CMAT February 2015 results analysis: Scores plunge as exam becomes difficult
CMAT February 2015 results are finally out!
Conducting body All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has taken out a national merit ranking of 57700 candidates. The ranking list is based on the total marks scored by a candidate. Candidates can download their CMAT results score cards from March 25 to April 25, 2015.
This time, the highest score has further plunged to 305 from 325 in CMAT September 2014 exam. In CMAT May 2013 the maximum score was 355. The highest score has declined by 14% over the last two years.
“Overall, the scores of candidates has gone down by 10% to 20% as compared to the previous CMAT test. The exam has become more difficult,” says Mikin Shah, CMAT expert and founder of Foresight School.
Two candidates have scored 100 percentile, followed by six candidates scoring 99.99 percentile, and another six candidates scored 99.98 percentile.
CMAT doesn’t disqualify any test taker. It simply lists every candidate in order of merit. CMAT results were declared on Wednesday morning, March 25, 2015. The scores are considered for admission by various B-school across India. List of top B-schools accepting CMAT scores.
Here’s a detailed analysis of CMAT February 2015 results:
CMAT February 2015 Toppers
This year, the two candidates – Pawan Khanna and K Sunil Kumar – have scored 305 marks, i.e., 100 percentile. The third topper, Gaurav Dave, has scored 295, 99.99 percentile. Incidentally, Dave was the first topper of CMAT September 2014. Here’s a detailed list of the toppers and their sectional and final scores plus percentiles:
| Rank |
Name |
QTDI Score (Percentile) |
LR Score (Percentile) |
LC Score (Percentile) |
GA Score (Percentile) |
Total Score (Percentile) |
| 1 |
Pawan Khanna |
85 (99.94) |
100 (100) |
65 (99.41) |
55 (99.9) |
305 (100) |
| 2 |
K Sunil Kumar |
85 (99.94) |
95 (99.96) |
65 (99.41) |
60 (99.94) |
305 (100) |
| 3 |
95 (99.99) |
95 (99.96) |
60 (98.93) |
45 (99.57) |
295 (99.99) |
|
| 4 |
Supreet Gupta |
87 (99.97) |
90 (99.75) |
65 (99.41) |
49 (99.74) |
291 (99.99) |
| 5 |
Prakash Rajput |
95 (99.99) |
85 (99.14) |
70 (99.7) |
39 (98.69) |
289 (99.99) |
| 6 |
Basak Shubhadeep Anjan |
92 (99.99) |
85 (99.14) |
56 (98.34) |
50 (99.8) |
283 (99.99) |
| 7 |
Shetty Krishan BHaskar |
82 (99.92) |
80 (97.9) |
60 (98.93) |
56 (99.92) |
278 (99.99) |
| 8 |
Ashwini Anand |
68 (99.34) |
85 (99.14) |
75 (99.88) |
49 (99.74) |
277 (99.99) |
| 9 |
Sourav Basu |
90 (99.98) |
92 (99.89) |
70 (99.7) |
24 (88.38) |
276 (99.98) |
| 10 |
Rohan Thulaseedharan Pillai |
79 (99.84) |
81 (98.3) |
70 (99.7) |
46 (99.64) |
276 (99.98) |
| 11 |
Poojary Jivitesh Jaya |
77 (99.79) |
81 (98.3) |
58 (98.64) |
60 (99.94) |
276 (99.98) |
| 12 |
Sita Ramanath K |
73 (99.63) |
75 (95.91) |
80 (99.96) |
46 (99.64) |
274 (99.98) |
| 13 |
S Rajagopalan |
62 (98.82) |
96 (99.98) |
76 (99.91) |
37 (98.35) |
271 (99.98) |
| 14 |
Rishi Satish |
83 (99.93) |
85 (99.14) |
77 (99.93) |
22 (85.92) |
267 (99.98) |
| 15 |
Atishay Jain |
87 (99.97) |
73 (94.91) |
71 (99.76) |
33 (96.82) |
264 (99.97) |
| 16 |
Pushkar Deshpande |
87 (99.97) |
80 (97.9) |
51 (97.29) |
45 (99.57) |
263 (99.97) |
| 17 |
Gupta Rohan Sudhir |
90 (99.98) |
85 (99.14) |
71 (99.76) |
15 (70.42) |
261 (99.97) |
| 18 |
Akshay Satish Suryawanshi |
71 (99.53) |
90 (99.75) |
78 (99.95) |
22 (85.92) |
261 (99.97) |
| 19 |
Akhand Pratap Singh Parihar |
82 (99.92) |
90 (99.75) |
55 (98.14) |
33 (96.82) |
260 (99.97) |
| 20 |
Joshi Adwait Rajan |
62 (98.82) |
72 (94.4) |
71 (99.76) |
54 (99.87) |
259 (99.97) |
CMAT Cut-offs
“Looking at the difficulty level of the exam and the scores of candidates this time, one can expect to down slightly,” said Shah.
This year’s third topper Gaurav Dave is an academic expert at Testfunda.com. He too reiterated similar views. “One can expect CMAT cut-offs to come down marginally. Also, with all the confusion surrounding MAH-CET 2015, candidates will probably use CMAT scores as their first preference,” says Dave.
Expert Speak
According to experts, CMAT is becoming a difficult exam with every passing year. “The difficulty level in Mathematics has been maintained in CMAT February 2015. But the level of Logical Reasoning has gone up. Also, a look at the top scores will reveal that Language Comprehension no more scoring zone. In CMAT, there is more focus on RCs than on grammar or vocab,” says Mikin Shah.
You can read the detailed CMAT February 2015 exam analysis here.
Percentile List
Here’s a list of total number of candidates scoring percentiles:
| Percentile |
No of candidates scoring |
| 100 percentile |
2 |
| 99.99 percentile |
6 |
| 99.98 percentile |
6 |
| 99.97 percentile |
6 |
| 99.96 percentile |
5 |
| 99.95 percentile |
6 |
| 99.94 percentile |
6 |
| 99.93 percentile |
6 |
| 99.92 percentile |
6 |
| 99.91 percentile |
5 |
| 99.90 percentile |
6 |
All India Merit List for CMAT
The national merit list consists of candidates Roll number, Rank and final scores. The rankings have been arrived from the scores of the candidates. These scores are valid for the MBA admissions, academic year 2015-16.
In CMAT exam, candidates are assigned four (4) marks for each correct answer and zero (0) marks for no answer. For every wrong or incorrect answer, one (1) mark is deducted.
CMAT results lists out the scores in four sections - Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension and General Awareness.
The percentile has been calculated using the formula:
Percentile P = ( (N- your rank)/ N) x 100
(Where P is percentile and N is total number of candidates appeared for exam)
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