TISS

TISS 2007
(21^st January 2007)

As always, TISS was the least transparent exam of the season. No student who took the test knew the weightage of individual questions, forget about the overall paper. According to the prospectus, the written test should have been of 70 marks. But, there were 120 Q's. How this gets converted to 70 marks is anybody's guess. For the purpose off our evaluation we have assumed that all questions had equal weightage and the total marks were indeed 70 as the prospectus mentioned. The test-paper said that there would be negative marking for wrong answers, but the extent of negative marking was not revealed! The paper was terribly easy. For a well prepared student, clearing the cut-off score of 43 should be difficult.

120 Qs, 90 min.
70 marks (negative marks for wrong answers)
No sections
4 answer options per question

Likely Cut-Off

TISS 43+ (as declared by TISS)

Overall Breakup of TISS 2007

	Question Type	No. of Qs	Difficulty level
1	Quantitative Aptitude	40	Easy
2	Verbal Ability	15	Easy
3	Logical Reasoning	20	Easy
4	Social and Business Awareness	45	Average
	Total	120	Easy

Question-Type Wise Analysis of TISS 2007

Quantitative Aptitude

All 40 Q's were easy and even an average student could have attempted 25-30 Q's.
The questions were largely from Arithmetic topics like Number System, Percentages and Ratio-Proportion (around 25 Q's in all). There were no questions on Speed, though. The remaining questions were related to forming Equations and finding the roots of the Equations (around 5-6 Q's), Geometry (3-4 Q's), Probability (2-3 Q's) and finding the Equation of graphs (2 Q's).
One could have easily attempted around 25 Q’s in 35 minutes and that too at a very high accuracy.

Verbal Ability

There were hardly any questions on Verbal ability, and the 15 Q's that were present were all on Vocabulary and Idioms.
The Vocabulary questions were on Synonyms, Antonyms and Analogies.
Two new and interesting question types were also introduced. The Analogy questions had a twist! You needed to find the pair that did-not have the same relationship as the reference pair. While the question on Idioms pertained to the situation where a particular idiom was most appropriately used.
One should have attempted all 15 Q's in 10 min.

Logical Reasoning

This consisted of 3 sets of Analytical Reasoning (Logical Data Interpretation), each followed by 6-7 Q's.
All the three sets were quiet easy and must-attempts. Only one set (pertaining to Professors, Institutes, Subjects and Degrees) was confusing, but could have been attempted with some effort.
Overall, about 15-18 Q's could have been attempted in 25 min.

Social and Business Awareness

This question-type had 45 Q's in all -- largely pertaining to principles of Management and Legislature.
A BCom student who had undergone the 'Management Production and Planning' (MPP) course could have cracked this section. Also present were some Q's on recruitment policies and the Company Act. There were some questions on current and social topics (e.g. Khairlanji killings).
You could have attempted around 15-18 Q's in about 20 min. from this area.

TISS 2007 Paper Attempt Strategy

	Question Type	No. of Qs	Target Attempts	Time Allotted	Target Marks
1	Quantitative Aptitude	40	25	35 min
2	Verbal Ability	15	15	10 min
3	Logical Reasoning	20	17	25 min
4	Social and Business Awareness	45	18	20 min
	Total	120	75	90 min	50+

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