CAT 2007 Analysis and Cutoffs (By PT Education)

Source: PT India

Cutoffs:
Quant: 30-32
VA: 30-32
DI/LR: 38-40

PT representatives just mentioned on TV (Zee News) that a score of 110+ is going to guarantee an IIM call.

For the CAT aspirants across the nation, November 18, 2007 was the special day. As it was probably the final test in which their performance will be responsible for their destiny ahead. The pressure to perform well was obvious. Students were warming up for the final race by their own ways. Some students were trying to entertain themselves by murmuring and giggling, some were just seated quite and some have closed their eyes and hands for a prayer. All these activities suddenly changed into a pin-drop silence when at 10:30 sharp the bells rang and the invigilators announced to start the test. The test papers were opened now and the reverse count of 9000 seconds was started.

After initial checking and planning of the test paper the students were busy in solving the questions; things started taking shape. For those who had - for months together - dreamt of nothing but the best, each moment brought immense joy and exhilaration.

The major surprise in this year’s CAT was that there were negligible amount of Logical Reasoning questions in the paper and the return of DS questions. The MA section of the paper was moderate, while the DI + DS section was easy and the Language sections was tough. An overall attempt of 38+ questions with 80-85% accuracy will be decent.

The majority of the questions in MA section were from Number Systems, other topics covered were Averages, Function, Area and Volume, Linear and Quadratic Equations, Mensuration, Time, Speed and Distance, Stocks and Shares, Permutation and Combination, Maxima and Minima and Plane Geometry. The difficulty level of questions were moderate. One set of four questions were on Data Sufficiency with four options. The following table gives the detail breakup of the section.



The second section of the test was dedicated to DI and DS questions. Total 21 questions from DI and four questions from DS were asked. There were total five DI sets based on tables, four of which had four questions each and one had five questions. The DS questions in this section had five answer choices.
Following table represents the detail breakup of the section.



In the third section there were questions from Reading Comprehension (RC) and English Usage (EU). There were four RC passages of three questions each. The EU questions were on Grammar, Logical Completion of Paragraph, Para Jumble and Sentence Correction. The RC passages were tough and the answer choices were close. The following table gives the detail breakup of the section.