BMS Entrance Exam: Hit or Miss?

Wednesday was the dreaded day for thousands of management aspirants. The three months of attending coaching classes, trying to solve the bewildering logical reasoning puzzles, banging your head whilst encountering Math problems, and finally doing the laborious task of opening newspapers (no, NOT the supplements that inform you about Taylor Swift’s new beau) and mugging up the latest current affairs finally paid off.
 

Wait, or did it?

Easy as pie or too difficult to wrap your head around - if there’s one thing that we all can make peace with, it is that the exam was surely a shocker. You know where I’m getting at. Yes, those two words that almost everyone cruelly eliminated from their arduous preparations- HIGHER MATHS!

No, I’m not starting my super annoying “Oh-Math-is-such-a-trouble-in-my-paradise” rant. Well, it is. But trust me, this time many other aspirants shared the same story as well.

Ever since it was announced that non-math students were eligible to take the entrance exam of BMS, people readily assumed that Higher Maths would surely not be a part of the syllabus. Convenient, right? There was never an official confirmation that it would be included. But then again, no one ever ruled that option out either.

So, yes. The Math section was a shocker, to say the least. Talking about it, Jasleen Kaur, a BMS aspirant says, “Everyone quickly presumed that Higher Maths wouldn’t be a part of the paper. Even coaching centers started focusing on it less and began emphasizing on other aspects more. I just attempted whatever I retained from class 11th and 12th.”

While the Math section became the Dr. Octopus to people’s Spiderman (yes, I quoted Sheldon Cooper), let us talk about the other sections. The rest of the exam was pretty much along expected lines. General awareness, being a bummer as always, was a little easier. Other sections too were attemptable including the comprehensions that were relatively simple.

There were, though, a few glitches. Like a newspaper reporting that there would be no negative marking for BMS a day before the exam! RED ALERT. That was untrue. A mark was to be deducted for every wrong answer which is why many refrained from attempting too many questions or relying on assumptions.

Jagriti Rath, who also gave the CPT exam, says, “While I did give CPT(the entrance exam for CA), I would say this paper was slightly more challenging and this is because of the unexpected addition of Higher Maths. Though the paper was pretty average on the whole, it was the Math section that twisted things up.”

Moral of the story- NEVER assume.