Analysis of CET - 2005

This year’s CET was tougher than usual. Visual Reasoning ruled the roost
and not much could have been scored in this area as the questions were
really tough. Quantitative Ability questions were difficult to spot. The
Verbal section was the score builder. Questions on "fill up the blanks" were
moderate and less time consuming. Data Interpretation questions were
simple but calculative. Two caselets on Analytical Reasoning were easy.
There was a single passage from Reading Comprehension which was easy to
crack. Questions based on coding, decoding, blood relation etc. were simpler
and easy to crack. There were 5 questions based on arrangement of
sentences which were easy. Syllogisms were simple and were scoring.
Deductive Reasoning questions were confusing but manageable. Data
sufficiency and Quantitative Comparison was easy.

As expected this year also CET did not show any major shift from its
previous year patterns. As the tradition of CET goes, the Reasoning
Questions were maximum in number.

Students who are not good at Problem Solving but good at Verbal Ability
were blessed as the paper had very few questions on Problem Solving which
were of moderate difficulty and the Verbal Ability Questions were very
easy.

The Grammar and Vocabulary based questions were of average difficulty

level.

Questions on Visual Reasoning, which has been a salient feature of CET,

were difficult and hard on the eye. The Data Interpretation Questions had
very close answer options making approximation difficult and one had no
other option than to calculate the answers. There were a few sitters in the
paper but one had to follow the strategy of smart browsing to locate them.
Smart preparation with enough practice of paper pattern of CET would
definitely get one in the best college.
 Sr.
Area Tested No of Questions Difficulty level
No
1 Verbal Ability and
50 Easy
Reading Comprehension
2 Reasoning 95 Average
3 Data Interpretation and
30 Tough
Data Sufficiency
4 Problem Solving 25 Easy
Total 200 Average

Sectional Breakup

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

Sr.
Area Tested No of questions Difficulty level
No
1 Reading Comprehension 15 Easy
2 Fill in the blanks 10 Easy
Sentence Correction/Miss
3 5+5 Easy
spelt word
4 Odd man out 5 Easy
5 Direct/Indirect speech 5 Easy
6 Analogies 5 Easy
Total 50 Easy
Reasoning

Sr.
Area Tested No of Questions Difficulty Level
No
1 Visual Reasoning 30 Tough
2 Mathematical Reasoning 5 Tough
3 Analytical Reasoning 20 Easy
4 Logical Reasoning 5 Easy
Coding, Decoding/ Blood
5 17 + 3 Easy
Relation
6 Inductive Reasoning 15 Average
Total 95 Average

Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency

Sr.
Area Tested No of Questions Difficulty Level
No
1 Data Interpretation 20 Tough
2 Data Sufficiency 5 Easy
3 Quantitative comparison 5 Easy
4 Total 30 Average

Overall the paper was of average difficulty level. Overall top score should be
145+.