MEH-CET Tips by PT Education
Published On: 10 Feb 2009
The Maharashtra CET is the first
in a long line of State Level MBA entrance examinations that are
conducted by individual states for entrance to MBA colleges
affiliated to State Universities. Normally, these State level tests
are meant only for students who are domiciled in that state, but the
Maharashtra CET gains some significance among students from other
states because of the following reasons:
a) A percentage
of seats being kept open for students from other states (called as
OMS candidates)
b) The presence
of premier institutes like JBIMS (Mumbai), KJ Somaiya (Mumbai),
PUMBA (Pune), Sydenham College (Mumbai) and many more colleges in
the twin cities of Pune and Mumbai.
c) Scores of MAT
being also accepted in lieu of the CET scores.
Before looking at a strategy for
CET 2009, let us look at the paper structure for CET 2008.
Logical Reasoning - 75 questions
Visual Reasoning - 30 questions
Numerical Ability - 10 questions
Arithmetic - 5 questions
Quantitative Comparison - 5 questions
Data Interpretation - 20 questions
Data Sufficiency - 5 questions
Reading Comprehension - 15 questions
English Usage - 35 questions
If this indeed is the pattern
for this year's test too (as in all probability, it would
be) then the smart students should seek to score from the
following areas.
1. Data Sufficiency
2. Logical reasoning
3. Numerical ability
4.
Quantitative comparison
5. English usage
Questions from these sections
could be called having an easy to moderate level of difficulty
and more importantly, can be solved in the least possible time.
Students who are comfortable
with their Vocabulary should look towards the English Usage
section too as there are questions dealing with Synonyms -
Antonyms, Verbal Analogies etc. that can be done in the
least possible time. Ditto with the Reading Comprehension
section which has 1 passage followed by 15 questions based
on the passage itself. Even here, there are some vocabulary
based questions based on words sourced from within the passage.
Questions from Visual
reasoning can prove to be a stumbling block for many. Our
advice to the students would be that they should not spend
too much time on these questions. If the
logic/pattern/sequence does not hit you immediately, then
chances are that it would not strike you even after 10 minutes.
One "positive" trait
of the CET - much appreciated by the students! - is that
there is no negative marking. Therefore, students should
look to attempting all the questions.
Our advice to students would
be to genuinely attempt at least 140-150 questions and the
balance can be left to chance. But, remember, this advice
would become invalid, if this year the CET decided to
introduce negative marking!!
