Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is a national level computer based admission test for admission in all 3500+ AICTE approved B-school. CMAT started in 2012 and conducted twice a year by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) i.e. in the month of September and February. Students has the option to can sit for both the exams, hence they can choose their best score while seeking admission in any B-school across India.

Admission Times comes up with its free CMAT Mock Test Papers with Answers to help its student to crack this exam.

Check out Top 20 CMAT Questions of Language Comprehension, Quantitative ability, Logical Reasoning & General Knowledge That Would Test Your Skills.

CMAT 2016 TEST PATTERN –

CMAT is divided in four sections with 25 questions per section. We shall strategically focus on each section and the probable question type in it.

Section 1: Language Comprehension

Part 1.Error correction
Part-2: Questions on Vocabulary usage
Part-3: Jumbled sentences
Part-4: Reading comprehension

Section 2: Quantitative aptitude & data interpretation

Section-3: Logical Reasoning

Section-4: General Knowledge

Kindly find below the top 20 CMAT questions with solutions that would test your skill.

CMAT Language Comprehension

It is another name for Verbal Ability. This section will have 25 questions based on Grammar, Vocabulary usage; jumbled paragraphs and Reading Comprehension passages. Let us have samples on all the parts in this section

(Part 1.Error correction)

If you have strong fundamentals, know the core areas of Grammar and its usage, you can solve the 3-4 questions on error correction without much difficulty. Level of difficulty is moderate.

Q.1 & 2 Fill in the blanks with correct option

____ ______ mother ____ the salad when the table ______ set?
A. Whom; will help; with; will be
B. Whosoever; helped; on; is
C. Who; will help; for; will
D. Who; will help; with; is

Q.2 _____ my wife not ______ up until all ______ dinner?

Will; washing; will have had
B. Will; wash; have
C. Will; wash; would have had
D. Will; washing; will be having

(Part-2: Questions on Vocabulary usage)

Candidates may find 5 to 7 questions on vocabulary usage-like correction in word spelling; opting the correct synonym/antonym to fill in the blank or to replace the given word; expressing the meaning of a phrase or word; one word substitution. It will be better to practice them well before going for the test

Q.3. Our Prime Minister has categorically stated that the ________ India is making progress.
A. whole B. complete C. whole of D. total

Q.4. Although I do not have his birth certificate but I know that he is _______ than I.
A. elder B. older C. older D. eldest

Q.5. He was a very ________ person who acted very ________.
A. sensitive; sensible B. sane; sensitive C. sensibly; sensible D. sensible; sensibly

(Part-3: Jumbled sentences)

Jumbled sentences in CMAT are short and not very difficult to understand. The need is to place them coherently in a flow of ideas.

Q.6. In the following question, the given sentences when properly sequenced will form a coherent paragraph. 1 and 6 are the opening and concluding sentences and in between the other four labeled A,B,C,D are to be placed to make the paragraph meaningful and coherent. Choose the most logical order out of the given options that makes the coherent paragraph.

The jury is still out on the link
6. While talking on his phone, said ENT specialist
A. during World Deafness Week, doctors feel it is time to take a closer look at lifestyle factors
B. An audiogram of a 21-year-old revealed significant loss in his right ear, the one he favored
C. Doctors say they are now seeing patients going deaf in their twenties,
D. between new phones, listening devices and hearing loss, but DCAB CABD ABCD BACD

(Part-4: Reading comprehension)

You may find 8 to 10 small RC passages in CMAT. But unlike CAT/XAT, where multiple questions follow one RC passage, one question per passage is asked in CMAT and that question is also of reasoning type.

Read the short passage below and answer the question

Care should be taken when submitting manuscripts to book publishers. A suitable publisher should be chosen, by a study of his list of publications or an examination in the bookshops of the type of books in which he specializes. It is a waste of time and MONEY to send the typescript of a novel to a publisher who publishes no fiction, or poetry to one who publishes no verse, though all too often this is done. A preliminary letter is appreciated by most publishers, and this should outline the nature and extent of the typescript and enquire whether the publisher would be prepared to read it (writers have been known to send out such letters of enquiry in duplicated form, an approach not calculated to stimulate a publisher’s interest). It is desirable to enclose the cost of return postage when submitting the typescript and finally it must be understood that although every reasonable care is taken of material in the Publishers’ possession, responsibility cannot be accepted for any loss or damage thereto.

Authors are strongly advised not to pay for the publication of their work. If a MS. is worth publishing, a reputable publisher will undertake its publication at his own expense, except possibly for works of an academic nature.

Q.7. The author of the passage assumes that care in submitting the manuscript to the publisher for publication of the book needs to be taken due to which of the following reason

The publisher will stick to his line of publication only.
B. The publisher who does not publish the other books may not understand the ingredients and pattern of publication.
C. Publisher will not devote time to the Editing and reading the material which is not of its line of publication.
D. Any publisher, not publishing the stuff of other type will not be able to do justice with the manuscript.

CMAT Quantitative aptitude & data interpretation

The topics from which most of the questions appear in quant are arithmetic (ratios, mixtures, work, averages, profit & loss, percentage and counting principles. A few questions on permutation combination, geometry and algebra do also appear in the test.

Q.8. Jaya went to a fruit MARKET with certain amount of money. With this money she can buy either 40 peaches or 30 apples. She retains 15% of the money for her auto fare. If she buys 14 peaches, then the number of apples she can buy is:-

A. 10 B. 12 C. 13 D.15

Q.9. A railway half ticket costs half of the full fare and the reservation charge is the same on half ticket as on full ticket. A person reserved one full ticket from Hyderabad to Bangalore and paid Rs. 262/-. Another person reserved one full ticket and one half ticket and paid Rs.405. What is the reservation charge?

A. 48 B.24 C. 34 D.12

Q.10. The students in a class take either English course or Mathematics course or both. Twenty five boys take English and twenty eight girls take mathematics. Twenty girls take only English and thirty boys take only Mathematics. Three girls take both subjects. How many students are there in the class?

A. 103 B.97 C. 100 D. Indeterminate

CMAT Logical Reasoning

The section is a mix of the topics from problems on seating arrangements, sequencing, statement-conclusion, logical puzzle, numerical puzzle, Venn Diagram, true/false statements, visual reasoning. The basic preparatory tip for LR is to attempt as many practice exercises as possible

Q.11. If PRINCE is written as NPGLAC, then how is QUEEN written?

OSCCL B. PSCCL C.OSCCM D.OTCCL

Q.12. the question contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of three statements. Choose the set in which the statements are logically related.

All pens are pencils         B. Some pencils are not papers
C. No pencil is clip              D. No clip is book
E. Some books are pencils   F. No clip is pen

1. D, E, C 2. A, C, D 3. F, C, A 4. B, F, A

Q.13 & 14. In the following questions a pair of words in Capitals is given followed by four pairs of words. Choose from the choices, the pair which exhibits the same relationship as the capitalized pair of words.

ADVANCE: RETREAT
A. CREATE: DESTROY B. FORWARD: ONWARD C. BUY: SELL D. PUSH: PULL

Q.14. BODY: HAND

A. AUTOMOBILE: WHEEL B.THORN: FLOWER C. PIN: NAIL D. CHAIR : TABLE

CMAT General Awareness

This section can be the best scoring one. It can be divided in three parts and each part has to be given due weightage. Conventional GK-available in books; Current GK- based on current reading of newspapers and periodicals; Business & Economics GK. 25 questions are well balanced and covers all the above three parts.

Q.15. Name the First Indian Company that was admitted to TRADE on NYSE Euronext London and Paris on 20.2.13

Tata Consutancy Services (TCS)
B. Punjab National Bank
C.Infosys
D.Wipro

Q.16. Who is the president of FICCI?

A.Naina Lal Kidwai
B.Adi Godrej
C.D. S. Rawat
D.M. S. Unnikrishnan

Q.17. What is the name of the 1000 cr. Initial capitalFUND assigned in the Budget 2013 to establish all women bank?

A. Abhay FUND
B. Nirala fund
C. Nirbhay fund
D. Nirantar fund

Q.18. The Court of Arbitration (Intl. court of justice) Hague, has allowed India to go ahead with the construction of which hydro-electric project in Kashmir, rejecting Pakistan’s plea.

A. Kishanganga hydroelectric project
B. Jhelum Hydroelectric project
C. Baanganga hydroelectric project
D. Chinav Hydroelectric project

Q.19.The Tata group has tied up with Asia’s biggest budget carrier to reenter the country’s aviation sector. Name the carrier
A. Indigo
B. Goair
C. Jet
D. AirAsia

Q.20.Who is the new president and CEO of iGATE?

A. Phaneesh Murthy B. Rajesh Kalyan C. Ashok Vemuri D. S K Anant

Answers-

1.D, 2.B, 3.C, 4.B, 5.D, 6.DCAB, 7.D, 8.D, 9.B, 10.A, 11.A, 12.FCA, 13.D, 14.A, 15.C, 16.A, 17.C, 18.A, 19.D, 20.C