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IC : PTpnrXAT2007 (3) of (3)
Section III - English Usage and Reading Comprehension
41 questions were asked on Reading Comprehension (includin g a
poem) and English Usage. There were 23 questions on four RCpassages
and a poem. The themes of the RC passages were on Education , I
ndian Economy , Bayesian Theor y and Socialism ,while the poem was
based on philosophy . In English Usage there were questions from
Critical Reasoning, Para Jumbles, Contextual
Vocab, Puncuta tio ns etc. A det ai led break-u p of Lang uag e
secti on ques tio ns is as fo llo ws.
Topic/ Area Num ber of Quest ions DifficultyLevel
Reading Comprehension 23 Tough
Para Jumbles (Six Sentence) 4 Tough
Critical Reasoning 5 Moderate
Punctuations, Sentence Correction etc 4 Moderate
Contextual Vocab 5 Easy
A n at t e m p t 1 8 - 2 0 q u e st i o n s w i t h a n a c cu r
a c y o f 8 0 % s h o u l d b e d e c en t .
Essay
The topic of the essay for this year was
"Econ o m ic Gro w th w i th o u t en v i ro n m en ta l d am ag
e - a m i rag e o r a r ea l i t y "
Expected Cut-offs
I n st it u t e Cu t - o f f
XLRI BM 34 +
XLRI PIMR 33 +XLRI HR/ S. P. Jain 32 +
XIMB 29 - 31
GIM 27 +
LIBA 22 +
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