No surprises found place in FMS 2006. As predicted, it contained 175 questions in all. As in previous years, there were no individual sections but 50 questions were from Quant, 50 from Reasoning, and 75 from RC & Verbal. Correct answers carried 4 marks while 1 mark was deducted for every incorrect answer.

Quite a few students would have attempted more than 120 questions while very good students would have crossed 140 attempts. The cutoff will therefore be higher and will be around 400 +/- 20.

Reasoning

This had 8 sets of questions which were mostly easy. A couple of sets can be termed to be of moderate level of difficulty. A good student could have attempted around 30 questions and got 20+ right.

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

This area was slightly more difficult since a lot of questions were vocab-based. The Verbal Ability area had questions on Fill-in-the-blanks, Spelling errors, Origin of words, Analogies, Phobias, Synonyms and Antonyms. There were 5 RC passages with each passage having between 4-18 questions. The questions were all direct and could have been answered by simply scanning the passages.

A good student should have attempted 40 questions in this area and got 25 right.

Quantitative Ability

This area had the usual mix of questions from most of the topics. The questions were mostly easy and it would not have been too difficult for a good student to attempt 40 questions and get 25 right.

Overall cutoff

400 +/- 20