The MAT exam conducted on 2nd May, 2010 had 200 questions to be attempted in 150 minutes. These 200 questions were from five test areas with exactly 40 questions in each. There was no mention of negative marks in the paper.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS :
Similar to February MAT, Arithmetic was the most favoured area this time too. Nearly 50% of the questions were from Arithmetic. The questions were mostly on the easier side, but a little lengthy.

DATA ANALYSIS AND SUFFICIENCY :
The questions comprised mostly of standard Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency questions.

LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION :
The questions were equally distributed among Reading Comprehension and Verbal Ability. There were 5 passages in all with a total of 21 questions. The difficulty level was moderate.

INTELLIGENCE AND CRITICAL REASONING :
The questions were distributed among Logical and Critical Reasoning, but surprisingly there were no questions on Arrangement based reasoning.

INDIAN AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT :
The questions in this test area were, predominantly, from Current and Business GK. The level of difficulty of this section was medium