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“A goal is a dream with a deadline”
Today’s CMAT gave the MBA dream a fresh lease of life. This new MBA entrant with the distinction of having 50+ reputed B-schools, under its cap, has just carved a niche for itself in the MBA Entrance arena.
With a vision – to discover hidden management talent of candidates whose enthusiasm matches aspirations, the CMAT has a wide national reach where “quality meets quantity”.
The CMAT has been developed and designed by Calibre Mindware Programming Pvt. Ltd., which is a fast growing educational ERP solutions provider and an expert in testing and assessment solutions.
Starting the MBA season on an optimistic note the CMAT will set the pace for the other management entrances soon to follow.
 Section Wise Analysis
 English Usage and Reading Comprehension
A non-existent difficulty level made this section easy to attempt. A fairly good understanding of the language would have built the scores for this section.
Vocabulary based questions like synonyms, antonyms, fill in the blanks, odd word can be tackled with ease if one is familiar with words and sentence construction. This familiarity can be built by following certain grammar fundamentals as well reading material written in the language. These fundamentals can be learnt from the basics with the help of the ‘Wren and Martin’, the book on English Grammar.
Questions on substitution of idiomatic phrases, analogies and the RC passage were also easy and should have been attempted first as far as possible.
Para jumbles were of average difficulty level.
Rest of the questions from English usage was straightforward.
Questions based on Deductive Reasoning however proved to be of average difficulty level.
 An attempt of 20 questions is possible in this section.
| Area |
Sub-Area |
Questions based on this area |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
Reading Comprehension |
Short passage |
51 to 54 |
04 |
Easy |
Para building |
Para jumble |
55 and 56 |
02 |
Easy to Average |
Para completion |
75 |
01 |
Easy |
Vocabulary |
Synonyms |
57 and 58 |
02 |
Easy |
Fill in the blanks |
59 |
01 |
Easy |
Antonyms |
65 and 66 |
02 |
Easy |
Replacing idiomatic phrases |
67 to 69 |
03 |
Easy |
Logical Reasoning |
Deductive reasoning |
60 to 64 |
05 |
Easy to Average |
Analogies |
70 to 72 |
03 |
Easy |
Odd word out |
73 and 74 |
02 |
Easy |
Total |
25 |
Easy to Average |
Quantitative Ability:
A section which displayed an ‘Easy to Average’ difficulty level.
If you have a flair of playing with numbers and figures taught at high school level then questions from this section which were based on the fundamentals learnt through the years in school up to standard twelve would have been easy.
A good mix of sitters which a student would have been able to tackle in a minute. Around 15 questions could have been solved within a minute or with little bit calculations. But concepts of all the areas were necessary to stay ahead in this section.
The sitters were 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16 & 21.
An attempt of 18-20 questions is possible in this section.
| Area |
Sub-Area |
Questions based on this area |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
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Arithmetic |
Ratio and Proportion |
6 |
01 |
Average |
Percentage |
17, 23 |
02 |
Average |
Men, Time and Work |
19 |
01 |
Average |
Interest |
5 |
01 |
Average |
Profit and Loss |
4, 20 |
02 |
Average |
Partnership |
3 |
01 |
Average |
Average Speed |
1 |
01 |
Easy |
Pipes and cistern |
2 |
01 |
Average |
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Algebra |
Probability |
24 |
01 |
Average |
Logarithms |
16 |
01 |
Easy |
Permutations and Combinations |
10 |
01 |
Average |
Linear equations |
7 |
01 |
Easy |
Geometry |
Circle |
12 |
01 |
Easy |
Quadrilateral |
11, 21 |
02 |
Average |
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Numbers |
Remainder |
25 |
01 |
Easy |
Square root |
14 |
01 |
Easy |
Simplification of expression |
9, 13, 18, 22 |
04 |
Easy to Average |
Based on concept |
8 |
01 |
Easy |
VBODMAS |
15 |
01 |
Easy |
Total |
25 |
Easy to Average |
Reasoning Ability:
Testing your logical and abstract thinking this section displayed an easy to average difficulty level. Though almost all the questions were caselet based, they were short and easy to tackle.
The caselets on Analytical Reasoning were reasonably easy and hence were the score builders for this section.
A good blend of Analytical Reasoning, Mathematical Reasoning, Visual Reasoning, Data Sufficiency and Data Interpretation problems made it easy for a student to ‘make hay while the sun shines’!
An attempt of 20 questions is possible in this section.
| Area |
Sub-Area |
Questions based on this area |
No. of Questions |
Difficulty Level |
Data Interpretation |
Pie-Chart |
26-28 |
03 |
Easy to Average |
Line Graph |
29-31 |
03 |
Easy to Average |
Analytical Reasoning |
Matching |
37-39 |
03 |
Easy |
Arrangement |
41-43 |
03 |
Easy to Average |
Coding decoding |
33-34 |
02 |
Easy to Average |
Blood Relations |
45 |
01 |
Easy |
Visual Reasoning |
Series Completion |
47-48 |
02 |
Easy |
Mathematical Reasoning |
Series Completion |
36 |
01 |
Easy |
Odd man out |
35 |
01 |
Average |
Coded Statements (Conditional) |
49-50 |
02 |
Easy to Average |
Direction based |
46 |
01 |
Easy |
Calculation Based |
40, 44 |
02 |
Average |
Data Sufficiency |
Algebra |
32 |
01 |
Easy |
Total |
25 |
Easy to Average |
General Awareness:
There is no difficulty for this section so it cannot be termed ‘tough’ or ‘easy’. A good reading habit of at least two dailies or a business chronicle will do the needful to tackle this section. Everything is memory based, retaining what ever you read, be it in the field of business or politics or science one should have storage in the compartment of the brain and keep on storing information there.
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