MBA-CET: 28 grace marks for erroneous questions across three sessions

The Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell has announced that candidates who appeared for the MBA CET exam held from April 1 to 3, 2025 will be awarded one grace mark for each of the 28 questions found to be incorrect across three different exam sessions.

The decision comes in response to multiple objections raised by students on questions asked across different sessions of exam held on the three days. According to the notification issued by the Maharashtra CET Cell, a total of 253 objections were raised by students addressing issues with 101 questions. Logical reasoning section had the highest number of complaints (134), followed by 35 objections each in Quantitative Aptitude and Verbal Ability and 21 in Abstract Reasoning. Upon detailed review, 28 questions have been found to be incorrect. Accordingly, it is decided to award one mark per erroneous question to students who appeared for MBA CET in those particular sessions. Over 1.5 lakh candidates appeared for the MBA-CET in total.

An official from CET Cell clarified that it is important to note that the grace marks will be awarded to only those students who appeared for the MBA-CET in those particular sessions where erroneous questions were identified. Grace marks will be awarded to candidates based on the number of erroneous questions in a particular session. The CET Cell has not only decided to award grace marks for these flawed questions but has also updated the official answer key for six of them.

Erroneous questions per session

April 1 (Morning) – 2 incorrect questions

April 1 (Afternoon) – 1

April 2 (Morning) – 10

April 2 (Afternoon) – 4

April 3 (Morning) – 2

April 3 (Afternoon) – 9