IPMAT Indore 2025 Analysis
This analysis of IPMAT Indore 2025 is for students who are about to begin their search or preparation for the IPMAT examination or have just begun, but do not know enough about the pattern of the examination.
Duration: 120 minutes
- Numerical Ability Short Answer Questions: 15 (+4 for correct, no negative marks)
- Numerical Ability Multiple Choice Questions: 30 (+4 for correct, -1 for incorrect)
- Verbal Ability Multiple Choice Questions: 45 (+4 for correct, -1 for incorrect)
Questions in Numerical Ability were from:
- Number Systems
- Logarithms
- Polynomials
- Permutation and Combination
- Probability
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Time & Work
- Arithmetic and Geometric Progression
- Matrices
- And also, Logical Reasoning
Short Answer Questions:
In terms of difficulty level, the questions were in the easy to medium range. The medium ones were not difficult because of the concept being hard but because they were tedious or time-taking to solve. Since the cut-off this year was low, one could have complete the required attempts in the section very easily in the allotted time of 40 minutes.
Multiple Choice Questions:
In terms of difficulty level, a higher proportion of questions were in the medium range as compared to Short Answer Questions section. Students should have been judicious in selecting the questions that were either easy or those that they were conceptually clear about.
Verbal Ability Question Types:
Reading Comprehension passages – Two around 500 words each with a total of 12 questions
Conversation Analysis – 6 questions
Fill in the blanks – 13 questions
Sentence Correction – 5 questions
Paragraph Completion – 4 questions
Parajumbles – 5 questions
The Verbal Ability section was mostly easy and students could have maximized their scores here for an overall high score.
One passage for reading comprehension was based on contemporary developments around misinformation and fake posts on social. Students who would have read and heard about the topic would have got the context and answered the questions correctly and quickly. The other passage was from Consumer Behavior (an important topic in management education) based on the experience of consumption in today’s times.
