CMAT 2026 Previous Year Paper

Concocted means to create, formulate, mix or invent something, usually in a deceptive way. Cooked up is an informal phrase that means the same thing. Hence, concocted is the best fit here.

Veena inquired of Manorama why she had taken her pen? Is grammatically correct, but it is a sentence of indirect speech, and hence it should not end with a question mark. It should end with a period (full stop)

Milton is the Surdas of England 

This is the correct sentence, grammatically and logically, as it uses the article “the” appropriately, comparing Milton of England to Surdas of India and drawing a similarity between them.

“Brought about his ruin” is a common English idiom, meaning to cause someone’s downfall, destruction or failure, usually due to one’s own doing. So here, brought about ruin is the most appropriate choice.

Rennie is not only kind but also devoted is grammatically and logically correct, but it is the odd one out here, because out of all the sentences, this is the only sentence that uses connective conjunctions (not only…but also); all the other sentences use noun clauses (that, whether)

Cast away

Cast away means to discard, throw or be stranded after a shipwreck. So, here, wrecked (damaged, ruined) is the most appropriate choice.

The land problem is the one that (__) crores of people. We have to fill in this blank appropriately. The correct choice here is affects, since it is a Simple present tense sentence.

We have to fill in this blank with the appropriate option from the given options. We have to evaluate the grammar and singular/plural forms here to pick the right choice.

Have to be is the correct grammatical choice, as the simple present tense is used throughout the paragraph, since the facts are presented in general terms. “ Has to be” is incorrect because “values of life” is plural, and “have” is used with plural forms, whereas “has” is used with singular forms.

Here, “to be” is the correct choice, since the paragraph is in the simple present tense, and to be is the correct form of the simple present tense here.

A simple sentence is, by definition, a sentence that has one subject and one predicate. Example- The cat (subject) sat on the mat (predicate). Hence, statement one is correct.

A simple sentence also has only one finite verb. Like in ‘the cat sat on the mat’, sat is the only verb. Whereas, in a complex sentence “The cat sits on the mat when she feels bored,” there are two verbs- sit and feel. Hence, sentence two is also correct.