Congratulations, it's the first IIM exam of this academic cycle. IIM Bangalore wasted no time in traumatising y'all early, ahah. Luckily, you'll get a very good idea about how these CBT-exams work (going to the center, verifying your candidature, getting a computer alotted).
Mock Analysis:
IIM Bangalore has shared that there will sectional cutoffs. They will call ~500 students for the interview (to contest for 80 seats). There have been 18,000 applicants (don't know how many paid + will show up to the exam hall -- I'm assuming ~10-15k).
Official Sample Paper:
We have ~550 students who attempted the official sample paper of IIM Bangalore on AfterBoards. Going by IIM Indore standards (of sectional cutoffs), we can assume it to be 35+/30+/40+ (VA/LR/QA) -- almost 1-3 bins to the right of the peak. This new estimates is based on the responses of the students and accounting for some of the responses where I suspect cheating (or knowing the answers beforehand).
Read this to learn more bins & peak: https://www.afterboards.in/forums/afterboards/platform/Ia4Ewg_guide_is_my_ipmat_indore_mock_score_good
Here is the box-plot of all the responses of the official sample paper (attempted on AfterBoards):
Mock - 1:
AfterBoards will only be having this 1 free mock for this year wrt IIM Bangalore's UGAT. We really appreciate your patience and support. Our mock has been attempted by ~240 students.
Following the same estimate for cutoffs, we would see 35+/18+/45+ (VA/LR/QA) -- the LR was much harder. The VA and QA were pretty similar to the official sample paper (as the median is closeby). The objective of this mock was to prepare you for a worst-case scenario. Just because one section goes wrong doesn't mean you need to ruin your mood or get troubled.
Easy paper = High cutoffs.
Hard paper = Low cutoffs.
Also, it should come as no surprise that people cheat in mocks. I was flabbergasted seeing 81 marks in QA. I opened that student's account. They had 294 tab-switches while writing the mock. MY GOD. Two-friggin-hundred-ninety-four. At that point... why even write the mock? sheesh. Cheating in a mock is useless. I don't understand what this mental-masturbation helps you accomplish.
Note: IIM Bangalore has not shared its system of sectional-cutoffs. If they decide to give more weightage to a particular section, the cutoffs could get skewed. Keep this in mind. The above is just a speculation because we've gotten 100s of DMs (and we want a link to share in reply).
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Just curious but out of the top 25 of mock 1 (90%ile in the population size of 250), how many are there who have switched tabs, say, less than 3-4 times?
hmm, intresting
This is such a good question. Generated a correlation graph (of the 400ish students who have attempted mock-1 so far):
I was extremely depressed after seeing my rank in the sample paper but then realised most of those must have cheated.
100%.
People can easily see the solution and then attempt it. Don't let that get to your head.
What was your rank in QA
due to ipmat's +4/-1 marking scheme, I've got a go big or go home attitude in varc, and therefore I have either been scoring 40+ or 25-30 in iim b mocks? (I get it's +3/-1 here). I don't know what's happening. I normally score 130+/180 in ipmat indore varc sections. what should I do? (i'm trying to solve rc's and fix the problem but merese daily rc's hojate hai :/)
score in sample paper: 45/25/49. [119]
score in mock 1: 29/20/50. [99]
and I'm 100% certain that my mock scores aren't as good as they can be :?
Don't worry -- you're at a much better position than most people. We hope the VARC isn't given too much preference in the final cutoffs (fingers crossed), else, 1-2 marks would play a huge role (that too in a truncated range).
hopefully!
35 in va seems like a lot 🥲
We hope it's lower. Again, take this with a grain of salt. The main intent of this post is to curb the 100s of DMs on WhatsApp asking for score-analysis.
Alright thanks , any tips for not panicking seeing a difficult section? I tend to carry that panic onto the upcoming sections :/
how can i even think of this in the exam? cry emoji
there was one more ques. of analogy. cube the digits and add.
how will i get to know seeing the ques that i gotta do this and not that...
These are classic odd-one-out / pattern / puzzle questions. If you've practiced them, you'll be able to see that a certain sequence doesn't make sense.
sometimes u can get these questions by seeing a different pattern that also applies. like u can see the first two and last two digits of every option have the same difference between each other except for c.
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294? what in the world are these rahul gandhi tab switches ( for those who did not understand he said congress will get 295 seats in the 2024 elections)
It's absolutely bonkers. 2-3 tab switches due to accident is understandable. However... 294 is just bonkers. Every 20-30 seconds.