The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is a national-level entrance exam for admission to management programs, conducted by the NTA since 2019. The exam consists of 100 questions across five sections: Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension, General Awareness, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Each section carries 20 questions for 80 marks. The total score is 400 marks, with a marking scheme of +4 for correct answers and -1 for incorrect answers in the Language Comprehension section. There is no negative marking for other sections.
CMAT Cut-off
Nearly 1,300 B-Schools in India accept the CMAT test result for admission to various MBA/PGDM programmes. Some of the most well-known MBA institutions that accept CMAT results are listed below.
College Name | Cutoff %ile |
JBIMS | 99.87 |
SIMSREE | 99.6 |
KJ Somaiya | 99.3 |
Welingkar Mumbai | 99.01 |
SIES Mumbai | 98.46 |
NL Dalmia | 98.46 |
XAVIERS | 97.61 |
MET | 96.95 |
CHETNA | 96.13 |
IES, MUMBAI | 96.13 |
PUMBA, PUNE | 96.13 |
LALA LAJPAT RAI | 94.47 |