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Verbal Communication
This section aims to test the candidate's
comprehension of and interpretative abilities in English as a language of
business. Given the potential manager's decision-making roles, this section
seeks to examine the candidate's felicity with common forms of English
expression, grammar and usage in business that would enable him/her to extract
essential information from a variety of data, and arrive at an informed
decision. Regular analysis of business articles and non-fiction prose, besides a
firm grasp of communicative English grammar would be helpful in preparing for
this section.
Logical Reasoning
This section consists of analytical reasoning, argument
analysis, and analysis of explanation questions.
Quantitative Ability
This section aims to test the
candidate's understanding of Basic Mathematics (Numbers; Operations; HCF and
LCM; Fractions, Decimals and Percentages; Ratio and Proportion; Roots and Power;
Logarithms; Progressions; Elementary Geometry and Mensuration; Elementary
Trigonometry; Introductory Set Theory), Linear Algebra (Equations and
Inequalities; Matrices; Determinants; Simultaneous equations and solutions;
Elementary Linear Programming; Elementary differential calculus involving
functions of one variable; Elementary integral calculus), and Probability and
Statistics (Types of Data; Frequency Distributions; Measures of Central Tendency
and Dispersion; Probability Concepts: Basic Outcomes, Events, Sample Spaces;
Probability Calculations: Counting Rules using Permutations and Combinations,
Unions and Intersections, Complementary Events, Mutually Exclusive Events,
Conditional Probability and Independent Events; Binomial, Poisson and Normal
Random Variables; Correlation and Simple Linear Regression) for their use in
business applications such as Partnership and Shareholding; Present Worth and
Discounts; Depreciation; Demand and Supply; Cost and Revenue, and common
applications such as Banking Transactions; Inventories; Mixtures; Time and Work;
Time and Distance; Pipes and Tanks; Estimation of time, distance, area, volume,
effort, etc.
* Data Interpretation
This section aims to assess the ability of
the examinee to make valid interpretations from a given data set. The section
also assesses the ability of the examinee to understand data in different
representative forms such as simple tables, histograms, pie charts, graphs,
scatter diagrams, etc. Although involved calculations are not expected, simple
data manipulations would be required.
There
is negative marking for incorrect answers. For a wrong answer to a question, 25%
of the marks allotted to that question will be deducted. Moreover, for a
candidate to be qualified in JMET 2008, he/she should, not only, secure certain
minimum marks in the test paper, but also, should necessarily obtain certain
minimum marks in each of the four sections stated above.
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