JMET 2003 - Pattern and Analysis

Pattern of JMET 2003

Number of Sections : 4
Marks for correct answer : 1
Marks for wrong answer : - 1/4
Total number of questions : 150
Total time allotted : 120 minutes
Sections Description No. of questions Ideal no. of attempts and time
I Verbal Communication 40 35-40 questions in 25 min.
II Logical Reasoning 40 30-35 questions in 35 min.
III Quantitative Ability 40 8-15 questions in 30 min.
IV Data Interpretation 30 17-20 questions in 30 min.
Total 150 120 minutes

An ideal number of attempts in this paper would be close to 90 to 100 questions with a strike rate of about 80% to 85%.

Expected ranks for different score levels
Ranks Net Marks
Top 100 70 +
100 - 500 65-70
500 - 1000 62-65


Analysis of the Paper
The general instructions did not specify whether there are cutoffs for individual sections. Since IITs gives ranks in JMET, it is expected that there would be no such cutoffs and maximizing the score would have been the top priority for students who had read the instructions carefully. Also, since the negative mark was -1/4 for every wrong answer and there were only 4 choices for every question, a student could have taken more chances guessing in this exam.

Section I - Verbal Communication
This was a very easy section. It consisted of 5 very simple sitters in the form of letter writing questions and another 9 easy fill-in-the-blank questions. The analogy questions also were easy for a student with good reading habits and/or with good vocabulary. However, the two RC passages, though of a short length, could have posed problems to some students answering the same. A good student would have attempted all of the 40 questions and a net score of 25 plus can be expected for a student in the top 100.

Section II - Logical Reasoning
This section had 6 questions on paragraph forming (verbal), 3 sets of very simple puzzles, 7 questions of Data Sufficiency and 9 questions of critical reasoning among other logical ability questions. The section as a whole can be termed as easy and a good student would have easily attempted 30 plus questions getting a net score of 22 to 24.

Section III - Quantitative Ability
This section proved to be a bouncer, a nasty one at that, to many a student. True to the expectation from the IITs, the section contained lots of pure math questions along with arithmetic ones and would have stumped quite a few. However, as has been mentioned earlier, the 'expected to perform equally in all sections' caveat was conspicuously absent and hence not scoring very high in this section may not come in way of getting a good rank in JMET. A very good student can expect to get about 10 plus marks in this section. But scoring around 6 to 7 would have been sufficient in a section as difficult as this.

Section IV - Data Interpretation
This section had 9 sets of questions. Each set with about 3 to 4 questions. Some of the easier sets were the ones on White-collar crime figures, BSE/NSE turnover, financial data on investment bankers and gap analysis (spider chart). However, since most of the graphs would have looked new to the student, a score of 15 plus in this section can be considered very good.

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