Analysis of the CUET 2023 Slot 1 Paper

by Praveen On 5/29/2023 12:37:52 PM

New Delhi: The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) Slot 1 was successfully administered on May 25 by the National Testing Agency (NTA). CUET Slot 1 ran from 8:30 to 10:15 in the morning. Here is the nitty gritty paper investigation for the CUET 2023 (English and General Test) by TIME Establishment.

PART 1: ENGLISH The English segment was for 45 minutes. There were 50 inquiries of which 40 (not more) must be replied. Total points: 200. 5 points were awarded for each question—one less point for an incorrect response. There were four answers to each MCQ question. The section wasn't hard at all. 5 to 6 of the questions were moderately difficult, while the rest were all easy for the average student. There were 3 RC passages with 5 questions each. The passages were: 1. Story about a father and daughter on a boat 2. Prem Chand, the novelist 3. Entertaining speech. They were about 250 words long. Questions were very direct - what was the real name of Prem Chand, what is the relationship between the 2 characters in the story, which of the following are features of entertaining speech etc. Each passage had a match the following and was presented as a 2-column table. There were also a couple of synonym questions (sodden, grateful). The remaining 35 questions were about grammar and vocabulary. The patterns included matching the following: FIB, sentence rearrangement, error identification etc.

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Foreign expression questions - 2 (meanings of Vive la France and tour de force) Correct spelling- 1 (phenomenology) Synonyms/antonyms (spurious antonym etc.) -2/3 Match words with meanings - 1 table (words were indolent, linguist, gullible, oracle) Meanings of phrasal verbs -3-4 (polish off etc.) Passive voice -2 Direct indirect 2 Question tag - 1 (Rarely does she come here,....?)- a bit tough Fill in the blank with prepositions, adverbs, articles etc. - 5/6 Parts of formal/informal letter - 2 Questions on identifying adjectival clause (1), wrong usage of past perfect tense (1). These 2 questions were a bit tough. Exclamatory to affirmative sentence -2 Idioms -2-3 Identify the correct sentence -4-5 Rearrange phrases/ words to form the correct sentence - 2-3

PART 2: THE GENERAL TEST

The section lasted for an hour. There were 60 inquiries, of which 50 must be replied. Total points: 250 There were about 25 questions on Quantitative Ability, 20 on GK and 15 on LR. They appeared in random jumbled order (ie, not topic-wise). Quant: Seemed to be easy to moderate. There were questions on percentage, ratio, Simple Interest, Venn Diagram, time and distance, a median of an algebraic expression (?), angle of elevation, area of a circle etc. Logical Reasoning: Generally simple inquiries on coding, letter and number series, picture series, logic and so on.

GK: Simple to moderate

The majority of questions were static GK based on Indian or scientific concepts. A portion of the subjects covered were Indian Nobel prize champs and their regions( 3-4 inquiries remembering to Match the accompanying for this ), researchers and their commitments (same as Nobel victors: Hargobind Khorana, CV Raman, JC Bose, and others), Which of the following is a metal (Mercury), which of the following is the primary component of natural gas (carbon, methane, butane, or propane were available as options), match units of measurement with what they measure, match deficiencies with diseases (such as diabetes, goitre, beri beri, anaemia, haemophilia, and so on), Indian award champs in Tokyo Olympics, Coordinate writers with their books (Every single Indian writer - Gandhiji, APJ Abdul Kalam, Dr Radhakrishnan, Shashi Tharoor) and so forth.

Analysis of the CUET 2023 Slot 1 Paper

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PART 2: THE GENERAL TEST

GK: Simple to moderate

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