Hello,

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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Hello Aspirant,

Hope you are doing well. The scores of Management Aptitude Test (MAT) will be valid for one year. So,if you take up MAT in 2022 it will be valid until next year, 2023. The exam is conducted four times a year.

All the best!

Hello,

As long as you fulfill the eligibility criteria, have cleared all the backlogs, have good decent entrance test scores, there are various parameter which becomes defining factor in admission of MBA such as weightage given to academic scores/experience if any etc, WAT and GD-PI, you're definitely likely to ask abouy your backlogs, and you have to be honest about the same, also just be confident about yourself, the fact that you have good enough scores should act as a boost, eventually your admission isn't resticted to your backlogs, as I said there are various paramaters which become a defining factor in the admission process, some of the top colleges accepting MAT scores are SPJIMR, Mumbai/Great Lakes Institute of Management/BIMTECH/LBSIM/Goa Institute of Management/TAPMI/Christ University, Bangalore, VIT Business School, Vellore/ AIMS Institutes, Bangalore/NIT Warangal to name a few, you can check out our page at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/what-good-score-percentile-in-mat-exam to know more details regarding this.

Hey there!

You can find previous years MAT question paper and solutions by clicking on the link given below

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

What you need is to do only login using your email and click on free download, and you will get the question paper with solution on your email.

and I hope this will help you in boosting your performance in MAT preparation and will give you a brief idea of questions asked in exam.

Thank you!

Hello,

The officials have not yet released the schedule for the MAT September attempt. Keep an eye on the official website or the link below for the latest information. The AIMA MAT exam for the May session was conducted in paper-based and computer-based mode in two phases on May 15 and May 28, 2022 respectively .MAT exam is conducted multiple times in a year The score of latest attempt is taken into consideration.

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/mat-important-dates

Hello,

Consider the previous year cut off you have chances of getting shortlisted for the following institutes for the next selection process based on your score in MAT

• SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai

• Christ Institute of Management, Pune

• Alliance School of Business, Bangalore (slight chances)
• Amity Business School, Noida (slight chances)

Cut off is subjected to change it may increase or decrease depending on the total number of candidates applied, difficulty level of examination and total number of seats available etc. To check the cut off click use the link given below https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/mat-cutoff

Each college has different cut off. The selection process may vary from one institute to another.