FMS 09 post-exam analysis: No changes in pattern for past few years

The exam was conducted for the admissions of FMSs two year Master of Business Administration (MBA) and MBA (Management of Services) programs for the year 2009-11. Close to 50,000 MBA aspirants took the test this year for less than 400 seats in various courses at FMS Delhi.

FMS admission test 09 didnt have any surprises as this was the seventh year in a row when the FMS had total 175 questions, and the section wise structure of the test was also not changed from the past few years.
Indore based PT Education shared their detailed analysis of the FMS exam. Follows:

FMS admission test 09 Detailed Analysis

By PT Education
The FMS, Delhi is perceived as a low profile, quiet, solid institute. This is reflected in the entrance test paper also. At the same time when the CAT and XAT papers are primarily designed to check the decision making capabilities of the management career aspirants under pressure, the FMS paper was designed to test the actual knowledge of the students across various Management Skills like Mathematics, English Language, Data Interpretation and Logical and Analytical Reasoning.

FMS does not believe in giving surprises to the students as this was the continuous seventh year when the FMS had total 175 questions, the section wise structure of the test was also not changed from the past few years. Also there was no experimenting done with the total no. of marks and negative marking compared to the last several years.

Comparing with the other management entrance test it had the maximum number of questions i.e., 175 compared to the CAT(90), XAT (104), IIFT(150), JMET(120), to be solved in less time i.e. 120 minutes compared to the CAT (150 min.) and JMET (180 min).

By comparing on the basis of difficulty level of the questions asked the FMS entrance test paper 2009 could be termed as difficult on account of its having questions from Statistics, Physics and Higher Maths in Maths & DI section, Long Passages in RC section, pretty tough wording of the paper and innovative EU questions.

Section wise analysis
Mathematical Aptitude and Data Interpretation
This section can be rated as somewhere between moderate to tough. There were bouncers and perfect Yorkers of Physics, Statistics and Higher Maths questions with some easy deliveries (around 18 questions) in the form of Arithmetic questions. The section was concentrated on the topics like Physics, Permutation and Combination, Time Speed and Distance, Statistics, Partnership, Limits, Progression, Numbers, SI & CI, Mensuration, Calendar, Logarithm, Matrices, Probability, Trigonometry, Stocks and Shares, Percentages, Profit and Loss, Maxima Minima, Conics and Ratio & Proportion. Some of the quant questions should have been solved using the answer options. There were total 41 questions on Maths and 8 questions were on Data Interpretation. Four DI questions were based on a BarLine Diagram and other four questions were on table. Both the DI sets were easy and one could have attempted all the eight questions in it.
An attempt of 22+ questions in a time span of 35 min. with 90% accuracy will be equivalent to best performance.

Analytical and Logical Reasoning
This section of the paper can be rated as moderate. The questions were on Input and Output Analysis, Data Arrangement, Strong and Weak Arguments, Crypto arithmetic, Network Diagram, Puzzles, Series, Mathematical Reasoning, Best Support of the statement and finding the true statement.

There were nine sets of Data Arrangement containing total 25 questions. Around 18 questions out of the 25 Data Arrangement questions were attemptable. All three Input and Output Analysis Questions and question on Crypto arithmetic was easy. From rest of the section one can attempt three/four questions.

Reading Comprehension
The RC section of FMS 2009 will be remembered for its long RC passages. There were five long passages of more than 10001100 words each containing seven questions. The RC passages were not very difficult to comprehend and the questions were also direct with easy to moderate level of difficulty. Basically the RC section was designed to check the reading speed of the candidate. A candidate with good reading speed could have read two passages in a time span of 30 minutes.
An attempt of 14 + questions in a time span of 30 minutes would have been sufficient in this section.

English Usage
In the EU section there were questions on finding the odd one out, Verbal Analogies, Antonyms, Idioms, Proverbs, One Word Substitution, FIBs (4 blanks), FIBs (one blanks), questions based on the statements given etc. One can solve questions on One Word Substitution, Identify the noun and adjective, verb, the meaning of the idioms, FIBs (3 blanks), words belonging to the headwords and Antonyms.
An attempt of 16 to 18 questions in time span of 20 minutes will be sufficient for this section.

The expected scores for FMS Delhi are 260+ for MBA and 250+ for MBA (MS).
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