Sequence of Attempts of QA questions:

Skim through the paper and find the types of questions.

1. Immediately eliminate the type which you have not encountered before. No
need to try your hands in something new in the exam hall.
2. Identify the questions which you can solve immediately. These will be your
first attempts
3. Identify the question types which you have solved before but will take a little
more time to solve. These will be your second attempts
4. Identify the questions which you have found difficult in your mocks too. These
will be your third attempts. SO only if you have time left after solving first and
second attempt questions will you focus on these questions.

How to know which questions you can solve immediately?

These questions should satisfy one or more of the following criteria:
 Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones
 Are not calculation intensive or lengthy
 Are understandable in the first reading
 Can be attempted in 60-90 secs or 1-1.5 mins

How to know which questions will be taken up as second attempts?

These will typically satisfy one or more of the following criteria:
 Belongs to your areas of interest/comfort zones
 Are calculation intensive
 Difficult to understand in the first reading
 Can be attempted in 90-180 secs or 1.5-3mins

How to go about solving questions in QA?

 In Algebra try solving questions by substitution of choices, avoid questions
not possible to be solved by this
 In Maxima-Minima try solving questions using differentiation
 Take 30-35 minutes to solve first attempts and 20 mins to solve second
attempts