National Testing Agency has conducted the CMAT 2021 (Slot 1) on March 31, 2021 between 9 am and 12:30 pm at various test centers in India. Aspirants can check the overall CMAT Exam Analysis 2021 as shared by the experts at IMS Learning Resource. Carefully read the types of questions being asked in the exam along with the exam difficulty level. Candidates will also find the CMAT 2021 expected cutoff score along with the CMAT exam analysis.

Read CMAT 2021 detailed exam analysis as mentioned under:-

CMAT Exam Analysis 2021 by IMS

CMAT added a new section to the test making it a three and a half hour test form the earlier three hour test. The new section, Innovation and Entrepreneurship was optional and carried 25 questions. The candidates who opted for the additional section received 30 minutes extra.

TEST OVERVIEW

The structure of the test and estimates of good attempts are as follows:

• The test had no sectional
• 4 marks for a correct response .Each Incorrect response invited negative (-) 1 mark

VERDICT 

• Overall, the test was slightly tougher than CMAT
• As is the case generally with CMAT, this year in slot 1 too, time was not a constraining
• General Awareness Section was challenging and will become the decisive section and impact the overall

Based on the feedback received from IMS candidates and experts, we expect the following percentiles against scores for CMAT 2021 (based on Slot 1)

OVERVIEW OF THE SECTIONS 

Quantitative Technique and Data Interpretation

• Like is generally the case in CMATs (2020 being an exception with one DI set of 3 questions), it had all single questions and no set-based
• The Quant Section was slightly tougher compared to the Quant section of CMAT 2020
• Students reported that the section had a lot of easy questions or sitters that required implementation of simple basic
• As normally is the case, this section was dominated by Arithmetic based
• The rest of the questions were distributed in the areas of Algebra, Numbers, Modern Math and
• This time both Data Interpretation questions were singular

Break-up of the questions was as follows

This year they have introduced two new types of questions.

• Two statements with two questions were In this, one needs to find true statement/s among the given statements. Here, one needs to solve 2 questions instead of one question.
• Another type was ‘Match the columns’.

Logical Reasoning

• The Logical Reasoning section was quite doable and easier compared to the LR section of CMAT
• There were 25 logical reasoning questions out of which 3 were
• All the questions were stand-alone. The questions were not lengthy and many questions were straight forward and very easy to
• According to students, the section had questions on Coding-decoding, Series, Analogies, Blood Relations, Circular Arrangement, Matrix Arrangement, Counting number of figures, Syllogisms, Visual Reasoning

Break-up of the questions was as follows

Language Comprehension

• The Language Comprehension Section consisted of 14 Reading Comprehension questions and 11 Non-RC
• This year there were four Reading Comprehension passages with 14 The lengths of the passages varied from 80 words to 400 words. The questions on the two short passages (about 80 words each) were of a higher difficulty level compared to those on the longer passages (400 to 500 words each).
• The non-RC questions were easy to

Break-up of the questions was as follows

 General Awareness

• Out of the 25 General Awareness questions, 17 were based on Static 8 questions were on Current Affairs.
• Around 15 questions were based on Indian events, 7 were on international ones and the remaining 3 were miscellaneous

Break-up of the questions was as follows