CET 2008 - An Overview

Data Interpretation
There were four sets of 5 questions each. This year, most of the questions were calculation intensive and almost all the sets had questions based on ratio, average and percentage.

Verbal Ability & Verbal Reasoning
A detailed analysis of the types of questions is given below

Odd One Out

There was only one question, which was quite simple and could be solved very easily. One had to identify the odd one in the group comprising lion, panther, fox, crocodile and whale.

Anagram

There was one question on Anagram. Understanding the question was a bit tricky because one had to first decide the number of words that could be formed using certain letters from the given word.

Analogy

The two questions in this set required one to identify a pair that had a similar relation to the stem pair. The questions dealt with very easy relations like that between ‘keys’ and ‘bunch’ and ‘resignation’ and ‘office’. They could be solved easily and required very little time.

Fill in the Blanks (paragraph)

The paragraph was on the different perceptions of evil in Western and Eastern religious traditions. There were 10 blanks and the correct option almost stood out. None of the options had difficult words. One could have easily solved this set.

Mark the Error

There were 10 questions in this set that tested basic concepts of grammar and usage. In certain cases one had to understand the context in order to arrive at the correct answer. This was again an easy set that could be easily tackled by an average student.

Sentence Correction

There were 15 questions in this set and they could be easily attempted because they tested the basic concepts pertaining to grammar and usage, for example, tense errors, use of correct auxiliary verb, appropriate preposition and phrasal verbs, word forms, etc. All the questions in this set had the fourth option as “None of these” and the fifth option as “No correction required” which could confuse a student.

Syllogisms

There were 5 questions in this set where three statements were given followed by two conclusions. One had to decide with the help of Venn diagrams which conclusion followed from all the three statements and not just two of them. This was a bit tricky because in many cases the conclusion did not follow from all the three statements.

Probably/Definitely True

In this set there was a small passage followed by 5 inferences and one had to decide whether the inference was definitely true/false, probably true/false or the data was inadequate. One had to read the passage carefully to arrive at the correct answer.

Implicit Assumption

There were 5 questions in this set where one statement was given followed by two assumptions and one had to decide whether the assumption was implicit in the statement. One had to read the statements carefully in order to arrive at the answer. This set was moderately difficult.

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