MHT-CET PCM practice papers
Three fixed full-length papers in the MHT-CET PCM pattern: 150 questions in 180 minutes, 50 from each subject, marked one mark for Physics and Chemistry and two for Mathematics for a total of 200. One question to a screen with a countdown and a question palette, then an instant score report with a worked solution beside every question.
Three papers, 450 questions
Each paper is a fixed set, so the same paper gives you the same 150 questions every time you sit it — that is what makes this month’s score comparable with last month’s. Nothing to download and no sign-up.
Paper 1
150 questions · 180 min · 200 marks
Paper 2
150 questions · 180 min · 200 marks
Paper 3
150 questions · 180 min · 200 marks
Source note: these are original MasterMan practice questions written to the MHT-CET syllabus and pattern. They are not CET Cell papers, and a score here does not convert into a percentile. For the real thing, see our MHT-CET previous-year papers.
The marking scheme is the whole point
Most free mock tests you will find online award one mark per question and total 150. The live MHT-CET does not: Physics and Chemistry carry one mark each and Mathematics carries two, which puts the paper out of 200 and makes Mathematics worth as much as Physics and Chemistry combined. These three papers are marked that way, and the difference is not cosmetic.
Think about what it does to your attempt order. On a flat 150-mark paper, a minute spent on a Chemistry question and a minute spent on a Maths question are worth the same. On the real paper they are not — the Maths minute is worth twice as much. A candidate who runs out of time with twelve Maths questions untouched has lost twenty-four marks; the same twelve left in Chemistry costs twelve. If you have practised only on flat-marked papers, you will have trained yourself into the wrong instinct about where to spend your last half hour.
The second thing the scheme does is remove any reason to leave a blank. Nothing is deducted for a wrong answer. A blank is a guaranteed zero, a guess between four options returns a quarter of a mark on average, and a guess after eliminating two options returns half. Over the fifteen or twenty questions most candidates are genuinely unsure about, that is several marks available at no risk whatsoever. Students who have prepared for JEE alongside the CET are the worst affected here, because caution about negative marking has become reflexive.
Always check the current brochure. The 1/1/2 split and the 200-mark total reflect the scheme used in recent years. Marking schemes do get revised, so confirm the pattern for your year in the official MHT-CET information brochure before you build a strategy on it.
Why the papers are fixed rather than shuffled
We offer both, and they do different jobs. The PCM format practice test shuffles a fresh 150-question paper out of the bank every time you open it, which is what you want for repeated drilling. These three papers are fixed: Paper 2 is the same 150 questions in January as it was in November.
That matters for measurement. If every attempt uses different questions, a ten-mark improvement might be improvement or it might be an easier draw, and you cannot tell which. With a fixed paper the questions are held constant, so the change in your score is a change in you. It also lets a teacher set the same paper for a whole class and compare results meaningfully, which a shuffled paper cannot do.
The trade-off is obvious: once you have sat Paper 1 and reviewed it, sitting it again mostly measures your memory. So treat the three as a resource to be spent rather than repeated — and keep one back for late in your preparation, when a fresh score actually tells you something.
Where the questions come from and how they were checked
The papers are dealt from a bank of 623 original PCM questions, each one written to a named chapter of the MHT-CET syllabus and each one carrying its own worked solution. The three papers use 450 of them; the rest are available through the chapter builder.
Because the bank was assembled in bulk, it was checked in bulk before publication rather than taken on trust. Every answer key was cross-checked against the arithmetic in its own worked solution — if the solution works out to 6250 microjoules, the key has to point at the option reading 6250 microjoules. Of the 623 questions, 547 could be checked that way and all 547 agreed. The remaining 76 are theory questions with no arithmetic to check against, such as naming the majority carrier in an n-type semiconductor. Every question was also checked for four distinct options, an answer index inside range, and a present solution, and 152 questions that repeated an earlier one word for word were removed. No question appears twice within a paper, and no question appears in more than one of the three papers.
This is honest about its limits. Automated cross-checking catches a mis-keyed answer; it does not catch a question that is poorly worded or a distractor that is arguably also correct. If you hit one, tell us on the contact page and we will fix or remove it. Our editorial policy explains how we handle corrections.
Getting real value out of three hours
A full-length paper costs you an afternoon and you only have three of them here. Sitting them back to back and glancing at the totals is the easiest way to waste all three.
- Sit them a week apart, not on consecutive days. The value is in the repair work between papers, not in the papers themselves. Two papers with a week of focused revision between them will move your score further than three in three days.
- Sit the whole thing in one go. Three unbroken hours, phone away, no pausing to look something up. A paper attempted in twenty-minute fragments tells you what you know but nothing about whether you can hold concentration for the length of the real exam, which is a substantial part of what the exam measures.
- Decide your attempt order before the clock starts. The common failure is opening Physics, hitting a mechanics question that will not resolve, and losing twenty minutes before touching another subject. A first pass through all three sections taking everything you can do inside ninety seconds, then a second pass on the rest, beats working straight through.
- Protect Mathematics. At two marks a question, the Maths section is 100 of the 200 marks. Whatever your order, do not let it be the section you reach with fifteen minutes left.
- Spend the last five minutes filling blanks. Mark an option against everything still empty. With no negative marking this is free, and it is routinely worth several marks.
Reading the score report
After you submit you get the total out of 200, a subject-by-subject breakdown, your accuracy on the questions you actually attempted, and every question listed with your answer, the correct answer and the worked solution. Two numbers deserve more attention than the total.
- Accuracy on attempted questions. High accuracy with a low total does not mean you are weak — it means you are slow or too cautious, and the fix is attempt volume, not more revision.
- Your weakest section’s percentage. One collapsed section pulls the total down further than three mediocre ones. Repair the worst first, because that is where the cheapest marks are.
When you review, sort every lost mark into one of four causes: you did not know the concept, you knew it and slipped on the arithmetic, you misread the question, or you ran out of time. Only the first sends you back to the textbook. The other three are practice problems, and a timed full-length paper is the only place you will reliably find them.
Once you know which chapters cost you marks, repair them with focused practice rather than another full paper. The chapter-wise PCM mock tests let you build a short timed test on a single chapter — all 623 questions from this bank are available there too, merged into their chapters alongside everything else in the builder. When you want a paper in the printed format with diagrams and circuits reproduced exactly as they were set, the full papers with solutions section has eight more.