• 200 Qs, 150 min.
• 200 (5 multiple choices, no negative marks.)
• No sections

• 145

Total

• There were 20 Q's on Pure Math (10 Q's on BODMAS, 5 Q's on Probability, 5 Q's on miscellaneous math). The 10 Q's of BODMAS were calculation-intensive and required some approximation. These 10 Q's and the 5 Q's on Probability were similar to the questions in the Peak Seekers PrepCET 12.
• There were 4 sets of Data Interpretation containing 5 Q's each (1 line graph on percentage increase in profit, 1 bar graph on distribution of males, females and children in 6 different colonies, 1 table of students who have appeared and passed in an examination from 6 different states and 1 table on distribution of male and female in different departments of 6 different companies). The percentage profit graph and the table showing examination data were a regular feature in all Peak Seekers prepCETs. While the bar graph was very much on the lines of a set contained in prepCET 12. In every set, a couple of questions were computation-intensive and hence time consuming. A student should have attempted all the sets but should have judiciously selected questions from each set.
• There were 5 questions each on Logical Math and Quantitative Comparison. The Logical Math went back to its original version (after it was changed a bit in CET 2007), while the Quantitative Comparison questions should have been a cake walk for any one who solved the questions that had appeared in Peak Seekers prepCETs.
• Overall, a student could have attempted 40 Q's in about 50 min. With a decent accuracy, one should have scored about 35.

Verbal Aptitude

• To begin with CET English tends to be too simple. And if there was ever any doubt, CET 2008 laid it to rest. There were 15 Q's on Underlined phrase replacement, 10 Q's on Error Spotting, 10 Q's on Paragraph Construction, 3 Q's on Analogy and 15 Q's on Reading Comprehension (including 6 Q's based on words in the passage). An interesting feature of the 25 grammar based questions was that a substantial number of them required no correction (or had no errors at all!). The 10 Q's on Paragraph Construction and the 15 Q's on Reading Comprehension were in line with those that appeared in the Peak Seekers prepCET 12 (in fact just as in prepCET 12, even CET 2008 had the last 10 Q's on Paragraph Construction).
• Overall a students should have attempted about 50 Q's in about 35 min and scored about 45.

• Visual Reasoning questions were 30 in number, exactly as you found them in the Peak Seekers prepCETs. 10 of these were based on last-figure-missing, 10 on Analogy, 5 were on middle figure missing and 5 were on finding similar pair. Of these, 5 Q's on Analogy were exactly the same questions as Q's 126 to 130 in the Peak Seekers prepCET 12. The overall level of Visual Reasoning questions was easy. A student could have easily attempted the questions on Analogy and Similar Pair without wasting much time.
• Logical Data Interpretation was missing in CET 2007. This led some to predict that these questions would no longer be present in the CET. But Peak Seekers was convinced that the CET would reintroduce Logical Data Interpretation. As a result, we included it in most of our CET tests. And guess what, it was re-introduced in CET 2008 for 5 marks. The set pertained to six people working in different cities and in different departments and was very easy. There were 5 Q's on Letter-Symbol coding set, which are a regular feature in CET since two years. Also present were 5 Q's were on Logical Data Sufficiency, that were again very easy.
• As expected by Peak Seekers students, there were a lot of questions on Puzzles. These included 5 Q's on Alphanumeric Series, 5 Q's on Number Series and 27 Q's on Miscellaneous Puzzles. Of these, the number series questions (about 3 of them) were difficult and time consuming. Most of the Puzzles questions were on line with the Peak Seekers prepCETs. Questions pertaining to circular arrangement and family relations were in line with those asked in the Peak Seekers class exercises. Two of the puzzles questions had an error (one pertaining to family relations where 2 answer options were correct and the other one referred to some "question above" which was missing).
• There were fewer Syllogisms questions than usual. There were 15 Q's in all (5 Q's on Logical Set Theory, 5 Q's on Assumption and 5 Q's on Probably True Probably False). Due to this, the overall accuracy of the paper is expected to rise!
• Overall, a student could have attempted about 80 Q's in about 60 min. and could have scored about 60 marks.

Total

(Including random marking the target score becomes 145.)