Students’ Speak: Comparison between TANCET 2019 and TANCET 2018

By: T. Deepthi

The exam pattern is designed in a manner to check the student’s ability, skills, knowledge, command over the subject, comprehension, ability, decision making, etc. In TANCET for MBA, there are four sections.

Exam analysis is important for aspirants to crack a good score. If we know exam analysis we can expect questions from important topics, during the last days you can revise only expected and important topics, it will be helpful for you. Competitive exams need smart work rather than hard work. So we have to keep focus on expected topics. Studying of all topics is important but at last, days keep on focus only on expected topics, it will be very useful.

Exam pattern

Candidates must know the exam pattern to get a score and also it is minimum responsibility for students to know the exam pattern. The exam pattern is designed in a manner to check the student’s ability, skills, knowledge, command over the subject, comprehension, ability, decision making, etc. In TANCET for MBA, there are four sections. They are Verbal Ability which contains 25 questions, Data Interpretation which contains 25 questions, Mathematics which contains 25 questions; and English language which contains 25 questions.

In TANCET question paper is of 100 marks with 100 multiple-choice questions. An offline-mode exam, there is a +1 mark for each correct and -⅓ rd mark for each incorrect response. Duration of the examination is two hours and the medium of the examination is English.

In TANCET for Engineering, there are three sections. Part 1 consists of Engineering Mathematics, which is common to all branches. Part 2 consists of basic Engineering & Science and Part 3 consists of a chosen subject such as ECE, EEE, Mech, Civil, etc.

Type of questions asked

We should remember that in every competitive examination there will be easy, moderate as well as difficult questions that will be asked during the exam. Mostly the preference is given to moderate and difficult questions because they have to eliminate some of the candidates. But coming to statewide examinations there will be largely easy and moderate questions. By the analysis of experts, since last two years the question paper was easy to moderate. The maximum marks in both 2018 and 2019 were over 70. The question paper ranges from easy to medium level only. According to 2018 and 2019, if you get more than 70, your rank will be between 1 and 10. And coming to cut off, if the question paper is too tough, cut off might decrease. However, if the question paper is too easy, cut off might increase. In 2018 as well as in 2019 for the OC category, the cutoff ranged between 38-40.

Section-wise5 topics covered

As you are aware TANCET examination consists of five sections. They are:

1. Reading Comprehension: 20 marks
2. English Grammar & Usage: 20 marks
3. Analysis of Business situation: 20 marks
4. Quantitative ability: 20 marks
5. Data sufficiency: 20 marks

• Reading comprehension contains topics such as sports, history, technology, politics, business, geography, environment, medicine and economics
• English Grammar contains topics such as synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech, sentence correction, error correction and exceptions in English grammar
• Analysis of business contains topics such as This section tests the business skills of candidates. This section may include passages of 300-500 words each and will include 20-30 questions. For this, you can refer CAT and XAT exam pattern for your clarification.
• Quantitative ability contains topics include quantitative ability topics such as Mensuration, simple interest, complex numbers, LCM&HCF, percentages, Ratio &proportion, averages etc., you can refer R. S. Agrawal aptitude or R S Sharma aptitude book.
• Data Sufficiency topics like aptitude topics but it contains statements, conclusion and passage like a combination of day to day mathematics. You can refer R S Agarwal or R S Sharma books.

Marking scheme

For any competitive examinations, you must and should know and it is your responsibility to know the marking scheme of the examination. Coming to the TANCET marking scheme, there are different papers for different courses in the state-level examination but same Marking scheme is followed to all the papers. TANCET consists of 100 multiple choice questions and each question carries 1 mark. Moreover, there is a negative Marking for wrong response and 1/3 mark will be deducted. If a question is left unanswered there will be no negative marking for that & no positive marks also. For answering questions you will be given OMR sheet and this is an offline mode based on pen & paper.

Expected cut- off??

The expected cutoff will be different for different categories.

• For OC category it may range from 38-40
• For BC category it may range from 33-36
• For SC category it may range from 21-30
• For ST category it may range from 19 -27

I hope you will understand each and everything that I was mentioned above. If you want to know more information you can refer to previous year question papers then you might get an idea about TANCET examination.

About the Author:

T. Deepthi is a student at Sri Padmavati Mahila Vishvavidyalayam Tirupati. She is pursuing Bachelor's in Technology with a specialisation in Electronics and Communication.