CMAT Is Easy Or Hard

Is Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) exam easy or hard? Tell me the pattern of the exam?

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Common Management Admission Test CMAT is a national level admission test conducted for selection of to management programs approved by the All India Council for Technical education (AICTE).

As far as difficulty level of CMAT 2016 is concerned, the test takers found the test to be moderately difficult.

The overall level of the verbal ability section in CMAT is lower than CAT.

CMAT had a lot of Critical Reasoning questions which ranged from medium to difficult.

However, the remaining questions were simpler than CAT

You do not need to attempt all 25 questions in the General Awareness section.

Keep in mind that you should try and score as highly in the remaining 3 sections and then attempt only those questions in GK where you are more than confident of getting the right answer.

The quant section in CMAT is the simplest of the four sections. To do well in this sections, solve a lot of arithmetic, numbers, P & C, probability etc and you should be more or less done with Quant

For the GK of CMAT, focus mainly on the current affairs in India

CMAT Exam pattern-

Name of the Section Number of Questions Maximum Marks Difficulty level
Quantitative Techniques &
Data Interpretation 25 100 Moderate- Difficult
Logical Reasoning 25 100 Easy – Moderate
Language Comprehension 25 100 Moderate– Difficult
General Awareness 25 100 Difficult

Logical Reasoning – Majority of the candidates found this section to be easy. The questions asked in this section were from Arrangement, Puzzles, Syllogisms, Family Tree, Directions, Data Sufficiency etc. Some of the questions were in the form of caselets which were not very lengthy. An attempt of around 14-15 questions in this section would be considered a good attempt.

Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation – The feedback received for this section from the candidates was a mix of easy and difficult. Some of them found solving this section interesting and easy while for some it was a hard row to hoe. Some of the questions were tricky but most of them were easy to handle. The questions were asked from Algebra, Arithmetic, Geometry, Modern Math, Number System and Geometry in this section. An attempt of around 18-20 questions in this section could be considered a good attempt.

General Awareness – Maximum candidates found this section to be the toughest and most time consuming. The questions in this section were from almost every topic like science, history, geography, literature, Indian culture, sports, business and economics, current affairs. The candidates who would have been regularly reading the newspapers or who makes it a point to stay in touch with the latest news of almost every genre would have been benefitted. An attempt of around 12-14 questions would be considered good in this section.

Language Comprehension – To determine the difficulty level of this section, it was easy to moderate. There were 15 RC questions in this section. The remaining questions were distributed among those of sentence correction, fill in the blanks, para jumble, FIJ (fact, inference and judgment), antonym and synonym and cloze. An attempt of around 18-20 questions in this section would be considered good.