Syllabus & Weightage

IPMAT Indore publishes no official syllabus — the institute names the sections, not the chapters. What is on this page is the syllabus reconstructed from the papers themselves: every question from 2019 to 2026 read and tagged to a chapter, so the list is what has actually been asked rather than what a brochure guesses.

Five groups across 45 chapters. Arithmetic (time-speed-distance, ratio and proportion, percentages, averages, interest, time and work, profit and loss, mixtures); Algebra (progressions, quadratic and linear equations, functions, inequalities, modulus, polynomials); Number System (remainders, divisibility, HCF and LCM, unit digit, integral solutions); Geometry (triangles, circles, trigonometry, coordinate geometry, mensuration); and Modern Math (logarithms, permutation and combination, probability, set theory, matrices and determinants, binomial theorem). The board above ranks all of them by how many questions each has actually produced.

Three groups. Verbal Ability — reading comprehension, parajumbles, sentence completion, sentence correction, paracompletion, incorrect word and conversation analysis. Grammar — parts of speech, tenses, active and passive, direct and indirect, punctuation and spelling. Vocabulary — synonyms, antonyms, idioms, phrases and word definitions. Reading comprehension is the single largest chapter in the whole paper, which is why crackin publishes a fresh RC passage every day.

Across 670 questions from 2019–2026, Verbal Ability accounts for 325, Quantitative Ability for 295 and Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation for 50. VARC is the largest section by question count, but QA is usually where the sectional cutoff is decided.

The weightage board on this page ranks every chapter by the number of questions it has actually produced, and the year-by-year heatmap below it shows each chapter across all eight papers — so you can tell a topic that is asked every single year from one that appeared twice and never came back. Sixteen quant chapters account for about 70% of the section; clear those before touching the long tail.

Start by sitting one full past paper cold. It costs two hours and tells you your real starting point per section, which no amount of reading about the exam will. Then work the weightage board above from the top down — the heaviest chapters first — using topic-wise tests for volume, and keep one daily RC and one daily LRDI set running throughout so those two never go cold. Sit a full mock every week or two once the heavy chapters are covered. Six focused months is comfortable; three is workable if the daily habit holds.

Cutoffs move every year with paper difficulty and the size of the applicant pool, so a raw mark from an old year is a poor target. Aim at a percentile instead: sit crackin mocks under real timing and track the band they report, and treat sectional strength as seriously as the total — a strong overall score built on one weak section is the common way to miss out.

The sections overlap but the papers do not. JIPMAT runs 100 questions in 150 minutes with no sectional timing, IPMAT Rohtak runs 120 in 120 with an LRDI section of its own, and IPMAT Indore runs 90 in three 40-minute blocks. Each exam has its own topic board on crackin for that reason.