CMAT 2017 Trial Test on AICTE-CMAT site may not be enough to brush your last minute preparation for next 3 days. In view of the experts and toppers you need to attempt at least one full length CMAT Mock test to assess your preparation level and thereby check your expected percentile score to get admission in the top MBAcollege accepting CMAT 2017 score.
Although AICTE has enabled the sample test with 18 MCQs to guide the aspirants, the sample test lacks number and types of questions that you could find in the actual CMAT 2017 exam on January 28. However, candidates are advised to go through the tools enabled along with the trial test by AICTE carefully to familiarize themselves with the screens, layout, and navigation.
CMAT 2017: Test Pattern
CMAT 2017 to be held on January 28, 2017 will be of 3 hour duration from 9.30AM to 12.30PM. The reporting time for the test is 90 minutes before the beginning of test. You are supposed to reach the test venue by 8 AM.
There will be 100 questions in CMAT 2017 actual exam. All the questions will be in MCQ form and will be divided in following 4 sections
Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation – 25 questions carrying maximum 100 marks
Logical Reasoning – 25 questions carrying maximum 100 marks
Language Comprehension – 25 questions carrying maximum 100 marks
General Awareness – 25 questions carrying maximum 100 marks
There will be negative marking of 1 mark for each incorrect answer.
CMAT Trial Test: only 18 questions
Instead of a full length sample test, AICTE has published the sample test with 18 questions for CMAT 2017. While English comprehension section has maximum number of 9 questions in the sample test, all other 3 sections taken together have 9 questions divided with 3 questions for each section.
There are 4 answer options for each question and you are supposed to choose the best fit one. Same pattern is proposed for actual CMAT 2017 exam.
7 buttons to navigate through the exam
In actual CMAT 2017 exam, AICTE will provide following 7 navigation buttons to move to & fro the 4 sections
Start Test: Click on this button to start the CMAT 2017 exam
Next: Click on this button to go to next question in the section
Previous: Click on this button to go back to earlier question in the section
Flag: Click on this button if you wish to mark to attempt or review the question later
Unflag: Click on this button if you have already marked the question to attempt or review. The button will remove the marked flag from the question
Submit: This button is to be used cautiously as it will submit your attempted test after you complete your CMAT 2017. In case you click on this button during the test, it would submit your answers before completion of the test. Please note that the submit button will be enabled only after you have viewed all the questions at least once within the allotted time. The test will automatically stop when the allotted time for CMAT 2017
test is over.
Deselect: Click on this button to deselect the marked answer and to mark a fresh answer
Expected question topics in CMAT 2017
As revealed in the CMAT trial test and full length Mock test, CMAT 2017 aspirants should expect changes in type of the questions asked on different topics as against in previous CMAT exams. CMAT 2017 proposes to be closer on the pattern of MCQs asked in CAT exam although there will not be any Non-MCQ type of questions in CMAT 2017.
Language Comprehension
Language Comprehension section with 25 questions is expected to give more weightage to RC in CMAT 2017. Reading comprehension passage in CMAT 2017 is expected to be followed by 6 questions as happened in CAT 2016 which had 2 types of RC passages – the one followed by 3 questions and the other followed by 6 questions.
CMAT 2017 also proposes to have a few questions on choosing the appropriate vocabulary words out of the 2 words in each sentence of a question consisting of 4 such sentences.
There are also expected the questions on correct use of parts of speech, punctuation marks, tenses, phrasal verbs in sentences in CMAT 2017 test on the pattern of earlier CAT exams.
CMAT 2017 is also expected to contain questions on Facts, Inference and Judgement as appeared in CAT 2014.
Logical Reasoning
The Logical reasoning may contain questions on different topics like group or seating arrangements, team selections, direction sense among others.
Quant & DI
Questions on Quant and DI in CMAT 2017 may not be as difficult as that of CAT exam although similarity on topics would be there. The DI questions could be individual ones also apart from in sets.
General Awareness
General Knowledge in CMAT 2017 may have questions on conventional and static type of GK, appointments, current affairs, international figures, economic developments, Indian constitution among others.
Commencing with last year CMAT, AICTE has made CMAT as a yearly exam. Accordingly CMAT now will be conducted only once in a year, preferably in the month of January every year. Earlier CMAT exam was conducted twice a year in the months of September and February. This will not only help CMAT takers to avoid appearing twice in the exam but will also motivate them to prepare well to score high and get a good B-school instead of taking another chance and continue preparing for it for another 4-5 months.
Apart from the CMAT admit cards made available on the website, the admit cards have been sent to the email address provided by the candidates. CMAT Admit Card is a mandatory requirement in order to take the test, the candidate must bring a print out of the Admit Card to the test centre.
Announcing the importance & uniqueness of CMAT 2017 exam, AICTE says ‘This test facilitates Institutions to select suitable graduate candidates for admission in all Management programs. The CMAT score is accepted by all AICTE-Approved Institutions/University Departments/Constituent Colleges/Affiliated Colleges.’
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