reasoning 20 Easy
4 Social and Business Awareness 45 Average
Total 120 Easy

Question-Type Wise Analysis of TISS 2007

Quantitative Aptitude
• All 40 Q's were easy and even an
average student could have
attempted 25-30 Q's.
• The questions were largely from
Arithmetic topics like Number
System, Percentages and Ratio-
Proportion (around 25 Q's in all).
There were no questions on Speed,
though. The remaining questions
were related to forming Equations
and finding the roots of the
Equations (around 5-6 Q's),
Geometry (3-4 Q's), Probability (2-
3 Q's) and finding the Equation of
graphs (2 Q's).
Logical Reasoning
• This consisted of 3 sets of
Analytical Reasoning (Logical Data
Interpretation), each followed by 6-
7 Q's.
• All the three sets were quiet easy
and must-attempts. Only one set
(pertaining to Professors,
Institutes, Subjects and Degrees)
was confusing, but could have
been attempted with some effort.
• Overall, about 15-18 Q's could
have been attempted in 25 min.
Social and Business Awareness
 • One could have easily attempted
around 25 Q’s in 35 minutes and
that too at a very high accuracy.
Verbal Ability
• There were hardly any questions
on Verbal ability, and the 15 Q's
that were present were all on
Vocabulary and Idioms.
• The Vocabulary questions were on
Synonyms, Antonyms and
Analogies.
• Two new and interesting question
types were also introduced. The
Analogy questions had a twist! You
needed to find the pair that did-not
have the same relationship as the
reference pair. While the question
on Idioms pertained to the
situation where a particular idiom
was most appropriately used.
• One should have attempted all 15
Q's in 10 min.
• This question-type had 45 Q's in all
-- largely pertaining to principles of
Management and Legislature.
• A BCom student who had
undergone the 'Management
Production and Planning' (MPP)
course could have cracked this
section. Also present were some
Q's on recruitment policies and the
Company Act. There were some
questions on current and social
topics (e.g. Khairlanji killings).
• You could have attempted around
15-18 Q's in about 20 min. from
this area.

TISS 2007 Paper Attempt Strategy

Question Type No. of Target Time Target
Qs Attempt Allotted Marks
s
1 Quantitative Aptitude 40 25 35 min
2 Verbal Ability 15 15 10 min
3 Logical Reasoning 20 17 25 min
4 Social and Business Awareness 45 18 20 min
Total 120 75 90 min 50+