CMAT Exam 2022: Avoid these mistakes to crack exam with high percentile

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is all set to conduct the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2022 examination today, April 09 in a computer-based test. To ace the CMAT exam 2022 with a high percentile, candidates must attempt ample CMAT mock tests and also go through the last year’s CMAT exam analysis to understand the paper pattern and types of questions that are asked in the exam. It will help the candidates in exam strategy, learning time management, and many more.
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NTA CMAT 2022: What changed this year?

• CMAT 2022 will be conducted in a single shift - 3 PM to 6 PM (3 hours)

• The NTA has decreased the total number of CMAT exam centers from 153 to 124.

• As per the revised CMAT exam pattern 2022, Innovation & Entrepreneurship section is now mandatory along with the other four sections.

• Students who are going to appear for the CMAT exam 2022 today, April 9 can check the section-wise questions and marks distribution from the table below.

Revised CMAT exam pattern 2022

Previous year CMAT analysis: Section-wise

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CMAT: Past year students' reaction

As per the last year’s CMAT exam analysis, the overall difficulty level of CMAT 2021 Shift 2 is easy and the Shift 2 is easy to moderate.

One of the aspirants, Sharma said, “The Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation section took some time-consuming in the CMAT exam. The CMAT GK question was difficult and a student could get good marks if he could answer more than 15 questions. The reasoning section was between easy to moderate difficulty levels”.

Another candidate, Raiza said, “That the overall difficulty level of CMAT 2021 was easy to moderate. GK wasn't around recently. In the language comprehension section, most questions are asked about synonyms and antonyms, and English grammar. So, LR was the easiest section, and faced one wrong question in LR. In the QA, the weightage of probability was higher compared to last year’s CMAT.

CMAT 2022: Mistakes to avoid

Being nervous and stressed during exams is very common and there are some common mistakes that candidates make on exam day. Here are the mistakes to be avoided by the students appearing for the CMAT 2022 exam, check it out -

• Candidates must have a CMAT exam strategy and adhere to it when appearing for the exam.

• Do not spend too much time on any one question. If you are not sure of the answer, keep the negative score in mind and move on to the next one.

• If two or three questions cannot be solved consecutively, candidates should not panic because it will block their mental presence and end in chaos.