CMAT September 2014: Student and expert reactions

CMAT September 2014 has officially commenced. Student reactions are pouring in from across the country. And the common verdict is: the exam had moderate difficulty level.

According to Shiksha expert Parasharan Chari, “CMAT September 2014 is a paper for the well prepared. It was an extreme standard, no brilliance, no stupidity paper!” View CMAT 2014 Analysis.

“Exam was more on the mediocre side,” said another candidate on condition of anonymity. “Nothing like the mocks I gave. I scored pretty average in the mocks around 200 – 215. Yet, I found the LR section in the paper a bit tricky. English was easy. GK was tough. Answer options were not wrong. If you've studied really hard then the whole paper was doable, except of course the GK section. Anyways, study hard would be my advice to my peers. Best of luck,” the person added.

Questions ranged from easy to moderate in most sections. However, many experts and academicians opined that analytical reasoning and general knowledge questions were a bit on the difficult side.

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For Saagar Gandhi and Ajay Patel, a student of Saurasthra University, who took the exam at Ahmedabad centre, “The General Knowledge section had questions on current affairs and static GK. Several questions on history was also there. There were about 12 to 14 questions reading comprehensions in my paper. Overall, the paper was moderate.”

“Do not fret about the GK section during the last few days of your preparation. No matter how well you have prepared, there will always be something that you do not know. A logical approach would be to go through a compilation of major headlines during last six months,” Mikin Shah, founder of Foresight Management School. View last minute CMAT preparation tips.