SET BBA study guide
SET BBA · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
SET - the Symbiosis Entrance Test - is the undergraduate admission test used by Symbiosis International (Deemed University) institutes for programmes such as B.B.A., B.C.A., B.Sc., B.A. (Mass Communication) and Liberal Arts, across campuses in Pune, Noida, Nagpur, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. The SET BBA study guide has 4 sections and about 1,228 words.
01General English: Accuracy, Vocabulary in Context and Comprehension
General English sections reward control, not vocabulary display. The dependable areas are grammar accuracy (subject–verb agreement, tense consistency, articles, prepositions, pronoun reference, parallelism, misplaced modifiers), vocabulary in context (synonyms, antonyms, idioms, one-word substitutions), sentence correction and improvement, para jumbles, cloze passages and reading comprehension.
305 words, about 2 min02Quantitative Aptitude: Speed Arithmetic and the Base-Value Discipline
Quantitative Aptitude in a BBA entrance test is speed arithmetic, not higher mathematics. Master: percentages and their fraction equivalents (12.5% = 1/8, 16.66% = 1/6, 20% = 1/5), ratio and proportion, averages and weighted averages, profit–loss and discount, simple and compound interest, time–speed–distance, time and work, basic permutations and probability, mensuration, and data interpretation (tables, bar, pie and line charts).
304 words, about 2 min03General Awareness: Clustered Static Knowledge plus Current Affairs
General Awareness for a BBA entrance exam mixes static general knowledge with recent current affairs. The dependable static core is: Indian polity (Constitution, fundamental rights, Parliament, judiciary, key articles and amendments), Indian and world geography (rivers, mountain ranges, capitals, currencies), basic economics (GDP, inflation, RBI and monetary policy, budget terminology), school-level general science, awards and honours, sports, books and authors, important days, and international organisations with their headquarters.
302 words, about 2 min04Analytical and Logical Reasoning: Draw, Then Decide
Analytical and Logical Reasoning rewards structure. Expect syllogisms, blood relations, direction sense, seating and floor arrangements, ranking and ordering, coding–decoding, number and letter series, analogies and odd-one-out, statement–assumption and statement–conclusion, cause–effect, and short puzzles with three to five conditions.
317 words, about 2 min