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The CMAT 2023 exam was conducted in two slots on 4 May 2023.

CMAT is an MBA entrance test conducted by NTA (National Testing Agency). Around 70,000 candidates appear for it every year. CMAT scores are used as a shortlisting criterion by over 1400 management institutes of India. Its difficulty level is less compared to other popular entrance tests like CAT, XAT, etc.

CMAT is a computer-based test designed to check the candidate’s awareness of aptitude, reasoning, verbal, and general knowledge. After the exam, the candidates are eager to learn about their performance and compute their prospects of getting into a good B-school. So, here we present a detailed analysis of CMAT 2023, done by our experts:

CMAT 2023: Overall Analysis

The difficulty of CMAT 2023 was nearly the same as that of the previous year's exam. It consisted of five sections, with a total of 100 questions. Listed below are the key features of CMAT 2023:

Total Duration: 3 hrs
Marks for every correct answer: 4
Mark deducted for each incorrect answer: 1
No sectional time limit
Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate

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CMAT 2023 Exam Analysis is available here for each shift. The total number of questions is 100 MCQs with 20 questions asked from each section of the paper.

CMAT Exam Shift

Shift 1 (9:00 am to 12:00 noon)

Shift 2 (2:30 pm to 5:30 pm)

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CMAT 2023 Shift 1 Paper Analysis Section-wise

Name of the Section	Total No. of Questions	Total Marks	Good Attempt	Difficulty Level	High Weightage Topics
Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation	20	80	16-18	Moderate and Tricky	Arithmetic, Number System, Correct Statements, 5 DI questions
General Awareness	20	80	12-14	Easy to Moderate	Static GK- 18 questions, Current Affairs- 2 questions
Logical Reasoning	20	80	17-18	Moderate and Lengthy	Blood relations- 2 questions, Coding/ decoding- 2 questions, Syllogisms- 2 questions, Number of squares &trianges- 2 questions
Language Comprehension	20	80	16-18	Easy to Moderate	RC passages- 2 with 3 questions each, Vocabulary-based questions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship	20	80	15-18	Easy to Moderate	Direct theory-based questions, 2-3 questions on current news related to startups
Total	100	400	75-80	Moderate	-

CMAT 2023 Shift 2 Paper Analysis Section-wise

Name of the Section	Total No. of Questions	Total Marks	Good Attempt	Difficulty Level	High Weightage Topics
Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation	20	80	15-17	Moderate	Arithmetic and DI questions
General Awareness	20	80	11-13	Moderate to Difficult	Static GK
Logical Reasoning	20	80	17-18	Easy to Moderate	Critical reasoning
Language Comprehension	20	80	15-17	Easy to Moderate	RC passages, Error detection, Vocabulary-based questions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship	20	80	14-17	Moderate	To be updated
Total	100	400	73-78	Moderate	-