(Analysis) CET 2010 Analysis | An Overview
CET 2010 - An Overview
Maharashtra CET, held on 21 February 2010, was easier as compared to last year’s test, though some questions were time-consuming and lengthy. There were no major surprises in the pattern or the types of the questions. IMS students who had taken all the SimCETs would have found the test quite familiar. Especially SimCET 8, 9 and 10 were very close to this CET 2010.
Overall, a good score in this test would be 148+. Ideal no. of attempts should have been 175+.
Overall Test Structure
| Total Duration of the exam (minutes) | 150 minutes |
| Total number of questions | 200 |
| Total Marks | 200 |
| Marks per question | 1 |
| Negative marking | No |
| Mode of marking the ovals | Black Ball Point Pen |
Area Wise Test Structure
| Sections | Area | No. of questions |
Suggested Time (in Minutes) |
Ideal Good Attempt |
| 1 | Problem Solving | 15 | 15 | 10 |
| 2 | Data Interpretation | 20 | 15 | 15 |
| 3 | Verbal Ability & Verbal Reasoning | 61 | 40 | 47 |
| 4 | Reading Comprehension | 15 | 10 | 12 |
| 5 | Logical Reasoning | 54 | 45 | 40 |
| 6 | Visual Reasoning | 30 | 20 | 20 |
| 7 | Data Sufficiency | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Total | 200 | 150 | 148 |
Problem Solving
Some of the BODMAS questions were time-consuming. Also, one question from
mensuration was challenging. Rest of the questions were fairly easy. Also there
were problems on topics Time-Speed-Distance, Profit Loss, Geometry, Ratios and
Permutation and Combinations. One set problems on approximation based
calculation. Unlike previous years, questions from probability were missing.
| Type of question | No. of questions | Easy | Medium | Difficult |
| Arithmetic (calculations and approximations) | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Time-Speed-Distance, Profit Loss, Geometry, Ratios, Permutation and Combinations | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
Data Interpretation
There were four sets of 5 questions each. This year, most of the
questions were observation based and required simple calculations.
| Type of question | No. of questions |
| Table | 5 |
| Mixed Table | 5 |
| Line graph | 5 |
| Bar graph | 5 |
Students should have attempted all the questions, with at least 75% accuracy.
Data Sufficiency
This year there was only one set of 5 quant-based questions. Questions were of
very easy level. Students should have got 3-4 questions right easily.
Logical Reasoning
Overall, questions were slightly easier as compared to the questions from
previous years. Both the sets on arrangements were quick-shots. There was an
easy but lengthy set of 10 questions on Selection criteria. There were 5
questions on alphanumeric series and 5 questions from conditional coding, all of
which had easy to moderate difficulty level. There were 5 questions from word
arrangement machine (input-output type) were easy but slightly time consuming. 5
questions on number series were moderate to difficult.