CMAT 2025 exam analysis by an expert will be shared here for Shift 1 and Shift 2. As per the initial reviews and paper analysis, the CMAT question paper 2025 was moderately difficult. Read the complete article and check below detailed CMAT 2025 analysis.
CMAT 2025 Analysis for shift 1 and shift 2 will be made available here. Candidates can have a look at the expert-based CMAT exam analysis 2025 to get ideas about difficulty levels, topic-wise distribution of questions, number of good attempts and expected cut-offs.
CMAT 2025 Exam Time: Morning Shift: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, Afternoon Shift: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm Test form for both shifts will vary. CMAT 2025 Question Paper of Shift 1, was easy-moderate. Find below a detailed CMAT 2025 analysis and expected cut-offs for the top CMAT-accepting colleges.
Here is the overview of the CMAT 2025 Analysis. Students can check below the key highlights of CMAT 2025 exam:
The CMAT 2025 question paper will have five sections, each carrying 20 questions. Students can check the section-wise CMAT difficulty level which is mentioned below in the table:
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CMAT 2025 Sections |
Number of Questions |
Number of Good Attempts |
Difficulty Level |
|
Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation |
20 |
16-17 |
Easy |
|
Logical Reasoning |
20 |
15-16 |
Easy |
|
Language Comprehension |
20 |
15-16 |
Easy |
|
General Awareness |
20 |
10-11 |
Moderate |
|
Innovation & Entrepreneurship |
20 |
11-12 |
Moderate |
|
Total |
100 |
70-75 |
Easy |
The Quants section of CMAT 2025 was very easy. There were 20 questions out of which 10 came from the Arithmetic section. Questions based on the pie chart were 3 data interpretation questions. There were some true-false statement questions. As per the paper analysis of CMAT 2025, around 16 – 17 attempts with 80% accuracy would have worked well in this section.
|
Topics |
Details |
Number of questions |
|
Arithmetic |
Time-speed-distance, Ratio-Proportion, Profit & Loss, SI-CI, Alligation and Mixtures |
10 |
|
Geometry |
Triangles |
1 |
|
Modern Math |
Probability |
2 |
|
Numbers |
Surds & Indices |
2 |
|
Algebra |
Quad equation, Linear equation |
2 |
|
Data Interpretation |
Pie charts |
3 |
Today's CMAT exam Logical Reasoning section was easy. Under the section of CMAT 2025, the question of non-verbal reasoning consisted of 16 questions and 4 questions were asked from verbal reasoning sections. Questions were asked from topics like Directions, Cubes, Counting the number of squares, Linear Arrangements, Family tree and clocks, Assertion Reason, Strong/Weak Argument, Assumption, and Conclusion, etc. According to the CMAT 2025 paper analysis, this section should be attempted with an accuracy of around 80% with 15-16 attempts.
|
Non Verbal Reasoning |
Number of Questions |
|
Directions |
1 |
|
Cubes |
2 |
|
Counting the number of squares |
1 |
|
Linear Arrangement |
1 |
|
Family tree |
1 |
|
Clocks |
1 |
|
Numerical Puzzle |
1 |
|
Misc |
1 |
|
Logical venn diagram |
1 |
|
Set theory |
1 |
|
Number Series |
1 |
|
Analogy based sequence |
1 |
|
Word based Analogy |
1 |
|
Odd one out |
1 |
|
Alpha numeric |
1 |
|
Verbal Reasoning |
Number of Questions |
|
Assertion Reason; Strong/Weak Argument; Assumption; Conclusion |
4 |
In the Language Comprehension section of CMAT 2025 there was only one RC passage, which made it easy. RC passage-based questions were 2 and rest 18 questions were Grammar - FIB, Replace underlined phrases, Passive voice, Cloze passage [3 blanks], Para jumbles, Jumbled sentence, Grammar (Compound Sentence, Articles, Noun-types), Sentence Correction, etc. In this section too, about 15-16 attempts with 80 percent accuracy will be considered good.
All 20 questions in this section were from Static GK. Most of the questions were related to India from fields like science, sports, Indian constitution, history, India and culture. A few questions were based on international events. Overall, CMAT 2025 General Awareness was of medium difficulty and 10 to 11 attempts with 80 % accuracy would be considered a good attempt.
As usual, the innovation and entrepreneurship section of CMAT 2025 was of moderate difficulty. It consisted of questions based on subjects such as Bootstrapping, Startup valuation, Fabian entrepreneur, Angel investment, Lean startup, Trademark, Feasibility analysis, etc). Only 1 question was based on business GK. In this section 11 to 12 attempts with 80% accuracy will be considered as good attempts.
The CMAT 2025 cut-offs for score accepting college are expected not to rise much. Students can check the given table below for the expected CMAT cut offs 2025:
|
Colleges Accepting CMAT score |
CMAT Expected Cut Off Percentiles |
|
99.9 |
|
|
95-99 |
|
|
95-99 |
|
|
99 |
|
|
95-99 |
|
|
90-95 |
|
|
95-99 |
|
|
85 |
|
|
80 |
|
|
85 |
|
|
85 |
|
|
IFMR, Chennai |
85 |
|
85 |
|
|
85 |
|
|
80 |
|
|
80 |
|
|
XISS Ranchi |
80 |
|
80 |
|
|
85 |
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