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MAT 2019
? Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is an important
national level MBA entrance exam which is
conducted by AIMA. More than 300 MBA colleges
accept MAT exam score for admission to their MBA
programmes.? ? AIMA conducts MAT exam four times
a year in the months of February, May, September
and December. MAT full form is Management
Aptitude Test and the exam score is valid for
MBA/PGDM admission across the country.?? ?
Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is a standardised
test being administered since 1988 to facilitate
MBA colleges to screen candidates for admission
to MBA, PGDM and allied programmes. Govt. of
India, Ministry of HRD approved MAT as a national
level test in 2003. Any B-School - national or
international - can consider MAT Score as
the admission criteria based on its Score Cards
issued to the candidates.?
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Modes of MAT Exam
? There are two modes of MAT exam. It is held as
paper based test as well as computer based test
in the same month. A candidate can choose to
appear either in paper based test or both paper
based and computer based test.?
? Application Exam Fee
? MAT application and exam fee for one exam is
Rs.1550/- and for two exams in the same month is
Rs.2650/-. The MAT fee should be paid online.
? Next Exam dates
? The MAT September 2019 Paper Based test date
is September 1 and Computer based test date is
September 14, 2019. Last date to apply for paper
based exam is August 25 and for computer based
test is September 8, 2019. The registration
application process is completely online.
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Score Validity
? The score of MAT September exam will
be accepted by the MBA colleges for
admission MBA/PGDM courses starting in 2020. The
best part of appearing in each MAT exam is that
you can improve your score after every 3
months. Each exam score is valid for 1 year. The
best exam score would be considered to get the
merit position during admission process of the
B- school. The list of Colleges accepting MAT
score is published by AIMA for each exam
separately.?
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you are given the facility to choose and apply
upto 5 Management Institutes accepting?MAT exam
scores for MBA admission without paying
any?additional fee. The choices can be filled up
in the space given in the MAT application.The
biggest advantage of taking MAT exam is that
cation form
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How to Apply for MAT Exam?
? The application to appear in MAT exam should be
submitted online only. A candidate with
graduation in any discipline with 50 marks (45
for SC/ST category) can apply to appear in MAT
exam. A student in final year of bachelors
degree can also apply and appear in the exam.
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Filling the MAT Application form is a five step
process and can be completed in a few minutes at
official AIMA MAT website. It involves Login
Creation for registration Filling the MAT
Application Form Uploading photo signature on
application form Making Payment of application
fee online. The last and most important thing is
to view the summary of application details. In
case of any mistake, please correct it
immediately.
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An important thing to note is that the applicant
should cross check the eligibility requirement of
the MBA college to which he/she wants to apply as
only MAT eligibility will not be sufficient for
admission.??
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MAT Exam Pattern
? Management Aptitude Test is an easy exam. It is
divided into five sections but the last section
is not counted for percentile calculation. The
exam is held in paper based pattern as well as
computer based pattern on different dates in the
same month with easy difficulty level. The
details of the exam are
? MAT test paper has a time duration of 2½ hours
from 10AM to 12.30PM. ? There are 200 objective
type questions in MCQs form in the question
paper? ? Question difficulty level is easy to
moderate
? The exam is divided in 5 sections with 40
questions in each section ? Each correct answer
is awarded 1 Mark
? Each wrong answer is penalized with negative
marking of -0.25 mark
? MAT exam sections are Language Comprehension,
Mathematical skills, Data Analysis and
Sufficiency, Intelligence and Critical Reasoning,
Indian and Global Environment.
? Merit Score in the exam is calculated on the
basis of 4 sections only and the score of Indian
Global Environment is separately shown but is
not taken into account to calculate the merit or
percentile in the score card.
? The score card displays scaled score out of 800
Marks and not out of 160 or
200 raw scores
? On the score card along with the sectional and
overall scaled scores, the
sectional and overall?percentile is also
displayed.
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How to Prepare for MAT?
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? One of the important points which differentiate
MAT exam preparation from other exams is the
separate section with 40 questions in MAT on
Data Analysis and Data Sufficiency (DADS) which
is slightly different from Data Interpretation in
other exams. The DADS Preparation for MAT exam
and the strategy to prepare for this important
section is to be properly planned and followed to
score high.?
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The exam preparation strategy needs more focus on
four core sections keeping the Indian Global
Environment section at second place. It requires
your focus on preparing for the most important
following 4 sections with 160 questions. These
are Language Comprehension Data Analysis Data
Sufficiency Intelligence Critical Reasoning
and Mathematical skills.?
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MAT cut offs for Admission?
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The cut offs in MBA admission are not very high
although the MAT question paper and?scoring
pattern?award liberal marks to exam takers. The
MAT colleges cut offs especially among top 20 MAT
colleges like BIMTECH, IESMCRC, SDMIMD,
NDIM, Jaipuria, FIIB, FLAME among others are
slightly higher as compared to other MBA colleges
accepting MAT scores since the merit position in
top 20 colleges is based on little higher cut
offs.?
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? MAT Result is published in the last week in the
month of MAT exam. The MAT score card is made
available for download on AIMA official Website
and no score card is sent by post or E-mail.??
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? AIMA releases a list of MBA colleges accepting
MAT score for each MAT exam on its official
website. There is variation in number of MBA
colleges accepting MAT exam score for each of the
four MAT exams. Some of the best MBA colleges
accepting MAT exam score are BIMTECH Greater
Noida (Specialized Programmes) XIME Bangalore
Xavier Business School (XBS) Kolkata Jaipuria
Institute of Management, Lucknow, Noida
KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar IPE
Hyderabad SDMIMD, Mysore IESMCRC, Mumbai SIES
College of Management Studies, Navi Mumbai JIMS
Rohini, Delhi IBA Bangalore VJIM, Hyderabad
among others
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