CET : Subject pattern

Common Entrance Test conducted by the Directorate of Technical Education is said to be a fairly predictable paper.

For the past 20 years the pattern has remained the same.The following has been the pattern of the paper:

Reasoning : 100 - 120 questions

Reasoning in CET an be divided as Logical Reasoning,Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal or Visual reasoning.

Logical Reasoning (50-60 questions) : Some of the topics included in LR are as follows :

• deductions and connectives
• blood relations and family tree
• input output

Verbal Reasoning (10-20 questions) :  Some of the topics included in VR are as follows :

• questions on conclusions
• questions on assumptions
• questions on inferences
• course of action
• cause and effect
• strong and weak argument

Visual Reasoning (30 questions) : Some of the topics included in ViR are as follows :

• series
• analogies
• odd man out

Number based questions (50 questions) : These questions can be further categorised under the following categories :

• Quantitative Ability
• Data Interpretation
• Data Sufficiency
• Data Redundancy

English language (50 questions) : These questions are divided into two broad categories :
Verbal Ability : 35 questions
Reading Comprehension : 15 questions

The verbal ability section includes the following questions :

• grammar based questions [sentence correction and error identification]
• word based questions [synonyms,antonyms,analogies,odd man out,fill in the blanks,idioms]