TANCET 2025 exam will be conducted for admission to MBA and MCA courses in Tamil Nadu. Know the last month's preparation tips and strategies for the exam in this article below.
TANCET or Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test is expected to be conducted in May. With the TANCET exam approaching in March, candidates must focus on their TANCET last month preparation tips. Being a highly competitive exam, one can not make any mistake during the last month's preparation phase. Anna University is conducting TANCET 2025 for admissions to MBA and MCA courses in colleges across Tamil Nadu. Several aspirants would have completed the topics as per the TANCET syllabus. However, many might have started the preparation. In the last month, they must be ready with a test-taking plan to maximise their attempts and accuracy.
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TANCET 2025 Test Pattern
The table below brings the TANCET 2025 exam structure which test-takers must keep in mind while doing the final month preparation.
| TANCET Exam Pattern |
Details |
|---|---|
| Duration |
Two hours |
| Number of Questions Per Section |
20 |
| Total number of Questions |
100 |
| Total Number of Sections |
Five (Business Situations, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Ability, Data Sufficiency and English Usage) |
| Total marks |
100 |
| Negative marks |
1/3 |
| Medium |
English |
TANCET 2025 Last Month Preparation Strategy
Candidates can ace the TANCET exam with a month's preparation if they plan their studies smartly. Here are some proven tips and tricks that would help in the last month preparation for TANCET 2025:
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Decide the topics from each section
The TANCET 2025 syllabus is quite diverse. Candidates can't prepare for each and every topic. Since candidates have gone through the syllabus by now, they should have a fair idea of their strengths and weaknesses. On the basis of their ability and the weightage on each topic, which they have observed in the past year's question papers, candidates should shortlist and finalise the topics they want to pursue from each section of TANCET. Aspirants must remember to measure both these factors while selecting the topics for preparation.
Anna University prescribes the marking scheme of TANCET MBA and MCA exam. Candidates preparing for the exam day strategy must know the TANCET marking scheme to plan the best strategy. The TANCET exam marking scheme is as follows:
- Each correct response will fetch 1 mark
- Any incorrect response in the TANCET exam will lead to deduction of 1/3 mark
- No negative marking prevails for the unattempted questions
Since the TANCET exam have a negative marking for incorrect response, candidates must only mark the answers in the OMR sheet if they are sure of the same. Negative marking may decrease the overall score extensive.
Each section of the TANCET exam, incliding the Business Situation Analysis section have equal question weightage. A total of 100 questions appear in the TANCET MBA question paper with each section having 20 questions. Each question have four options with one correct option. Candidates need to mark the bubble for the correct option in the OMR sheet.
Revision
It is high time candidates start revising the sections of TANCET. Since revision is the key to cracking any exam, they should revise on the areas they have already prepared for. The revision will strengthen their learning and conceptual clarity. In case they falter in revising, they would gradually lose their understanding and ability of the topics.
Solving Mock Test and Previous Years’ Question Papers
Along with revision, practice holds equal significance in preparation. Aspirants should focus on solving mock tests and previous years’ question papers. TANCET is still conducted in paper-pencil-based mode (PBT), hence candidates should solve the mock tests in offline mode only. While solving the practice papers, candidates should ensure that they solve the test within the stipulated duration, two hours, and ideally at the same time their test is scheduled. Regular practice would hone their skills and learning and familiarise them with different types of questions they can expect at the test. Moreover, they will also get habituated to take the test in a suitable environment.
Decide Test-Taking Strategy
With regular practice, candidates will gain familiarity with the exam pattern. By now, they should finalise the exam-taking strategy, which includes section-wise time management, the number of questions to attempt in each section and timing for each section. Without a concrete test-taking strategy, candidates may lose time on deciding on these factors. Hence, it is advised that candidates decide on test-taking strategies and practice accordingly.
Yes, the TANCET MBA question paper will have 20 questions each from five sections i.e. Business Situation Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Ability, Data Sufficiency and English Usage. In TANCET MCA exam, there are four sections, therefore with equal weightage each section has 25 questions.
No, there is no definite pattern of the questions from certain topics in the TANCET exam. The candidates are required to cover all TANCET sections and topics under these sections. Anna University can cover any topic to define the questions from the section stipulated in the TANCET syllabus.
TANCET exam is conducted for MBA and MCA admission. More than 25,000 candidates take the TANCET exam for MBA admission. The sections vary for MBA and MCA exams. The space below mention the TANCET MBA exam pattern:
- Mode of TANCET exam: Offline, OMR based
- Type of questions: Objective type
- Number of questions: 100
- Number of sections: 5
- Exam duration: 120 minutes
- Maximum marks: 100
- Marks for correct response: 1 mark
- Mark down for incorrect response: 1/4 mark
- Exam medium: English
The TANCET MBA syllabus is based on five sections. The sections for TANCET MBA exam include:
- Business Situations
- Reading Comprehension
- Quantitative Ability
- Data Sufficiency
- English Usage
All sections in the TANCET exam have equal weightage.
Learn Short Cut Techniques and Revise Formulae
Along with revision and practice, candidates should chalk out shortcut techniques to solve questions more accurately and quickly. Since TANCET is a time-consuming test. Hence, candidates must resort to shortcut techniques and keep the formulae list handy to maximise the scores. They should write down the shortcut techniques and formulae in a notebook and revise them daily to memorise these by heart.
Focus on Speed and Accuracy
As stated earlier, TANCET is a time-consuming test involving negative marking. Hence, maintaining both speed and accuracy are crucial for cracking TANCET. Hence, aspirants should focus on these two areas while practising. They can improve on speed by using shortcut techniques, which has been discussed in the above point. For accuracy, the best way to improve is to find out the sources or reasons for committing mistakes. It can be either a silly mistake or a lack of conceptual clarity. If it is the former, one has to resort to more and more practice. For the latter, they have to focus on the concepts. The remaining days are expected to be enough to master the areas and avoid errors while attempting questions.
Strengthen Your Weak Areas
Aspirants may feel underconfident about their weak areas and may feel that the time is not enough, but in reality, they still have sufficient time left to study and improve on the weaker areas of TANCET 2025. However, candidates must focus on the weak areas at the earliest possible, as it is advised not to start a new topic or delve into the weak areas at the last moment. At this stage, candidates should brush up on the basics for the areas of their weaknesses and attempt the sectional or topic-wise practice questions. If candidates find the weak areas too tough or beyond their understanding to be managed within the last month, they may leave out those topics provided those do not carry a high weightage in the TANCET question paper.
Stay healthy and stress-free
Along with regular preparation, it is suggested that aspirants take care of their physical and mental health. They should not stress too much about the exam preparation and take regular breaks and sleep for at least eight hours daily to keep their body and mind refreshed and healthy. They should also maintain a healthy diet and drink lots of water to stay hydrated. It is even more important for the professional aspirants to balance their work and preparation properly to not miss out on either aspect.
Last but not the least, candidates should be confident about their preparation and ability and not let any fear or anxiety bog them down.
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Student Forum
Answered Yesterday
No, Anna University does not refund the TANCET application fee if candidates fail to appear for the exam. TANCET registration fee is non refundable.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered Yesterday
Candidates need to upload photograph and signature while filling TANCET application form. Candidates have to upload the documents in JPG format.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered Yesterday
Last date for TANCET registration is notified with the release of notification. Candidates can expect TANCET registration to end within a month of the start date.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered Yesterday
Most of the candidates find TANCET as an easy to moderate exam. Candidates find the exam easy if compared with national-level tests like CAT or XAT. It is a speed-based test with 100 questions to be answer in 120 minutes. Time becomes the primary challenge for the test takers.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered Yesterday
The overall difficulty level of the TANCET exam is considered moderate by most of the test takers. TANCET is a speed-based test with 100 MCQs to be completed in 120 minutes.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered Yesterday
Soon after the TANCET results are declared, candidates will be able to download the scorecard. DTE Tamil Nadu facilitates the TN MBA admission process. Candidates have to get their documents verified to be considered for centralised counselling.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered 6 days ago
Sections in TANCET exam include Analysis of Business Situations, Reading Comprehension, Quantitative Ability, Data Sufficiency, and English Usage/Grammar.
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Contributor-Level 6
Answered 6 days ago
A good score in TANCET depends on the course for admission. Generally, a score of 60+ marks (out of 100) for MBA and 55+ for MCA is considered good for admission into top-tier colleges via TANCET.
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Contributor-Level 6
TANCET exam for MBA admission have five sections. Each section of the TANCET exam have an equal weightage. Anna University provides 20 per cent weightage to all five sections of the exam. Eacg section has 20 questions, collectively taking the question count to 100. The sections in the TANCET MBA exam include:
Since all the sections of the TANCET exam have equal weightage, candidates provide equal importance to all five sections. Any of the section may lead to act as an advantage in pulling the overall score of the candidate.