DETAILED ANALYSIS

MOCK TEST 12(2013-14)

INTRODUCTION

• Mock Test 12 follows the pattern of Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET) wherein the students are subjected to the same level of difficulty both in terms of question type and level.

• The mock test comprises of five sections with a total of 150 questions of one mark each.

• A student is expected to attempt this test in an actual test like environment wherein he has 150 minutes to complete the test and thus needs to schedule his/her time accordingly.

Section No. of Questions

Expected Time to Complete

Logical Reasoning 30 25Legal Aptitude 30 35

Analytical Reasoning 30 34Reading

Comprehension 30 36

General Knowledge 30 20

LOGICAL REASONING

This section was of moderate level of difficulty. The section consisted of:

Statement – Inference (4 questions)Statement - Assumption (4 questions)Analogy (6 questions)Analogy – Fill in the blanks (4 questions)Assertion - Reason (4 questions)Syllogism ( 4 questions)

The various questions are now described in detail:

DETAILS

QuestionS. No.

Key Concepts and Brief

Description

Overall Level of

DifficultyStrategy

1 to 4Statement - Inference

Moderate The questions were based on interpreting the statement correctly. All four questions were doable and so, should have been attempted.

5 to 8 Statement – Assumption

Moderate

The questions were of moderate level of difficulty. If meddling with the assumption affects the statement, it can be safely marked as a valid assumption and the vice versa is also true. All 4 questions should have been attempted.

9 to 14 Analogy Moderate

These analogies were either logic based or language based. None of the question was likely to pose much problem. So, at least 5 on 6 questions should have been attempted.

DETAILS

QuestionS. No.

Key Concepts and Brief

Description

Overall Level of

DifficultyStrategy

15 to 18 Analogy (FIB)Easy-

Moderate

These questions required some knowledge of legal terms and punishments. At least 3 out of 4 questions should have been attempted.

19 to 22 Assertion -

ReasonModerate

The questions were of moderate level of difficulty. Some amount of general knowledge was required to handle them. All the questions should have been attempted.

23 to 26Statement - Argument

Moderate

All the questions were of moderate level. Each word needed to be given proper attention. If you could sense a gap in the statement and argument, the argument could be considered weak and if the argument convincingly supported the argument, it should be considered strong. All questions were doable.

27 to 30 Syllogiam Easy The questions on syllogism were based on basic rules of syllogism. Therefore, all the questions should have been attempted.

LEGAL APTITUDE

This section had 30 questions on Legal Aptitude comprising of both Legal Reasoning as well as Legal Knowledge. The section consisted of  •Legal Reasoning (20 questions)•Legal Knowledge (10 questions) Overall, the section was of Moderate difficulty level. The Legal Reasoning section specifically tested the ability of students to understand and interpret the legal principles and application of the same to the factual matrix to reach the best answer.

And, in order to answer the questions based on Legal Knowledge, students were expected to have basic knowledge of concepts under Law of Contracts.

An attempt between the range of 26-28 would be considered a good attempt for this section.

DETAILS

• Legal Reasoning: The Legal Reasoning part of mock 12 was very much manageable. It was dominated by questions from Law of Contracts and Torts. Then there were questions from Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property Law and General Legal Principles. A stalwart approach towards legal reasoning makes it a very scoring sub-section of the paper.

• Legal Knowledge: The Legal Knowledge section had a fair distribution of questions from all the subjects i.e. Criminal Law, Torts, Constitution, Law of Contracts, Family Law and general principles of law.

DETAILS

Topics Question Numbers Number of Questions

Difficulty Level

Legal Reasoning Legal Knowledge

L.R. L.K.

Criminal Law 31 1 Easy

Torts 32, 33, 40, 47 4 Easy

Constitution 34, 49, 50 3 Moderate

Family Law 35 1 Easy

Contracts 36, 41, 44, 46 51-60 4 10 Moderate

Intellectual Property

45 1 Moderate

Important Statutes 37-39, 42 4 Difficult

General Principles of Law

43, 48 2 Easy

QUESTION ANALYSISQuestion 37 - 39: This set of question consists of 5 principles and a long set of facts followed by three questions. The Principles are based on certain topics from Consumer Laws. This question is slightly different from the others as it a multiple principle based question on the topic of consumer laws, unusual than the ones usually on constitution, torts or contracts. So, one should definitely attempt this question for experience purpose. The questions that follow are also not very difficult.

W.r.t question 37, Satish will not qualify as a consumer because he was sourcing Potassium for commercial purposes and going by Principle 2, any person who buys any goods for commercial purposes will not come under the purview of consumer. Hence, option (a) would be the correct answer.

W.r.t question 38, Indo-Potassium will be liable for commission of restrictive trade practices because the price of Potassium and even the supply trend was affected because of the division of market areas. Hence. Option (a) would be the correct answer.

W.r.t question 39, Option (b) would be the most appropriate of the options because option (a) and (c) are stating about deficiency of service but the facts did not have any service in picture.

QUESTION ANALYSISQuestion 49 - 50: question 49 and 50 are based on the same set of facts which are reasonably long. However, the Principle for the same is pretty simple and easy to understand in a single reading.

In Question 49, we need to figure whether The Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies will qualify to be State under Article 12. Going by the facts provided, it can be easily discerned that the institute is functionally as well as financially controlled by the Government and as the principle clearly states that a body will be considered to be State under Article 12 if it is functionally and financially controlled by the Government. Hence, Option (c) will be the correct answer.

W.r.t. question 50, in the same facts situtation, if the Institute is not State within the meaning of Article 12, then Mudit will not be able to file a writ petition against the same because a writ petition can be filed only against thew the bodies which qualify to be State within Article 12. Hence, option (b) will be the correct answer.

ANALYTICAL REASONING

This section of the test was of Moderate level of difficulty. This section consisted of

15 questions of Analytical Reasoning5 questions of Series3 questions of Coding Decoding2 questions of Puzzle1 question of Analogy2 questions of Blood relations1 question of Calendar1 question of Directions

DETAILSQuestion S. No.

 Key concepts and brief description

 Topic Level of difficulty

65 – 67, 72 – 74, 80 – 84, 87 – 90

Analytical Reasoning Analytical Reasoning

Moderate to difficult

61, 69, 75, 77, 85 Number series Series Moderate

70, 76, 86 Coding Decoding Coding Decoding Easy

63, 64 Puzzle Puzzle Moderate

71 Analogy Analogy Easy to Moderate

68, 78 Blood relations Blood relations Easy

62 Calendar Calendar Easy

79 Directions Directions Easy

READING COMPREHENSION

This section was of moderate level of difficulty. The section consisted of:

4 RC Passages (Total 25 questions)1 cloze passage (Total 5 questions)

The various questions are now described in detail:

DETAILS

Question S. No.

Key Concepts and Brief Description

Overall Level of Difficulty

Strategy

91 to 95Reading

Comprehension (Passage 1)

Moderate Most of the questions were based on inference of specific details. A close reading of the passage should have made helped the student attempt all 5 questions.

96 to 100Reading

Comprehension (Passage 2)

Difficult

The passage was a complex read but once the central idea of the passage is understood, the details of the passage start to fall in the right place. Except for questions 96 and 97, which were difficult due to close answer options, the other three questions should have been attempted.

101 to 105Reading

Comprehension (Passage 3)

Moderate-Difficult

The passage was easy to read and the questions that followed ranged from moderate to difficult level. At least 4 on 5 questions should have been attempted.

DETAILS

Question S. No.

Key Concepts and Brief

Description

Overall Level of Difficulty

Strategy

106 to 115

Reading Comprehension (Passage 4)

Moderate-Difficult

The passage required a close reading of the details given because most of the questions were based on inference of specific details of the passage. At least 8 out of 10 questions should have been attempted.

116 to 120

Cloze Passage Easy

The passage required to be read first in order to understand its context and then the blanks needed to be filled accordingly. Once it was done, filling the blanks was fairly easy. All the questions should have been attempted.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

• This section of MOCK TEST – 12 has 30 questions in all. This

test primarily focused on current GK.

• Out of total 30 questions, only 8 questions were from static GK

and 22 questions from current affairs. Static GK was mainly

oriented towards general economy and misc.

• Overall difficulty level was moderate.

• Current affairs were mainly based on personality; apart from it

questions were also from sports and places misc. field.

• The difficulty level of current affairs was easy to moderate.

• Further, the final break-up summary can be analyzed with the

help of following table:

DETAILS Static GK Current GKSection No. of

QuestionsDifficulty level Section No. of

QuestionsDifficulty level

History 1 Hard National Events

- -

Geography (India & World)

- - International Events

  - -

Indian Polity & Constitution

- - Personality 9 Easy to Moderate

Economy 4 Moderate to Hard

Places 3 Easy

Science & Tech - - Awards & Honors

2 Moderate

Misc.

 

3

Easy to Moderate

Sports 7 Moderate

Misc. 1 Moderate Total 8 22

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