SET General Exam Analysis 2018

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SET GENERAL -18 Exam Analysis

SET General Analysis – 2018

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Total Questions: 150

Total Marks: 150

Total Duration: 150 minutes (No sectional Time Limit)

Marking System: +1 for correct, 0 for incorrect

This was the first online SET General. As far as exam conduction is concerned, the authorities have done a fantastic job in providing a smooth interface, infrastructure and glitch-free test conduction. The pattern and question format remained the same as last year.

Paper Pattern:

SR No	Section	Questions	Marks
1	General English	40	40
2	Quantitative Ability	40	40
3	General Awareness	40	40
4	Analytical & Logical Reasoning	30	30
Total		150	150

Section 1: General English

No of Questions: 40

This section was pretty much similar to last year SET with not much of surprises or shocks. It was highly dominated by Vocabulary and its application based questions such as Synonyms, Antonyms and Word-based analogies. There were two passages of Reading comprehension with one set having four and other one having three questions respectively. Most of the questions were direct and easy. There were five to six questions of Verbal Reasoning such as Statement-conclusion and Course of action. Apart from these, there were three Grammar based Fill in the blanks, two questions from Odd one out and one question from Word usage. A prepared aspirant with good hold over Vocabulary would have felt less difficulty in this section.

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Ideal attempts: 30+

Ideal correct: 24+

Time to be allotted: 40 minutes

Section 2: Quantitative Ability

No of Questions: 40

The section had questions dominated by Arithmetic. There were questions ranging from topics such as Percentage & its application, Numbers & its application, Algebra & application, Ratio & its application, Time & Work, Time-Speed-Distance, Permutation and Combination, and Mensuration. There were six questions on Data Interpretationspread across two sets, which were easy. Two questions were asked from Data Sufficiency. There was one question from Statistics and Cube-cutting each.

Level of difficulty: Easy to Moderate

Ideal attempts: 32+

Ideal correct: 26+

Time to be allotted: 50 minutes

Section 3: General Awareness

No of Questions: 40

This section was also aligned with last year’s SET paper. Approximately 75% of the questions were from Static GK. This would have helped those aspirants who would have kept a track of SET General 2017. The Static GK questions ranged from Awards, Economics, Authors & Books, Geography, Entertainment, Sports, General Science and World organizations. While the questions from Current affairs ranged from Sports, Polity, Government schemes and Film awards.

Level of difficulty: Moderate to Difficult

Ideal attempts: 22+

Ideal correct: 18+

Time to be allotted: 15 minutes

Section 4: Analytical & Logical Reasoning

No of Questions: 30

Following the trend of SLAT 2018, this was the easiest section in SET 2018 too. The section had a very straight-forward distribution of questions. There were six to seven questions of Arrangement & Puzzles, four questions from Odd one out, three questions from Syllogisms and Course of action each, two to three questions from each of Coding-decoding, Analogies and Cause & Effects.

Level of difficulty: Easy

Ideal attempts: 28+

Ideal correct: 24+

Time to be allotted: 45 minutes

Overall Analysis

SrNo	Section	Questions	Ideal Time	Good Attempts	Good Score	Level of Difficulty
1	General English	40	40 mins	30+	24+	Moderate
2	Quantitative Ability	40	50 mins	32+	26+	Easy to Moderate
3	General Awareness	40	15 mins	22+	18+	Moderate to Difficult
4	Analytical & Logical Reasoning	30	45 mins	28+	24+	Easy
	Total	150	150	110+	92+	Moderate

Cut Off:

It is very difficult to predict exact cut-off for each college as the number of applicants is yet not disclosed. But, on the basis of cut-offs given in last two years and comparing the level of difficulty of the exam with that of last year, we can predict the following cut-offs.

Course	Symbiosis Campus	Predicted Cut-offs (General Category)
SCMS (BBA)	Pune	90
SCMS (BBA)	Noida	86
SIMC (BMS)	Pune	84
SSE (BSc Economics)	Pune	88
SSLA (BA/BSc)	Pune	82
SICSR (BCA / BBA IT)	Pune	80