1. MOCK TEST 16 (SET) ( )
DETAILED ANALYSIS

2. Expected time to complete Reading Comprehension
INTRODUCTION
Mock Test 16 follows the SET pattern wherein the students are subjected to the same level of difficulty both in terms of question type and level.
The mock test comprises of five sections with a total of 150 questions.
A student is expected to attempt this test in an actual test like environment wherein he has 150 minutes to complete the test and thus need to schedule his/her time accordingly.
Sections
No. of questions
Expected time to complete
Reading Comprehension 30
25 min.
General Knowledge
Analytical Reasoning
Legal Reasoning
40 min.
Logical Reasoning
35 min.

3. ENGLISH The overall level of this section was moderate to difficult.
The section consisted of:
4 Reading Comprehensions with 5 questions each
5 questions on Cloze test
1 question on Idioms
2 questions on Synonyms
2 questions on Antonyms
The various questions are now described in detail:

4. Key Concepts and Brief Description Overall Level of Difficulty
DETAILS
Question S. No.
Key Concepts and Brief Description
Overall Level of Difficulty
Strategy
91 to 95
Reading Comprehension
Easy
The passage was an easy read and all the questions should have been attempted.
96 to 100
Easy - Moderate
The passage was not very difficult to read. Q. 96 was inference based and the rest of the questions were direct.
101 to 105
Moderate
The passage was an easy read but the questions were slightly tricky and required a good understanding of the passage.
106 to 110
The passage was short and was an easy read. The questions were also fairly easy.

5. Key Concepts and Brief Description Overall Level of Difficulty
details
Question S. No.
Key Concepts and Brief Description
Overall Level of Difficulty
Strategy
111 to 115
Cloze Test
Moderate - Difficult
The options were quite close and hence, it was necessary for a student to understand the passage in order to attempt the questions.
116
Idioms
Easy
This question should have definitely been attempted as it is easy to understand the meaning of the idiom given the context of the sentence.
117 and 118
Synonyms
Moderate
The correct answer could have been arrived at by eliminating the wrong choices.
119 and 120
Antonyms
The words were of a moderate level of difficulty and one could have arrived at the answer by eliminating the wrong options.

6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
LST Mock – 16 was created according to the pattern of SET Mock. And as per the latest pattern of SET, the no. of questions in GK section continues to be as 30.
General knowledge part of this mock was primarily skewed towards the static GK of which there were 21 questions in all. Number of questions from current affairs was 9. Geography covers maximum chunk of static GK. There were as many as 11 questions from this section. It was followed by history, of which there were total 5 questions. Though the questions from history and Geography were little hard to solve.
Current affairs section comprised of different types of questions. The major weight was given to the misc. current affairs. This section should have been fairly easy for candidates who read the newspapers regularly. The overall difficulty level of current affairs was easy.
Decent attempt: An attempt of question with effective score of could be considered as an excellent attempt.
This table presents the further break up and analysis of the general knowledge section.

7. Indian Polity & Constitution
DETAILS
Static GK
Current GK
Section
No. of Ques.
Difficulty level
History 5
Moderate
National Events 1
Easy
Geography
(India & World) 11
International Events -
Indian Polity & Constitution
Personality 2
 Easy
Economy
Places
Science & Tech
Awards & Honors
Misc.
Sports
Easy to moderate 4
Moderate to hard
Total 21 9   

8. ANALYTICAL REASONING
This section of the test was overall Moderate level of difficulty. This section consisted of
20 questions of Analytical Reasoning
5 questions of Series
2 questions of Coding decoding
2 questions of Blood relation
1 question of Direction
The various questions are described in detail ahead:

9. Key concepts and brief description
details
Question S. No
Key concepts and brief description
Topic
Level of Difficulty
61-65
Number series
Series
Easy to moderate
66-70, 71-75, 76-80, 86-90
Height arrangement, Analytical Reasoning , Analytical Reasoning , Analytical Reasoning ,
Analytical Reasoning
Moderate
81, 82
Blood relation
Easy 83
Direction
84, 85
Coding decoding

10. LOGICAL reasoning
The difficulty level of this section was moderate. The section consisted of:
3 questions on Statement and Arguments
2 questions on Word Anagrams
3 questions on Statement and Assumptions
3 questions on Statement and Conclusions
3 questions on Cause and Effect
4 questions on Critical Reasoning
8 questions on Analogies
4 questions on Assertion and Reasons
The various questions are now described in detail:

11. Key concepts and brief description Overall level of difficulty
LOGICAL REASONING
Question S. No
Key concepts and brief description
Overall level of difficulty
Strategy
1 to 3
Statement and Arguments
Moderate
This set of questions was of a moderate level of difficulty. At least 2 out of 3 questions should have been attempted.
4 and 5
Word Anagrams
Difficult
The difficulty level of these questions was mainly dependent on the ability of a student to recognize the meaningful words. These questions also required a good knowledge of vocabulary.
6 to 8
Statement and Assumptions
Q. 7 could have been difficult for some students but a careful understanding of the statement should have given the right answer.
9 to 11
Statement and Conclusions
All the three questions required a student to carefully analyze the statement before coming to the answer.

12. Key concepts and brief description Overall level of difficulty
Logical REASONING
Question S. No
Key concepts and brief description
Overall level of difficulty
Strategy
12 to 14
Cause and Effect
Easy -Moderate
These questions were based on general knowledge and required basic reasoning skills.
15 to 18
Critical Reasoning
Moderate
Q.16 was slightly tricky because of the options. The other questions were of a moderate level of difficulty.
19 to 26
Analogies
Q. 20, 22 and 25 could have been difficult for some students. The rest of the questions could have been easily attempted
27 to 30
Assertion and Reasons
These questions were based on general knowledge and all of them should have been attempted.

13. Legal Reasoning
This section had 30 questions on Legal Aptitude comprising Legal Reasoning and Legal Knowledge questions:
Legal Reasoning – 20 questions
Legal Knowledge – 10 questions
The Legal Reasoning section tested the ability of students to understand and interpret questions with multiple principles and explanations and the combined application of the same to factual matrix to reach the best answer.
Overall, the difficulty level of this section was moderate to difficult. The section had many multiple principle based questions.
This section was a perfect blend of questions from all sections. There were questions from Law of Torts, Law of Contracts, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law,, International Law, Important Statutes and General Principle of law.
An attempt between the range of would be considered a good attempt for this section.

14. details Topics Question Numbers Number of Questions Difficulty Level
Legal Reasoning
Legal Knowledge
L.R.
L.K.
Criminal Law
34, 35, 38, 59 3 1
Moderate
Torts
32, 41, 44 -
Easy
Constitution
31, 43, 49,
51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 5
Contracts
33, 36, 37, 39, 42, 46, 47,
57, 58, 7 2
Difficult
Miscellaneous
40, 45, 48, 50,
56, 60 4

15. Question analysis
Question number 32: The principle appended in the question provides for rule of strict liability of a person non natural use of land and escape of the substance from the escape. Act of God is a defence in strict liability. The principle further provides for rule of absolute liability upon a defendant engage in inherently dangerous activity. However act of God is not a defence to rule of absolute liability.
Facts in the present question are that a reservoir containing mild acid was fractured when a thunderbolt struck it. This reservoir belonged to X. Reservoir broke and the herbs of Y’s garden were destroyed. Y sued X for absolute liability. After the chemical examination it was found that the acid was not harmful. X in the case claimed the defence of Act of God.
Answer: The correct answer in this question is option (B). The principle provides that that for rule of absolute liability inherently dangerous activity is required. The chemical examination revels that the acid was not harmful proving that no inherently dangerous activity was involved and rule of absolute liability is not applicable in this case. But there was a non natural use of land and hence Act of God is patently available to X. Y therefore will not succeed.

16. Question analysis
Question number 48: There are two principles in this question. Principle 1 provides for the liability of dishonour of cheque when the cheque is returned unpaid for insufficiency of funds. Principle 2 on the other hand provides that for the dishonour of cheque by a company all the directors of the company shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable for prosecution.
Facts provide that X and Y were the directors of a company. Y decided to avail a home loan and issued one cheque drawn on IHIC Bank from his corporate bank account as security advance. This cheque was dishonoured for lack of funds. The Bank IHIC Bank filed a complaint against X as wekk as Y.
Answer: The correct answer in this question is (A). The reason for this is that firstly the loan was availed by Y from the corporate bank account and there was a dishonour of cheque with respect to the same account. The second principle provides that all the directors will be collectively responsible in case the company commits it. Since both X and Y are directors, hence both of them are liable for the offence of dishonour of cheque.

17. Question analysis
Question number 45: Principle provides that State Recognition signifies that the decision of a sovereign state to treat another state to treat another entity as also being a Sovereign State. This recognition of the state can be either express or implied.
Facts: The facts in the present question are that East Timor was to secure the membership of the United Nations. In 2010, India organized the Asian Games 2010, which was attended by 42 nations which included East Timor as well. In 2013, East Timor opposed the resolution moved by India in World Trade Organization and resultantly the resolution fell. India further moved a resolution in the United Nations for rejection of membership of Easy Timor.
Answer: The answer in this question is (A). The reason for this being that by inviting the teams of other States along with their Heads, India impliedly recognized the existence of East Timor. From the principle it is clear that the recognition of the State can be express and implied. Recognition of East Timor was implied.

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