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PGCET MBA exam pattern

100

Questions

single-best-answer MCQ

100

Total marks

+1 per correct answer

120 min

Duration

2 hours

None

Negative marking

attempt every question

5

Sections

biggest: General Knowledge (25)

Annual

Held

once a year, by KEA

The Karnataka PGCET (MBA) is a 100-question, 100-mark MCQ exam taken in 120 minutes.

Every correct answer earns +1 mark and there is NO negative marking — an unattempted or wrong answer costs nothing, so you should attempt every question. Selecting more than one option scores 0 for that question.

KEA publishes no per-section breakdown: its syllabus states only that the paper is 100 one-mark questions. So the split below is our own count of the recent KEA question papers, not something KEA declares:

  • Computer Awareness — 20 questions
  • Analytical Ability and Logical Reasoning — 18 questions
  • Quantitative Analysis — 18 questions
  • English Language — 19 questions
  • General Knowledge — 25 questions

Ranks are based on raw marks out of 100, in descending order — there is no percentile or normalization for the MBA paper. Ties are broken by higher qualifying-degree aggregate, then age (older first), then a draw of lots.

The exam is held once a year by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).

Where those section counts come from — and why they move

They are a measurement, not an announcement. KEA prints no per-section split anywhere, so we counted its recent question papers ourselves; the numbers above are that count, averaged across the current-pattern sittings. Every one of those sittings differed from the one before it, so read the split as the best available picture of the shape rather than a promise about your paper — and prepare all of it, because the block that shrinks one year grows the next. Two things worth knowing about how the counting works. Recent papers print no section headings at all, and the reasoning and the quantitative questions arrive interleaved as a single run. We keep those two apart here because they are different skills to practise, not because the paper draws a line between them.

What no negative marking means for strategy

With +1 per correct and zero penalty, the optimal strategy is 100% attempt rate. Speed and elimination skills matter more than caution — which is exactly what timed practice builds.