CMAT 2022 got concluded today on 9th April 2022. As against two shifts in the previous years, CMAT 2022 was held in a single shift from 3 PM to 6 PM. Overall, the difficulty level of the exam was easy to moderate.

A good score in this paper is 270+ marks and the excellent score would stand at 305+ marks. Overall, the score of 295-305 will fetch a 99.5+%ile and a score of 275-285 would fetch a 99%ile.

In this article, we have covered the drilled-down CMAT 2022 exam analysis including good attempts, difficulty level, the topic-wise breakup of questions as well as the expected cutoff.

CMAT 2022 Exam Pattern & Good Attempts

The marking scheme of the paper remain unchanged at +4 for each correct answer and -1 for each incorrect answer. The below table presents the breakup of the 100 questions.

CMAT 2022: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Innovation & Entrepreneurship was easily the easiest section of this paper. It was dominated by the Business GK questions involving brands, logos and basic definitions of business terms. Anyone with an entrepreneurial/business mindset could attempt 15+ questions in this section.

Some of the areas from which the questions were asked included:

• Brand Taglines (Raymond, Amul)
• Government intervention in entrepreneurship (Role of govt, startup India program)
• Founders of Startups (OYO, Lenskart, Sugar Cosmetics)
• Adequacy of Market
• Most Viable Product (MVP)

CMAT 2022: Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation (QT & DI)

The section consisted of 20 questions. The overall difficulty level was easy to moderate. A good percentage of questions were from Arithmetic. And the questions of DI were slightly tedious and time-consuming. Some of the questions from probability were also slightly tricky. Overall, an attempt of 15 questions in this section will be considered a good attempt.

The breakup of the questions is as follows:

CMAT 2022: Logical Reasoning (LR)

There were 16 math-based reasoning questions. There was a set on blood relations consisting of 4 questions. Questions appeared from areas like Code decoding, Venn diagram, Rank, Analogy, number series, and direction.

The breakup of questions is as follows:

CMAT 2022: Language Comprehension (LC)

The difficulty level of this section was easy to moderate with a few tricky questions from the vocabulary section. However, a well-read student would have completed it easily. The questions from RC were also fairly easy and could’ve been guessed correctly even without reading the entire passage.

The breakup of questions is as follows:

CMAT 2022: General Awareness (GA)

Much like the last year, this year also, the General Awareness Section was dominated by questions from Static GK. Some of the questions were tricky. There were hardly any questions from Current Affairs except one from politics. The broad topics covered in Static GK were Indian History, Polity and Science.

The breakup is as follows:

CMAT 2022 Expected Score Vs Percentile

Overall, the score of 295-305 will fetch a 99.5+%ile and a score of 275-285 would fetch a 99%ile. The cutoff for various institutes is as follows: