Analysis of Maharashtra MBA CET 2025 Slot No 2 [1st April 2025]

Maharashtra MBA CET 2025 Slot 2Details

Date: 1st April 2025 (Tuesday)

Slot: 2 pm to 4:30 pm

Total Number of Questions: 200

Total Time allotted: 150 minutes

No. of Choices per question: 5 choices

No. of Sections: 4 sections

Negative Marks: No negative marking

CET 2025 Paper Pattern

Students have reported that the paper was subdivided into sections. This proved to be a big boost to students’ confidence while attempting the paper as students could choose the section order and give priority to their strong areas.

Students have reported that there was a drop-down menu available at the top of the screen, in which the four sections were present as options. So, students could instantly navigate to any section. All questions within a section were available to choose from the question number pane present on the left of the screen. There was a button available to zoom in to improve readability.

The questions were numbered from 1 to 200 with the order of sections as in the table above.

Area 1: Logical Reasoning

One challenge faced by many students was arithmetic questions being given in Logical Reasoning section. Also there was no questions on input output and fewer puzzles. Section had a lot of quant based caselets.

Analytical Puzzles:

A fewer number of puzzles than previous year papers. Level of puzzles was moderate but number of questions on each puzzle was limited to 3 questions.

Logical Reasoning:

Students have reported that there are a good number of questions from the topics Direction sense, Blood Relations, Coding & Decoding, Deductions/Syllogisms were given. Students have reported that a majority of these questions are moderate to answer. Compared to the earlier slots.

Verbal/Critical Reasoning:

There are no verbal/critical reasoning questions in this slot.

A careful choice of questions plays a good role in scoring well in this section. A good number of attempts in this section would be about 45 questions, spending 50 minutes on this section.

Area 2: Abstract Reasoning

Students reported that there were 25 questions in this section, with a good number of questions being easy to moderate difficulty. There were a few questions that would have posed a challenge.

A majority of the questions were in the standard formats of Series types of questions like next figure and analogies. There were some questions on counting the number of triangles.

A student who has practiced the T. I. M. E. material well should be able to answer 20 to 22 questions with high accuracy in about 20 minutes.

Area 3: Quantitative Aptitude

Students have reported that this section was of moderate to difficulty level. Questions were very lengthy with accurate answers being expected. All fifty questions in the section were standard Quantitative Questions. There were no Data Interpretation questions. No questions were asked in the Quantitative Comparison form or in the form of Approximations.

According to the students, the questions were from the topics Ratio, Profit & Loss, Time & Work, Time & Distance, Average Mixtures & Alligations, Geometry Mensuration and Numbers. A majority of the questions were from the Time & work, Time & Distance, Numbers, Geometry and Mensuration area.

Students have recollected that the break-up of questions in this section was as follows:

A well-prepared student should be able to attempt 25-30 questions by spending around 50minutes in this section and score well with high accuracy.

Area 4: Verbal Ability/Reading Comprehension

The VARC section of CET 2025 of slot 2 was a moderately difficult and quite lengthy. This section was a mix of all the areas that test the student’s language skills. Questions consisted of Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Verbal ability (Para jumbles: 2 different patterns, Out of Context, Para Summary) & Grammar.

Overall it was very lengthy section with passages of length more than 300 to 400 words and having lesser question per passage.

Students have recollected that the break-up of questions in this section was as follows:

A student who prepared well could have attempted 30 to 35 questions spending about 30 minutes on this section.

Based on the student feedback on the overall, the paper can be classified as of moderate difficulty. From what the students have reported, the correct selection of questions along with speed is the key to a good score. Since there wasn’t any element of surprise in the type of questions, a judicious distribution of time and choice would have ensured a comfortable number of attempts with a good accuracy. A good student should have attempted around 120 -130 questions. However, students aiming for the top colleges should have attempted around 140 - 145 questions.