To help you practise for CAT, XAT, IIFT, SNAP, NMAT and other MBA entrance exams.
You are likely to encounter a decent number of questions on Geometry in the MBA exams especially in XAT and CAT. Geometry questions can be easy pickings if your concepts of similarity, properties of various quadrilaterals and basic formulas are learnt by you. A few of these questions in these exams are of level-1 in terms of difficulty and these must definitely be solved. You may skip 3D Geometry which is hardly asked in any exam and trigonometry which is only asked in XAT.
3-4 questions of Quant in the CAT exam are from the basic level of geometry and thus, by taking sufficient practice tests youcan score well in this section.
After proper revision, it�s time to move to the next level of the topic. Practice with the advance-level tests and ensure that you get 3-4 questions correct that may come in CAT exam from this level of difficulty.
Take the expert-level tests to get a strong hold on the topic and to ensure that, 1-2 questions that may be from the expert level of difficulty from Geometry in CAT exam and 2-3 questions in XAT exam do not escape your eyes.
| Geometry | |||||
CAT |
XAT |
IIFT |
SNAP |
NMAT |
|
Total Qs in Quant |
34 |
27 |
20 |
40 |
26 |
Geometry |
3-5 |
5-7 |
3-5 |
6-8 |
4-6 |
Circles |
1-2 |
1-2 |
- |
1-2 |
1-2 |
Triangles |
- |
- |
1-2 |
1-2 |
|
Quadrilaterals |
1-2 |
1-2 |
1-2 |
1-2 |
- |
Mensuration |
1-2 |
1-2 |
1-2 |
2-3 |
1-2 |
Coordinate Geometry |
1-2 |
- |
1-2 |
2-3 |
1-2 |
Trigonometry |
- |
1-2 |
- |
- |
1-2 |
The raw score required in QA for a 99%ile in the last three instalments of CAT has been tabulated below
| QA Score | |
CAT 2014 |
115 |
CAT 2015 |
73 |
CAT 2016 |
52 |
While some Geometry questions can be easily done by observation, the other require knowledge of theorems and formulas. The Geometry section can add around 9-12 to your kitty taking your percentile higher by at least 5 - 8 %ile.
Note:The above given data has been compiled and corroborated from the exams of 2015 and 2016. The number of questions may change drastically in the exams in the coming year.
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