IRMA

IRMA 2005
(18^th December 2005)

IRMA 2006 has already been conducted. This is the page for IRMA 2005.

Likely Cut-Off

Overall Breakup of IRMA 2005

Section	Area	No. of Qs	Marks per Q	Difficulty level
1	English Comprehension	40	1	Easy
2	Quantitative Ability	50	1	Average
3	Analytical and Verbal Reasoning	50	1	Average
4	Issues for Social Concern	60	1	Difficult
	Total	200		Average

Section-Wise Analysis of IRMA 2005

English Comprehension

This section was largely made up of two RC passages with 10 and 15 questions each. Both these passages were concerning social and economic issues
The remaining questions were jumbled sentence (5 Qs) and paragraph construction (10 Qs)
Overall this section was very easy and one could have easily attempted about 30 questions in 30 minutes

Quantitative Ability

This section was divided into 20 Qs on pure quant, 5 Qs on data sufficiency and 25 Qs on data interpretation
The pure quant questions were based on number series (5 Qs), arithmetic (5 Qs) and those pertaining to simplifying expressions (10 Qs)
In data interpretation you had 2 combination sets (table and graph), 2 sets of graphs and 1 set of table. Each set was followed by 5 questions
Overall the section was of average difficulty level with some very easy and some very difficult sets
You could have picked up the right sets, and attempted around 30 questions in 40 minutes

Analytical and Verbal Reasoning

This section had 25 questions on verbal reasoning, and the remaining 25 questions on analytical reasoning
In verbal reasoning there were 5 sets each followed by 5 questions. These sets were on strong/weak arguments, courses of action, probably true probably false, cause and effect and logical consistency
The analytical reasoning questions were based on eligibility criteria (10 Qs), simple puzzles (6 Qs), analogies (4 Qs) and logical data interpretation (5 Qs)
One could have easily attempted around 35 questions in 30 minutes in this section

Issues of Social Concern

This section had general knowledge questions on socio-political and economic issues
This was the most difficult section with questions pertaining to agriculture and irrigation, public finance and rural credit, poverty and employment, public distribution system and global issues on health
One should have spent only 20 minutes on this section, in which he could have attempted about 15 questions

IRMA 2005 Paper Attempt Strategy

Section	Area	No. of Qs	Target Attempts	Time Allotted	Target Marks
1	English Comprehension	40	30	30 min	25
2	Quantitative Ability	50	30	40 min	25
3	Analytical and Verbal Reasoning	50	35	30 min	28
4	Issues for Social Concern	60	15	20 min	12
	Total	200	105	120 min	90

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