TS ICET study guide
TS ICET · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
TS ICET is the Telangana State Integrated Common Entrance Test, a state-level entrance examination used for admission to MBA and MCA programmes in universities and colleges across Telangana. It is aimed at graduates (and final-year students about to graduate) from any discipline who want to move into management or computer applications study. The TS ICET study guide has 8 sections and about 2,699 words.
01Analytical Ability - Data Sufficiency: Deciding Whether the Data Is Enough
Data Sufficiency (DS) in TS ICET does not ask for the numerical answer; it asks whether the data supplied forces exactly one answer. Each question carries two statements, and the standard choices run: I alone sufficient; II alone sufficient; both required; either alone sufficient; both together still insufficient.
323 words, about 2 min02Analytical Ability - Problem Solving: Series, Codes, Relations, Arrangements, Logic and Counting
Number series favour constant or increasing differences, ratios, alternating operations, squares or cubes with a small offset, and two interleaved series. Letter series work on position numbers (A = 1 … Z = 26) and reverse pairs (A with Z sums to 27).
350 words, about 2 min03Mathematical Ability - Arithmetic: Ratios, Percentages, Interest, Work, Speed and Averages
Arithmetic questions reward converting everything into ratios or fractions. Percentages: a 25% rise followed by a 20% fall returns to the original value, because 1.25 × 0.80 = 1.
351 words, about 2 min04Mathematical Ability - Algebra and Geometry: Identities, Mensuration, Coordinates, Trigonometry
Commit to memory: (a ± b)², a² − b², a³ ± b³, and x² + 1/x² = (x + 1/x)² − 2. For ax² + bx + c = 0, the roots sum to −b/a and multiply to c/a, while the discriminant b² − 4ac decides whether roots are real, equal or imaginary.
350 words, about 2 min05Mathematical Ability - Statistics and Data Interpretation: Averages, Spread and Chart Reading
Mean = sum ÷ count; it shifts with every value. Median is the middle value after sorting, or the average of the two middle values for an even count, and it resists outliers.
341 words, about 2 min06Communication Ability - Vocabulary and Grammar: Synonyms, Idioms, Correction and Blanks
Synonym and antonym items test precise meaning, not loose association. Learn words in families with their opposites: candid, frank and guileless against evasive; frugal and thrifty against extravagant.
288 words, about 1 min07Communication Ability - Reading Comprehension and Composition: Passages, Jumbles and Coherence
Read the passage once for structure: what is the author's claim, what evidence supports it, and where does the passage turn (however, yet)? Questions fall into types - main idea, specific detail, inference, tone or purpose, and vocabulary in context.
319 words, about 2 min08Computer and Business Awareness: Hardware, Software, Money and Markets
Hardware is the physical machine; software is the set of instructions. The CPU has an arithmetic logic unit and a control unit, and works with primary memory (RAM, volatile) and secondary storage (hard disk, SSD, pen drive, non-volatile).
377 words, about 2 min