CMAT Dates 2025: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will release the CMAT 2025 exam schedule in online mode on 25th January 2025. According to the CMAT dates, the registration process will begin from 14 November 2024 to 13 December, 2024 (upto 09:50 P.M.). The CMAT entrance exam 2025 will be held tentatively on the 25 January 2025. Read this article to know more about the registration date, admit card release date, CMAT exam date, result date, etc.
| Exam Name | CMAT 2025 |
| Exam Conducting Body | National Testing Agency (NTA) |
| Application Mode | Online mode |
| CMAT exam full form | Common Management Admission Test |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Exam level | National level |
| Exam mode | Online |
| Courses | PG management Courses |
Candidates can check the given below tentative exam dates of CMAT 2025:
| Events | Dates (Tentative) |
| Application form | 14 November 2024 to 13 December, 2024 (upto 09:50 P.M.) |
| Closing date of online application form | 14 December 2024 (upto 11:50 P.M.) |
| Application correction window | 15 December, 2024 to 17 December, 2024 |
| Admit Card | 20 January 2025 |
| CMAT Exam date | 25 January 2025 |
| Answer key release | May 2025 |
| Result Declaration | May 2025 |
Candidates can go through the below section to know the complete CMAT 2024 registration details:
| Category | Male | Female |
| General candidates | Rs. 2000/- | Rs. 1000/- |
| General-EWS/ SC/ ST/ OBC | Rs. 1000/- | Rs. 1000/- |
| Transgender | Rs. 1000/- | |
The candidates have to go through the following steps to apply for CMAT 2025:
Before starting with the application process, candidates must check out the minimum eligibility criteria:
The exam pattern for CMAT 2025 is mentioned below:
| Section | No. of Question | Maximum Marks |
| Logical Reasoning | 20 | 80 |
| General Awareness | 20 | 80 |
| Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation | 20 | 80 |
| Language Comprehension | 20 | 80 |
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship |
20 | 80 |
| Total | 100 | 400 |
The syllabus of CMAT 2025 will consist of several topics from Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation, General Awareness, and Language Comprehension.
The equal number of questions will be carried by each section, so candidates must focus on all the subjects to get better marks. Some topics from CMAT Syllabus is mentioned below:
| Subjects | Topics |
| Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation | Speed, Time and Distance, Percentages, Averages, Ratio and Proportion, Profit, Tables, Bar Graphs, Line Charts, Venn Diagrams, Pie Chart, etc. |
| Logical Reasoning | Logical Sequence, Data Structure, Number and Letter Series, Binary Logic, Direction sense, Clocks and Calendars, Puzzles, Syllogism, Seating Arrangement, Coding-Decoding, Blood Relations, etc. |
| Language Comprehension | Reading comprehension, Passages, Sentence Correction, Jumbled Paragraphs, etc. |
| General Awareness | Current Affairs of National and International Economy, Personalities in News, Indian Constitution, Sports News, Trade Awareness, Politics, History, Culture, Geography, Economics, Sports Science in everyday life. |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Important Events, Budget and Economic Survey, Business and Corporate affairs, New Investment and schemes, policies related to entrepreneurship and Business Promotion, Startups Ecosystem, Banking Regulation and Reforms, Internationals Organizations, General Economy, and Current Affairs. |
Candidates can go through the given preparation tips to score higher in the CMAT 2025 examination:
The CMAT admit card 2025 will be released on 20 January 2025. It will be released through online mode on the website. The authority will release the admit card for registered candidates only.
Those candidates who have successfully submitted their application form will be issued the admit card by the exam conducting authority. It will consist of details such as name, personal details, exam date, exam venue, reporting time, photograph , signature, and other exam related details. On the day of entrance exam, candidates will have to carry the hardcopy of the admit card to sit in the examination.
The CMAT result 2025 will be declared by the authority in the month of May 2025 It will be released through online mode only on the website. On the based of marks secured in the online test, an All India merit list of the candidates will also be published online.
The merit list will consist of their names, roll number, score, and percentile in each section. The authority will not sent the separate scorecard to the candidates by email/ post or any other medium. The scorecard of the CMAT 2025 will be considered for admission to the academic year, which will be taken into consideration by different AICTE- Approved colleges/ institutions and universities. The authority will not provide any offline mode to download the scorecard.
NTA will declare the CMAT 2025 result in online mode at the official website- cmat.nta.nic.in in the month of May 2025. With the help of the NTA CMAT exam result 2025, candidates can check details like sectional percentile, total percentile, sectional score, total score, rank, etc. More than 1000 AICTE-approved B-schools will offer MBA admission on the basis of CMAT scores.
A centralized counselling will not be organized by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for qualified candidates. Counselling procedure will be started after the declaration of the merit list through online mode. On the basis of the candidate’s performance in the entrance exam, a merit list will be prepared.
Candidates will be able to appear in the counselling procedure conducted by the different institutions and universities on the basis of marks on the CMAT 2025 scorecard. To bring the important documents at the time of counselling will be mandatory for all the qualified candidates. Candidates will also have to submit the fees during the counselling process. Seats will be allotted to the shortlisted candidates based in the scores of CMAT, filled choice, and availability of seats.
The list of the documents that candidates are supposed to bring at the time of CMAT Counselling includes: