MICAT Analysis 2026 (Available): Get Detailed Paper Analysis & Review

MICAT is conducted in two phases; highlights of the first phase of MICAT 2025 are as follows:

• Overall difficulty level of the exam was moderate with the exam being time consuming.
• In the Psychometric Test, 117 questions had ordinal options (Totally agree, strongly agree, somewhat agree ..., totally disagree)
• 33 questions in the Psychometric test had binary options (True/False)
• The descriptive test had a statement. Candidates had to provide 3 points each for and against the statement. Additionally, candidates had to mention their opinions about the problem.
• The descriptive test also had a picture perception question with four images
  • Luggage
  • Man in a market
  • A fly on butter served on a plate
  • A metallic camel
• In the picture perception question, candidates have to make a story connecting four images in one story.
• Sentence fillers from Verbal Ability had a weightage of six questions.
• RC had a topic related to people on social media.
• In QA and DI, maximum questions appeared from Arithmetic.
• Coding-Decoding had maximum weightage with 7-8 questions in Divergent and Convergent Thinking.
• General Awareness section had 2 match the following type questions, and eight MCQ type questions.
• In some questions, candidates found up to eight options.

The table below mentions the section-wise difficulty level of the MICAT phase I exam:

Section	Name of Section	Difficulty Level
Section A	Psychometric Test	No right or wrong answers
Section B	Descriptive Test	Moderate
Section C	Divergent and Convergent Thinking	Moderate to Tough
	Verbal Ability	Moderate
	Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation	Moderate to Tough
	General Awareness	Moderate to Tough

The MICAT 2025 exam had three sections. The last section had four sub-sections. Apart from the sectional time limit, the MICAT test structure was in line with previous sessions. Space below mentions the section-wise MICAT exam analysis:

MICAT 2025 Analysis for Section A: Psychometric Test

The Psychometric Test of MICAT 2025 had 150 questions to be answered within 30 minutes. The section is designed to test the psychological thinking of the candidate. Questions in the Psychometric Test are designed to ask questions that revolve around specific situations. Candidates found the section to be lengthy.

• With specific situational questions, candidates were asked about their opinion if they agree or disagree
• Besides the situation based questions, candidates had to answer true and false type questions

This year, the Psychometric test involved a total of 117 questions with up to eight options as mentioned below:

• Totally Disagree 
• Strongly Disagree 
• Disagree 
• Somewhat Disagree 
• Somewhat Agree 
• Agree 
• Strongly Agree 
• Totally Agree

As many as 33 questions in the section had binary options, such as true/false. 

MICAT 2025 Analysis for Section B: Descriptive Test

The Descriptive Test of MICAT 2025 had four questions to be answered within 25 minutes. A statement related to merit in the hierarchy appeared in the descriptive test. The statement brings along three questions. Candidates had to write three points for the motion, three points against the motion and the third question from the statement is to analyse 'Young Manager's Decision Making’.

The last question in this section had four images based on which candidates had to frame an essay integrating all the images. The images for the essay writing were as follows:

• Luggage
• Man in a market
• A fly on butter served on a plate
• A metallic camel

MICAT 2025 Analysis for Section C

Section C has four subsections to be answered within 80 minutes. Candidates are allowed to navigate across the subsections. Three subsections had 20 questions each with no sectional time limit. While, one section had 10 questions.

Below we analyse all four sub-sections of MICAT Section C:

MICAT (1) 2025 Analysis: Divergent and Convergent Thinking

This subsection comprised verbal as well as non-verbal reasoning questions. The topic-wise number of questions in the Divergent and Convergent Thinking of MICAT-I 2025 were as follows:

Name of Topic	Number of Questions
Word association	4-5
Number based reasoning	3
Coding Decoding	7-8
Arrangement	2-3
Directions	1
Blood relations	1
Binary logic	1

MICAT (1) 2025 Analysis: Verbal Ability

The VARC section or the Verbal Ability section had 20 questions. The type of questions asked in the section was fill in the blanks based on words and idioms. There were three RCs, students found the comprehension to be a bit on the tougher side with difficult vocabulary. The comprehensions were based on:

• Cryptocurrency
• Greek legends
• Philosophy

The table below mentions the topics included in the Verbal Ability section of MICAT (1) 2025:

Name of Topic	Number of Questions
Reading Comprehension (People on Social Media)	5
Missing sentence	1
Error spotting	1
Parajumble	1
Sentence fillers	6
Odd one out	1
Analogy	1
Critical reasoning	2
Para summary	1

MICAT (1) 2025 Analysis: Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation

Quant was the most difficult section. All the questions in quantitative Ability were difficult except for one question. The table below mentions the topic wise number of questions in the QA and DI part of MICAT 2025 section C:

Name of Topic	Number of Questions
Bar graph	4
Geometry, Mensuration	4-5
Arithmetic	5-6
Algebra	2-3
Set theory (4 set Venn diagram)	1
Modern math	2-3

MICAT (1) 2025 Analysis: General Awareness

The General Awareness section was doable if compared with the mock tests. The type of questions included were in the form of true and false, match the following, etc. Questions in the GK section were based on static GK as well as current affairs. The topics included in the section were as follows:

• Meaning of Austerity Measures
• Match the Following (LOGO based)
• Identify Coke slogan
• Reliance owned Companies
• OTT Comes under which Govt. Org.
• Mergers
• Brand Ambassador
• Most valuable person of NBA
• TATA Group
• Match the following (Slogans with Company Name)

The test structure for MICAT 2025 followed in the phase I exam was as follows:

Section	Name of Section	Number of Questions
Section A	Psychometric Test	150
Section B	Descriptive Test	4
Section C	Divergent and Convergent Thinking	20
	Verbal Ability	20
	Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation	20
	General Awareness	10
Total		224

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