What is CMAT?

Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is a government organized computer based national level MBA entrance examination for entry into 1000 AICTE approved management programmes (MBA/PGDM) all over India. Till 2018, CMAT was conducted by AICTE, now the Test is conducted by the National Testing Authority (NTA) constituted by Government of India. More than 70,000 candidates apply for CMAT every year. Last year 74486 candidates had applied for CMAT exam. CMAT offers unique opportunity to all the test takers as none of them is disqualified in its result.

CMAT Test Pattern: Duration, Sectional composition & Scoring pattern

CMAT test paper has a time duration of 3 hours with 100 objective type questions in MCQs form.

• Question difficulty level is easy to moderate

• Exam is divided in 4 sections with 25 questions in each section. The sections are Quantitative Technique, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension and General Awareness

• Each correct answer is awarded +4 Mark

• Each wrong answer is penalized with negative marking of -1 mark

• No Individual Time limit to attempt question paper. Candidates can attempt any question from any section within the overall time limit of 3 hours.

• Merit Score and percentile is calculated on the basis of all the 4 sections.

• CMAT score card displays Actual score obtained out of 400 Marks, Sectional score obtained and the sectional and overall percentile obtained in the Exam