I analysed nd solved this year's paper and I must say that its an outlier in the general pattern and difficulty level given by dse in the last decade. Given the merit reservation u can expect the same pattern nd difficulty in future also....
so the question is of how to prepare nd tackle this in future....
U cant find any of these problems in any book or problem sets as most of these questions are prepared by the faculty and not copy paste (true for most of the questions)
In this years ppr the topics coverage was not out of the box......but dse just inflated the difficulty level of the questions that tests u on basic concepts only.....specially 2-3 probability questions.... I had very hard time with them but no solution....
they made same concepts (except the gen eqm questions, vch were made more tricky on logic) more mathematical this time.....dats vy they were hard to tackle....and also made the paper lengthy....(according to me)
So for future I would suggest to read and practice every concept in mathematics and whats happening graphically......u shud no the "why?" at each and evry step of maths that u apply in economics concepts.
There are a lot of books that focus on mathematical economics but sometimes they can be hard to follow if u dnt get your basics right....and dese books have a lot of advanced material dat u dont need to do...
For future preparation this paper needs a special attention and a lot of time.....
Akshay Jain
Masters in Economics
Delhi School of Economics
2013-15
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