IBSAT 2017 Exam Analysis
IBSAT is a popular management entrance exam conducted by IBS Business School in a computer-based format. IBSAT is a two-hour long paper with 4 sections including Verbal Ability, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Ability and Data Adequacy & Data Interpretation. As part of the exam preparation, students usually go through the previous year's paper analysis in order to get an understanding of the paper pattern, type of questions, marking scheme and the level of difficulty that students should expect in the examination. Following is the detailed analysis of IBSAT December 2017.
The exam was conducted over a period of four days from December 21-24, 2017. As per the sources, there were no glitches in the paper. In terms of difficulty level, the IBSAT question paper turned out to be more difficult as compared to last year. There were a total of 140 questions and each question had 5 options. Out of the 5 options, candidates had to pick one. For every correct answer, one mark is awarded, and there is no negative marking for wrong answers. Candidates had the liberty to access all the questions at any time during the examination.
Take a look at the break-up of sections and number of questions asked in every section.
Section I: Verbal Ability - A
Since there was no negative marking, all the questions in this section could have been attempted in about 25 minutes with about 85% accuracy.
Section I: Verbal Ability - B
In this section, students had to take a cloze test containing 5 blanks. Out of the 5 questions, three were easy, and two were moderately tough. All these questions could have been answered in about 5 minutes with about 80% accuracy.
Section II: Reading Comprehension
About 20 to 22 questions in this section could have been answered in about 30 minutes with about 80-85% accuracy.
Section III: Quantitative Ability
In this section, around 12-15 questions could have been answered in about 25-30 minutes. This section was more difficult as compared to last year's IBSAT.
Section IV: Data Sufficiency and Data Interpretation
With moderate difficulty level, students could have solved around 15-17 questions on Data Adequacy and Data Interpretation in 25-30 minutes.