It’s time to gear up for the second exam of the season-NMAT. Those who sat for CMAT must now have had some idea about the atmosphere within the examination hall and the pressure during the actual exam. It’s time to learn from the mistakes you made in CMAT and move ahead. If in case, your CMAT exam went really well, don’t get complacent and again, move ahead.
NMAT to an extent is more or less like CMAT. One can get practice material for NMAT at Catgurus.com, One of the best online preparation platform. It focuses on speed and stamina of the examine and the questions asked are deep enough to test the quality of the students. With 120 questions to attempt in 120 minutes, you need to be on the tip of your toes every second. There has not been a significant change in the paper pattern or the type of questions asked in the past years and on the basis of past paper analysis, we bring you a section wise strategy to tackle NMAT.
Note that you are allowed to choose the order of the section.
Verbal:
This section has 32 questions and you are given only 22 minutes to solve them. Last time they introduced RCs as speed breakers. Around 2-3 RCs were found in almost all the papers. Then there were 10-12 Vocab based, around 7-8 grammar based questions. Remaining questions were parajumbles, match the following, etc.
• It might be a good idea to leave the RCs for last. First complete the sitters like synonyms, antonyms, grammar, etc.
• Try solving the question at one go. With only 22 minutes, the probability of you getting the time to revisit the questions is bleak.
• Read the instructions carefully and the make smart guesses. There is no negative marking in NMAT. Don’t leave any question unmarked.
Quantitative+ Data Interpretation:
This section has 48 questions and 60 minutes. Last time around 3-4 sets of DI were observed on an average here. The Quant questions covers almost all the chapters. There is a chance that you may get a calculation intensive DI set. In that case quant questions might be easier and vice versa.
• Don’t Don’t Don’t get stuck to a question? Leave your ego aside. You have a wide variety of questions at your disposal. Attempt the questions that you know well and are likely to get right.
• Mark the questions which will take a couple of minutes to solve but you are likely to be right. Leave them for second round.
• Practice calculation for DI.
Logical Reasoning:
This section has 40 questions and 38 minutes. Last time, there were questions based on every possible type of reasoning – sequences and series, arrangements, puzzles, coding- decoding, direction sense, blood relation based questions, weakening, strengthening, assumption based questions – literally everything under the sun.
• Again don’t get stuck to a question. Logical questions in the form of sequence and series, coding-decoding are easy to get stuck too. You have a large number of questions. Right question selection is very important and so is speed and accuracy.
NMAT exam is like a breeze. It ends in the blink of an eye. Be aggressive. Be smart. Have all the formulas on the tip of your tongue and also learn the shortcuts well. The paper is not really difficult and a sincere hardworking student should not find it difficult to crack. Reach the center on time. NMAT exam centers have a pretty lengthy procedure to verify your identity and make sure to print your admit card from the site mentioned.
All the Best!
