CMI Entrance Exam

Students from CMI have gone on to pursue further studies at the best academic institutions in India and abroad. These include Berkeley, Caltech, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Penn,  Princeton, Stanford and Yale in USA, ENS-Paris, Univ Paris-Sud and Univ Bordeaux in France,  the Max Planck Institutes and Humboldt University in Germany and IITs, IISc, IMSc, ISI and TIFR in India. Several CMI alumni are now faculty members at leading academic institutions in India, including IISc, IISERs, IITs, IMSc, ISI, IIITs and TIFR, not to mention CMI itself.

In order to get admission to the Chennai Mathematical Institute, the primary way to get admissions is via appearing in the CMI Entrance Exam 2025. However, there are a few instances where one can get admitted to the institute without taking the CMI entrance exam:

• Students with exceptionally good performance in the National Olympiads in Mathematics, Physics and Informatics are exempted from writing the BSc entrance examination.

• For CMI's PhD programmes, you can also qualify for the interview by writing national-level exams such as JEST and NBHM. Specific details are given below for Mathematics,  Computer Science, and Physics.

The Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) entrance exam for the 2025-26 admissions will be held on Saturday 24 2025 and 9:00 a.m. Application process is expected to begin around March 1 2025.

During the application process you have the option to select your exam city. There are 37 cities in which exam can be conducted. You can choose between them .

CMI Entrance Exam was conducted on 19 May 2024 and its result has been declared long ago and if you have given its exam then you can check your result by visiting the official website of CMI Entrance Exam with your application no. and password.

Candidates preparing for CMI Entrance exam for the academic session 2025-2026 will be able to download the CMI entarnce exam syllabus 2025 byvisiting the official website of Chennai Mathematical Institute exam 2025. 

CMI has not released the CMI entarnce exam 2025 syllabus, therefore aspirants are left with the option of going through the CMI entrance exam 2025 syllabus. It is highly expected that CMI exam syllabus doesn't change year to year, so candidates are suggested to either go to the CMI exam 2024 official website and search for CMI exam syllabus there.

CMI Entrance Exam 2025 will be conducted for admsisions to the BSc, MSc and Integrated PhD progarmmes in Mathematics, Data Science and Computer Science courses. In the CMI Entrance Exam 2025 candidates aptitutde and domain knowledge will be evaluated in the form MCQ and Subjective type questions. 

Section B of CMI entarnce exam 2025 will have subjection type of questions where candidates need to answer the questions with all the logical reasoning. Candidates are exempted to have 2 hours of duration to answer the Section B.

Candidates preparing for CMI Entrance Exam 2025, must be aware that in order to get admissions in the Chennai Matgematical Institute one need to score good in the Section A of CMI Entrance Examination.

The Section A is considered to be quligying based as one need to score atleast 24 marks in the Section A of the CMI Entarnce Examination 2025. Section A will have 10 MCQ questions of 40 marks. In order to get their Section B evaluated in the CMI Entrance Exam, candidates need to score a minimum of 24 marks in the Section A.

For all the courses available at Chennai Mathematical Institute, before appearing in the examination candidates need to check the below mentioned exam pattern for Section B:

• In section B, there will be 6 questions asked by the exam conducting body. The questions will be in the subjective format. Candidates need to exaplain the answers with the logical reasoning. The toatl marks awarded for the 6 questions will be 80 marks. 

The CMI Entrance Exam 2025 marking scheme for part A is as follows:

• In section A there will be 10 questions asked by the examination conducting body. The questions will be asked in the MCQ format. Four marks will be alloted for every correct answer and 1 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer marked by the tset takers in the examination.