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CAT Centre, Date and Slot: IBSAR COLLEGE,CBD BELAPUR NAVI MUMBAI,3:15pm Slot

1) How many attempts you have made?
Sec 1 – 24 Sec 2 – 25 OA- 49

2) your last mock score? If you are there at http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an…ry-2011-a.html (Mock scores repository 2011) , please provide the link here.

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an…2011-a-31.html (Mock scores repository 2011)

3) How was your experience of the test?
The test was Very Smoothly Conducted. All credit should be given to Prometric Guys.
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing much everything has already been pointed out on the previous days reviews.
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
RC highlighting is an awesome feature. It really helps while reading RC.
6) your overall analysis of the exam: Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
QA – Very well set paper. Don’t consider this paper as a cakewalk as pointed out in many reviews prior to this. It no doubt has enough sitters for you to feed on, but still it has enough in it to test you.
DI – 3 sets (very easy, easy and tricky). I got confused in one set had to leave 2 questions in that.

Some few points which I would like to mention here, it might help people who are yet to give their exam:
a) No PnC/Probability Questions. NO QUESTION ON DS.
b) Don’t Ignore Trigonometry and Heights and Distance (if you think it’s your weak area), It is being tested significantly not only alone but also clubbed with other topics.
c) DI wasn’t calculation intensive( at least in my set, don’t know about others).I don’t think you would take much time to arrange 10 numbers of type (xyz.pq) in ascending order and tell me the 5th number.
d) Don’t let your concentration wander or else you might commit a calculation mistake(BLUNDER).
P.S: I did a subtraction mistake which took me precious few minutes to figure out

VA – what I felt was that VA was moderate. But then I am not the right person to comment on this part.
RC – 3 RC’s (3+ 3 +4). 1 was on Philosophy which was a Very difficult read but the questions were on a bit easier side. The Other 2 were Moderate side but the questions were difficult to answer, with very ambiguous answer choices.
LR – 9 Questions and simply a cakewalk.20 – 25 min is more than sufficient to answer them all togather.
P.S : NO DS QUESTIONS HERE AS WELL

7) Any other details or something you would like to share –
Some few points though already have been mentioned before but I would like to point it out again.
a) Don’t forget to use the Loo facility available just before the start of the exam.
b) After the end of Section -1 (or any time if you finish it before) you can ask for extra rough sheet of Paper. Personally I feel you must ask for a fresh sheet of paper before starting Section 2.
c) Don’t do any rough work on the back side of your admit card. All rough works are meant to be done only on the rough sheet provided. The guy beside my desk did it and the Procter took his admit card along with him.

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Q5. and Q6. above 🙂

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Q4)Numbers of form XXX5…will give 1 ’0′ = 4C3 * 3! = 24….[1]
Numbers of form XX25…will give 2 ’0′ at the end of which 1 is already counted in the previous case = 3C2*2! = 6…[2]
Numbers of form X125…will give 3 ’0′ at the end of which 2 are already counted = 2…..[3]

NOTE : the number 3125 = 5^5 will give 5 ’0′s of which 3 are already counted = 2 more zeros….[4]

Total number of zeros = 24+6+2+2 = 34…ANS

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Q1)  let no of questions = Maximum marks be N;
Passing marks = 40% of N = 2N/5

he attempted 4/5 N questions;

out of these in 3/4 * (4/5N) questions he secured 26% marks;

= 0.26 * 3/4 * 4N/5 = 0.78N/5

of the remaining 1/4 * (4N/5) questions he secured full marks = N/5

He fell short of the passing marks by 22marks;

2N/5 – [N/5 + 0.78N/5] = 22

0.22N/5 = 22 or N=500…..ANS….(b)

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