How to Prepare for MBA Entrance Exams? - Section-Wise Tips, Strategy & Guide

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GMAT is graduate management admission test which is conducted by GMAC for admission of MBA in many countries, the eligibility criteria regarding this is as follows;

Candidates needs to be 18 years old or above,

Pass bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognized university, those in the final year or working professionals too are eligible to apply,

Should have a valid passport,

As the exam is conducted in English, hence proficiency in the same language is required as well,

Candidate can take maximum of five attempts in a year, and overall 8 attempts for lifetime, and there has to be a gap of 16 days prior to retaking the exam,

Colleges in India accepting GMAT scores are as follows;

• SPJIMR Mumbai
• IMT Ghaziabad
• IMI New Delhi
• Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB)
• Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai
• T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal
• K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai
• Goa Institute of Management (GIM) Goa
• Post Graduate Diploma in Management
• FORE School of Management, New Delhi
• Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi
• BIMTECH Greater Noida
• MICA Ahmedabad
• IFIM Business School, Bangalore
• SOIL-School of Business Design, Gurgaon

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SNAP is conducted for 60 minutes in MCQs format, each question consists of one mark, there is deduction of 0.25 marks for each incorrect attempt, the following sections are included in the entrance test:-

• General English
• Analytical & Logical Reasoning
• Quantitative, Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency

The colleges accepting scores of SNAP are listed below;

• Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development, Pune
• Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pimpri-Chinchwad
• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune,
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Bangalore
• Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Pune,
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Rangareddy,
• Symbiosis School of Banking and Finance, Pune
• LM Thapar School of Management, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dera Bassi
• Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences, Pune,
• Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Nashik,
• Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Management, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research Pune,
• Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication Pune,
• Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore,
• Symbiosis School of Sports Sciences, Lavale,
• Symbiosis Institute of Digital and Telecom Management, Lavale
• Shri Ram Murti Smarak International Business School, Lucknow
• Symbiosis School of Media and Communication
• Bangalore
• Symbiosis Institute of Business Management,, Nagpur
• Om Bio Science and Management College, Haridwar Roorkee

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CMAT is conducted for 180 minutes, and additional 30 minutes is allotted for optional section, there are total of five sections(one is optional) and each one consists of 25 questions for 100 marks as mentioned below-

• Quantitative techniques and data interpretation
• Logical reasoning
• General awareness
• Language comprehension
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (optional)

for each correct answer four marks are awarded and in case of each incorrect attempt one mark is deduced,

The selection process mainly consists of three rounds:-

Written Ability Test,

Group Discussion, and

Personal Interview

Some of the top colleges offering admission for MBA Programme through CMAT are mentioned below-

• JBIMS, Mumbai
• SIMSREE, Mumbai
• KJ Somaiya Institute of Management
• Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
• University of Pune, Department of Management Sciences
• Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi
• Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
• Goa Institute of Management
• Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
• Amity University, Noida
• Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida

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The list of colleges accepting scores of NMAT are as follows;

• SPJIMR, Mumbai
• School of Business Management SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
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• VIT Business School Vellore,
• IBS Business School Hyderabad,
• K J Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai
• ITM Business School Navi Mumbai
• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore
• GITAM Hyderabad Business School Hyderabad,
• GITAM Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam
• Alliance School of Business, Bangalore
• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies Mumbai,
• Amity Business School Noida,
• Goa Institute of Management Poriem,
• Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad
• ISBR Business School Bangalore
• Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies Hyderabad,
• Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University
• Centre for Management Studies, Jain University, Bangalore
• Bangalore, Karnataka
• Bennett University, Greater Noida
• Jindal Global Business School, Sonipat,
• IIHMR University, Jaipur
• Amity University, Mumbai
• Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida
• Galgotias University, Greater Noida
• BML Munjal University, Gurgaon
• Chitkara Business School, Patiala
• Woxsen University Hyderabad - Woxsen School of Business, Hyderabad,
• School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar
• Amity University, Noida
• School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun

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• As per the Government of India requirements, 15% of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates. 27% of seats are reserved for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the non - creamy layer (NC - OBC).

• IIM Ahmedabad - 85 percentile
• IIM Bangalore - 85 percentile
• IIM Calcutta - 85 percentile
• IIM Lucknow - 90 percentile
• IIM Indore - 90 percentile
• IIM Kozhikode - 85 percentile
• IIM Amritsar - 85 percentile
• IIM Nagpur - 85 percentile
• IIM Sambalpur - 93 percentile
• IIM Trichy - 93 percentile
• IIM Raipur - 93 percentile
• IIM Ranchi - 93 percentile
• IIM Kashipur - 94 percentile
• IIM Vizag - 80 percentile
• IIM Udaipur - 93 percentile
• IIM Bodhgaya - 93 percentile
• IIM Shillong - 75 percentile
• IIM Sirmaur - 93 percentile
• IIM Rohtak - 95 percentile
• IIM Nagpur - 85 percentile
• IIM Jammu - 93 percentile

Dear students,

No. We don't get any fees concessions by clearing these entrance exams. Although if you have scored extremely well both in your entrance exams as well in your undergraduate, then you might get a scholarships from the universities. You can also apply for other outer scholarships that are given to the students that have good scores and talent.

See since you are from arts background, and you also have a good academic record (barring your graduation percentage), so you can get a call for interview even a slightly lower percentile.

According to the previous trends, you can easily get into IIM Ahmedabad even at a percentile in the range of 92 to 95, which is a safe estimate for your admission in the OBC NCL category.

Hope I have answered your question. All the best!