After CAT and IIFT, students were mentally prepared for a tough paper. Especially because the Quant section in JMET has always been a very difficult one. However, JMET 2006 turned out to be a not so difficult paper – even as far as Quant is concerned. This would have been a relief to students and they would have been able to attempt enough questions in every section in order to clear the cutoffs. While the overall cutoff would be different for different IITs, the sectional cutoffs are likely to be the same for all the institutes and are therefore should be quite low.

No. of sections : 4
No. of questions : 150
Score: +1 for every right answer and -0.25 for every wrong answer
Total time 120 minutes

Quant

While there were the usual questions on higher maths which most of the students would be very uncomfortable with, there were also enough questions from Arithmetic for students to attempt during the 30 minutes that they would have budgeted for this section. Focusing on Arithmetic would also have been a good strategy because the higher maths questions were more diffciult than the other questions. A good student should have been able to attempt more than 15 questions in 25-30 minutes and should look at a score of 10+. Cutoff: 5-6.

Reasoning

This section had sets on analytical reasoning along with individual questions from the same area. There were also DS questions as well as questiuons that dealt with identifying flaws in the argument and identifying the logical order of statements. Even good students would not have been able to attempt more than 25 questions in 30 minutes. A good score would be 15+ while the cutoff is likely to be 11-12.

Verbal Communication

This section had some easy and direct questions. There were also some very difficult questions with very close choices. Overall, this section was slightly more difficult than in the previous years. There were 6 passages (smaller than the CAT passages) with 3-4 questions per passage. The other questions dealing with Antonyms, Analogies and Grammatica Errors were distributed throughout the section. While a good students can expect to attempt 30-35 questions from this section, the accuracy would not be too high because of the close choices. A good score would be 18+ while the cutoff is likely tobe around 10.

DI

There were 4 sets dealing with bar graphs, tables and line graphs. While the sets had very little of reasoning (unlike DI questions in CAT) and looked very easy, students would not have been able to attempt too many questions because many of the questions were time consuming. Only very good students would have been able to attempt more than 25 questions in 25-300 minutes and a good score here would be 15+. The cutoff is likely to be 9+/- 1.

Overall Cut-Off :

45+ for IIT Roorkee (only 1 call)
60+ for IIT Mumbai (all calls)

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The solutions will be available by 6PM on 11th Dec 2006 (Monday).