Elitmus Syllabus 2016 and Question Paper Pattern 2016
Elitmus paper consist of three sections and each section is having 20 question , hence total 60 questions are there in Paper.Each question carry 10 marks so total of 600 marks. All questions are objective and few question are multiple choice also.
- Quatative Aptitude Section 20 Questions
This is most toughest section and student find hardly to solve more than 5-6 questions as the difficulty level of CAT level . Question are too tricky in this section. But we should make sure that do not attempt the question if are not 100% sure whether the answer is correct or not.
Elitmus Syllabus 2016 for Quantitative Aptitude
- Number Systems
- Percentage & Interest
- Time, Speed & Distance
- Geometry
- Averages
- Coordinate Geometry
- Logarithms
- Probability
- Permutation & Combination
- Quadratic Equations
2) Reasoning Section 20 Questions
The difficulty level of this section is intermediate and we can solve this section without much difficulty. Students are advised to focus more on this section and devotes more time here as this is most scoring section of the paper.
Elitmus Syllabus 2016 for Reasoning Section
- Data Tabulation based Questions
- crypt arithmetic Problem ( 5 questions always comes of crypt arithmetic but difficulty level is too high )
- Arrangement Based Problems
- Bar Graphs/Pie Charts ( these are the easiest questions to score)
3 ) Verbal Ability Section 20 Questions
This section is the easiest section of the paper and students mostly take the advantage of this section only to make their overall percentile high .we can easily attempt 13-15 questions in this section with great accuracy.
Elitmus Syllabus 2016 for Verbal Ability Section
- Questions Related To Grammatical Concepts ( Intermediate Level )
- Paragraph Based Questions ( easiest question of the paper , try to attempt all with accuracy )
- Fill In The Blanks
- Reading Comprehension ( this is time consuming section but although very scoring section as questions are straight forward in this section )
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Negative Marking scheme in Elitmus Ph test
There is also a negative marking scheme in Elitmus Paper and it is a little bit confusing. Negative marking scheme applies to all the section individually. lets elaborate with some example, for every 4 right answers 1 wrong answers is exempted means no negative marking for that answer. Means 25% of right answers are exempted. lets say we have 16 right answers then 25 % of 16 is 3 , there will be no negative marking for the 3 wrong answers in a particular section. But if you exceed the 25 % then ( -5 negative ) for each wrong answer.
Lets clear this also with some example :
Total questions attempted : 12 ( 10 marks each )
Total correct answers : 9 ( 90 marks )
Total incorrect answers : 3
Total incorrect answers exempted : 25 % of correct answers that is 2 ( round off )
Total negative marking : 2 are exempted and 1 is valid for negative marking ( -5 )
Total marks scored : 90 ( correct answers) – 2 incorrect ( exempted) – 1 incorrect ( -5 ) = 90 – 5 = 85 marks
hope you are clear about the negative marking scheme now.
Students who got 80 percentile or above Ph score gets the call from most of the companies.
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Hope you find this article useful. All the best for the exam.