Dear Babu, IPMAT is an entrance examination conducted for admission into 5 year Integrated Program in Management. The exam will be conducted tentatively in the month of May. This is an online exam conducted for 2 hours. There will be 100 questions asked in the areas of Quantitative Ability and Verbal Ability. While Quantitative ability has Multiple choice Questions and Short Answer Questions, Verbal Ability has Multiple choice Questions. Multiple choice version in Quantitative Ability has 40 questions while Verbal Ability has 40 questions. The remaining 20 questions are from Short Answer Questions of Quantitative Ability. Every correct answer gets you 4 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark due to negative marking. However, there is no negayive marking for Short Answer Questions of Quantitative Ability. There is no set syllabus designed and released for IPMAT. However going by the previous trend, the tentative syllabus might be:

Under Quantitative Ability: Number System, Algebra, Set Theory, Data Intrepretation, Geometry, Mensuration, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Time, Speed, Distance, Time and Work.

Under Verbal Ability: Paragraph completion, Reading comprehension, Word jumble, Word Usage, Vocabulary and Analogy, Para jumble, Fill in the blanks and Grammar. 

To score better, try attemtping all the Short Answer Questions as there is no negative marking there. Keep practising previous model papers to have an idea of how the exam would be. 

Hello

The Integrated Program in Management Aptitude Test (IPMAT) is conducted by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore for admission to the five year integrated program in Management.
Integrated Program in Management Aptitude Test  is a national level exam which is conducted once a year.

If you want to appear for IPMAT exam, you should know the detailed information about the exam such as the eligibility criteria, exam pattern, important dates, etc.

IPMAT Eligibility Criteria
1. As per the eligiblity criteria, general and NC-OBC category candidates are required to have scored minimum 60 percent aggregate marks in Class 10/ SSC and Class 12/ HSC or equivalent examinations.
Relaxation in the qualifying marks is provided to candidates belonging to the SC/ST and PWD (DA) Category. Candidates belonging to SC/ST and PWD (DA) category are required to have scored minimum 55 percent aggregate marks in Class 10/ SSC and Class 12/ HSC or equivalent examinations.
2. Maximum age limit for general category candidates is 20 years of age as on July 31, 2019. Candidates belonging to SC/ST category should not be more than 22 years of age as on July 31, 2019.

IPMAT Exam Pattern
The exam will be conducted in Computer-based mode. A total of 100 questions will be asked in the exam. Broadly the questions are divided in two areas- Quantitative Ability (Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions) and Verbal Ability (Multiple Choice Questions). Also, it shoule be noted that the section in the exam are time bound.
Division of sections is as follows-
Quantitative Ability- MCQ: Time for this section will be 40 minutes and 40 questions will be asked from the section.
Verbal Ability: Time for this section will be 40 minutes and 40 questions will be asked from the section.
Quantitative Ability- SA: Time allotted for this section will be 40 minutes and 20 questions will be asked from the section.
According to the marking scheme, four marks will be awarded for every correct answer and for every incorrect answer there will be negative marking of one mark. There is no negative marking in the Quantitative Ability SA section.

Syllabus
IIM Indore does not release any official syllabus for the IPMAT exam. As per the previous year trends, questions in the exam are asked from the following topics-
QA Syllabus for IPMAT 2019
• Number System
• Algebra
• Set Theory
• Data Interpretation
• Geometry, Mensuration
• Percentage, Profit and Loss
• Time, Speed
• Distance, Time and Work

VA Syllabus for IPMAT 2019
• Paragraph Completion
• Reading Comprehension
• Word Jumble
• Word Usage
• Vocabulary and Analogy
• Para Jumble
• Fill in the Blanks and Grammar

Important Dates of the exam
Application forms will be released tentatively from 12 Mar, 2019 and the tentative exam date is 11 May, 2019.

Selection process
The selection process is a two step process. Candidates have to appear and qualify the IPM Aptitude test and on the basis of score in the aptitude test, candidates are shortlisted for the second stage of the admission process. Second stage of the process include Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI). Weightage given to the stages of admission process is as follows
Aptitude test score - 50 percent (Written test - Quantitative Ability section + Verbal Ability section)
Personal interview - 35 percent
Written ability test - 15 percent

Do let us know if you have any other query.
Good Luck!

Hello,The forms for ipmat will release on second week of March2019 and the last date for filling the form is third week of April 2019.

Hope you are satisfied with the answer.

Good luck for the exam

Hello Aditya,
See, no one exactly can tell you this as everyone would have different opinon about it. Insitutes like T.I.M.E, Career Launcher, Pearson, Careeranna and few others. But I would suggest look into first 3 names I mentioned and also you know T.I.M.E is one of the most prominent institute in India when it comes to providing education and support for exams like this. 

I hope this helps you.

All the best !!

Hello Anisha..

Thanks for contacting Careers360.

One of the best books to prepare for IPMAT is ‘Crack the IIM Indore IPM Entrance Exam’, published by Pearson and written by IIM Lucknow Alumnus Nishit Sinha.

Along with this, you should also practice last year papers by setting the same time limit as it's going to happen in the final exam this will help you to prepare a proper strategy to give your maximum in the paper and also you will be able to recognise your strength and weakness.

Feel free to ask if you have any more queries.

All the best!!

Hello Anisha...

Thanks for contacting Careers360..

You can get the solved previous papers in the link given below..Free download the book and study..

https://bschool.careers360.com/download/sample-papers/mat-previous-year-solved-paper#

All the best for your IPMAT!!

Hi aspirant

First of all try to understand the exam and its pattern ,its criteria and other aspects.All these details you can check by visiting the link given below:

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/ipmat

Following Ebooks will be helpful:

https://bschool.careers360.com/download/ebooks/all-about-ipmat?icn=exam-view&ici=exam-view_related-ebook-samplepaper

Other helpful Ebooks :        https://bschool.careers360.com/download/ebooks

The link for the sample paper:https://bschool.careers360.com/download/sample-papers/iim-indore-ipmat-2016-sample-paper

You can also buys materials from the market of Arihant publication .

Prepare ,revise and solve sample papers as much as possible.

All the best.