NMAT 2007 and Available Mock papers

No, this post is not about where to find more mock tests for NMAT 2007. This is more about the relevance of the available mock papers. The pattern of NMAT 2007 will be different from whatever has happened with NMAT till now. ( Read this post for more information on NMAT 2007 pattern.) Still intrested? read on..
Analysis of previous year NMAT's

NMAT 2004 had 200 questions to be solved in 150 minutes. The paper was divided into five sections. Reasoning section had questions from visual reasoning, logical reasoning, critical reasoning etc. Verbal section relied heavily on synonyms and antonyms questions. Two passages and some sentence correction questions completed this section. Quant was fairly basic. Arithmetic was flavour of the day and there were some algebra questions too. DI and GK were on the expected lines. A score in excess of 90 was expected to get you a call, However, in the end a score of 82+ was enough to make the cut.

NMAT 2005 was on same lines as NMAT 2004. 200 questions, 150 minutes and 0.33 negative marking. Paper was again divided into five sub sections. Verbal was high on RC this time around and the difficulty level was on the higher side. The antonyms and synonyms were replaced by analogies. Sentence correction and para jumbles completed the section. Reasoning was more or less on the same lines as NMAT 2004. NMAT's romance with arithmetic continued as there were 23 questions on this subject. GK and DI were as expected. The pundits expected a cut-off of 86+ vis-a-vis 84+, which was the actual cut-off


NMAT 2006 had a good change in store for the contestants. I call exam-takers contestants, because thats what they are. Darkening circles in a hope that this darkness will take them to the light. Anyways, the change was that NMAT decided to be kind. Negative was reduced to 0.25 and rest of the things remained unchanged.Verbal followed NMAT 2005's pattern, albeit with easier RC. Data Sufficiency was new occupant of reasoning section and Quant was Arithmetic's slave. GK was easy and DI was time killer.Overall the level of paper was a bit tougher than traditional NMAT's and Hence, pundit's said 75+ was enough.

How all this is related to Mock NMAT papers

The pattern of exam will change this year. The paper would be more SNAP test like, but GK will not be one of the sections. All the Mocks that are available are traditional NMAT's. TCY's online mocks are more like NMAT 2005. Princeton-review NMAT mock also resembles NMAT 2005 pattern. So, where do we go? what are we left with?

If you take my opininon, I think one should be doing SNAP mocks instead of NMAT mocks. You can skip the GK section and reduce the time limit of the paper to 90 minutes. This will ensure that the difficulty level of the paper matches NMAT's (expected) level.

I do have about 7 SNAP mocks, just in case you want one.

Disclosure : Author himself is part of the mad rush for MBA.