MBA Entrance Exam

UPES Management Entrance Test (UPESMET) is conducted for admission to MBA programme of UPES School of Business. UPESMET question paper will consist of questions four sections viz., English,  Quantitative Aptitude,  General Awareness and Analytical Reasoning. The General English part will have questions from Reading Comprehension, Verbal Reasoning and Verbal Ability. In the Quantitative Aptitude section, questions will be asked from Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency. The General Awareness section will have questions from General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Business Scenario. 

Some of the important topics for UPESMET analytical reasoning section are:

• Data Arrangement
• Seating Arrangement
• Blood Relations
• Family Tree
• Venn Diagram
• Matching Puzzles
• Constraint-Based Puzzles
• Syllogism
• Proposition
• Assumptions
• Statements
• Binary Logic
• Clocks and Calendars
• Sets

UPESMET is conducted for admission to MBA programme of UPES School of Business. To prepare for UPESMET exam candidates must ensure to take UPESMET mock tests and solve previous year question papers to become familiar with the exam pattern and syllabus.

UPESMET QA important topics are:

• Arithmetic
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Number System
• Modern Mathematics
• Higher Maths
• Mensuration
• Trigonometry
• HCF
• LCM
• Arithmetic Progression
• Arithmetic Mean
• Geometric Progression
• Geometric Mean
• Harmonic Mean
• Median
• Mode
• BODMAS
• Ratio and Proportion
• Percentage
• Average
• Partnership
• Time, Speed, Distance
• Work and Time
• Profit and Loss
• Instalments and Payments
• Partnership
• Clocks
• Work and Time
• Pipe and Cisterns
• Lines
• Angles and Triangles
• Cubes and Cones

The CAT VARC section is dominated by RC questions. Out of 24 questions about 14-16 are based on Reading Comprehension passages and the rest of them are based on parajumbles, para completion, etc.

CAT has about 12-16 RC question. Since, it is not mandatory to solve all the questions, candidates can maximize their scores by leaving out the questions related to the passage they find the toughest. There is negative marking in CAT so candidates must ensure that they mark only the correct options or do not mark any option at all.

In XAT, Reading Comprehension passages are usually taken from Philosophy, Psychology, History, Art, research articles. Sometime, the XAT RC section also has poems. These areas are chosen to test the candidates, who are largely Science, Commerce and Engineering graduates, on their ability to come out of their comfort zone and adapt to unfamiliar situations. Out of 26 questions, about 14-16 questions are based on RC passages or a poem. Candidates must target solving about 10 questions accurately to score well. XAT has negative marking so do not mark an option as your answer if you are not 100 percent sure of it.

IIT Kanpur CAT cutoff is released for multiple categories, including OBC. Candidaes seeking IIT Kanpur admission 2023 to MBA course is based on CAT. Candidates can check out IIT Kanpur CAT cutoff for OBC category in the table below for last three years: 

The final IIT Kanpur CAT cutoff 2023 will be released after the CAT exam results are announced. IIT Kanpur admission 2024 to MBA course is based on CAT scores 2023 followed by the final Interview round. Going as per the last three year trends, IIT Kanpur cutoff 2022 for CAT was 90 Percentile. Tabulated below is IIT Kanpur cutoff for MBA offered through CAT  for last three years: