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Paper Pattern:

The paper of Quantitative Techniques for management is a technical paper and questions asked are of long answer type in this paper. Total questions asked are 8 and 5 questions are required to be attempted from it. The paper contains questions of different pattern, some questions are required to be solved with help of diagram and questions are also asked as the data based numerical. All questions are of equal marks. Some questions have sub-questions in the paper. Some problems are of very descriptive type and required a good sketch.

Frequently asked questions:

The paper contains questions of very descriptive type as well as numerical questions are asked in the paper, some data based questions are also asked in the paper. Questions asked are such as EMV criterion with a decision tree, addition and multiplication rules of probability, concepts of theoretical probability distributions and their characteristics,  Linear Programming, waiting line model, costs involved in an inventory problem, critical path and duration in an adjoining precedence etc.

Total marks and time allotted:

Total marks which can be obtained in this paper is 100 and duration for the paper is 3 hours only. Each question is of equal marks, i.e. each question is of 20 marks. In numerical questions, marks are divided into sub-questions.

Recommended Books:

• Quantitative Techniques for Management by S Jaisankar
• Quantitative Methods for Management by TMH