SET 2019 Exam Analysis

Level of difficulty: Easy to Moderate

Ideal attempts: 32+

Ideal correct: 25+

Time to be allotted: 40 minutes

Section 2: Quantitative Ability

No of Questions: 40

Like last year, this year too, this section was dominated by Arithmetic based questions. There were 7 questions on Percentage and its application, of which 6 were easy and 1 was time-consuming, there were 4 easy questions on Ratio and its application. 2 questions on Time, Speed and Distance of which 1 was easy and the other was of moderate difficulty level. There were 2 easy questions on Averages and 1 easy question each from Time and Work, Set-theory, Circle, Mensuration and Rankings. 3 questions on Probability and 2 questions on Permutation and Combinations can be considered as easy to moderate. There were 2 questions each on Number series and Directions of which 3 were easy and 1 was moderate. 2 questions from Algebra were also fairly easy. 2 questions on Data Sufficiency were tricky. There were 2 sets of Data Interpretation, each consisting of 3 questions. 1 of these sets was based on Bar-graphs, while the other was based on Tables. Both of these sets were moderate.

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 70% of the questions were from Static GK. The questions on static GK had 2 questions in which the aspirants had to identify the person in the photograph and 2 questions in which the aspirants had to identify the logo. 3 of these questions were easy as the persons in the photographs were Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman; the Chief election commissioner of India and Logo of World Wild Fund for Nature. Apart from these, there were questions on Economics, Books and Author, Classical Dance forms and their proponents, Important Days, Geography, Vitamin-Deficiency, and Sports. While the questions from Current affairs ranged from Sports, Polity, Movies, Who’s who, Nobel Prize, National Film Awards. All in all, around 14-15 questions were easily doable with 100 percent accuracy. A well-read aspirant would have managed to attempt 7-8 more questions.

Level of difficulty: Moderate to Difficult

Ideal attempts: 23+

Ideal correct: 18+

Time to be allotted: 15 minutes

Section 4: Analytical & Logical Reasoning

No of Questions: 30

In this section, there were 5 questions of Arrangement & Puzzles in which the aspirant had to prepare a 5 x 4 matrix. These questions can be considered easy to moderate and could have been solved in 7 to 8 minutes. There were 2 questions on Blood-Relations, one of which was on Coded Relations. Both of these questions were easy. 3 questions on coding-decoding can be considered as easy to moderate. There were around 8-9 questions on verbal reasoning. These included Analogies, Syllogisms, Cause-Effect, Statement and Course of Action. Some aspirants faced slight difficulty in cause-effect and statement and course of action based questions. There were 4 questions on Set-Theory which were relatively easy. Other questions in this section were based on Clocks, Identifying the missing number in the grid, Identifying the missing alphabet in the series, both of these questions were time-consuming. There was a single question on Visual Reasoning which was very easy.

 Level of difficulty: Easy

Ideal attempts: 28+

Ideal correct: 24+

Time to be allotted: 45 minutes

Overall Analysis

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.

Wishing all the aspirants great luck for results and for the next stage of admission!

Team Endeavor