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Thursday, May 20, 2010

A Qualitative Analysis of State Level Tests of National Talent Search Examination - for Rajsthan state

Mathematics
The Mathematics section contains 20 questions. All the items were of simple MCQs. None of the questions were having high difficulty level. Out of 20 questions, 3 questions were from Number System, 3 were from Ratio of Proportion, 4 questions were from Algebra, 5 questions were from Geometry, 4 questions were from Mensuration and only 1 question was from Data Handling.

Science
The science section in the test contained 35 questions – 10 in Physics, 10 in Chemistry and 15 in Biology. Questions had variety – 2 were of AR type and 2 MT, remaining all were simple multiple choice variety. Out of 35 questions, 16 questions tested higher mental abilities – 2 in Physics, 2 in Chemistry and 12 in Biology. In total 5 questions pertain to difficult level, 7 were of average and remaining 23 were estimated to be easy. Q. No. 32 is a good analytical question.

Social Science
In social science these are 31 items out of which 29 items are simple multiple choice type.Nine items were found to be testing higher mental abilities, 1 in History, 6 in Civics and 2 in Geography. Questions in Civics have covered all the important topics like Constitution, Foreign Policy and the U.N. Geography questions seem to put emphasis in Drainage! Questions in History are more related to historical personalities/figures.

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