MAT Exam

What is MAT Exam?

Management Aptitude Test (MAT)  is a National Entrance Test, conducted by All India Management Association (AIMA), and a standardised test being administered since 1988 to faciliate Business School (B-School) to screen candidates for admission to MBA and Allied Programmes. The Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) approved MAT as a national level test in 2003.

Any B-School - National or International - can consider MAT Score as an admission input based on the Score Cards issued to the candidates. The largest test of its kind in the nation, MAT Will continue to be your passport over 600 B-Schools across India.

MAT is an objective test, designed to measure the candidate's general aptitudes in language comprehension, mathematical skills, data analysis and sufficiency, intelligence and critical reasoning, Indian and global environment.

B-School, national and international management colleges can consider MAT Score as an admission input based on the scorecards issued to the candidates. MAT will continue to be your passport to over 600+ B-Schools across India.

Center for Management Services (CMS) is the specialised division of AIMA undertaking testing and other management services. Since 1988, these testing services have been in operation under the trademark All India Management Aptitude Testing Services (AIMATS).

AIMATS has the unique distinction of being the first to be awarded ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification for the range of services under its scope.

AICTE in its mission to reduce the burden of students in attending to multiple examinations has launched the national level entrance exams for facilitating institutions to select suitable students for admission in all management programs approved by AICTE.

MAT is usually conducted four times in a year. The exams will be generally scheduled in the month of February, May, September, and December. MAT is conducted in all major cities across the country and sometimes also in leading cities abroad.   

Mode of Test (How to take the test)

Candidates can take MAT as

(i) Remote Proctored Internet Based Test (IBT) or

(ii) Double Remote Proctored Internet Based Test (IBT) or

(iii) Paper Based Test (PBT) or

(iv) Paper Based Test and Remote Proctored Internet Based Test (PBT+IBT) or

(v) Computer Based Test (CBT) or

(vi) Computer Based Test and Remote Proctored Internet Based Test (CBT+IBT) or

(vii) Paper Based Test and Computer Based Test (PBT+CBT) or

(viii) Double Computer Based Test (CBT+CBT)

MODE OF TEST (How to Take the test)

NOTE :

Candidate can opt for an additional mode of test (e.g.,IBT / IBT, PBT / CBT,  IBT+PBT, IBT+CBT, CBT+CBT) tests by paying an extra fees of Rs. 1125/- in addition to Rs. 1850/-.

Candidates opting for additional test will have the benefit of selecting additional 2 Management Institutes for sending their scores in addition to existing option of selecting 5 Management Institutes i.e. they can select 7 Management Institutes in total.

MAT Dec 2022 Application Fee

Register Online at website link : mat.aima.in/Dec22/ with your Credit / Debit Card (ATM Card), Net Banking, UPI and Paytm Wallet. The fee details are given below :-

MAT 2022 Exam Pattern

The test is a 2 hours 30 minutes Computer-Based and Paper-Based Test which is conducted in a single session to evaluate the candidate's ability across various segments like Quantitative Technique, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension and General Awareness.

A candidate has to follow certain rules and regulations before applying for this entrance exam. To know more about this click on the URL link, i.e. https://www.careerindia.com/entrance-exam/mat-exam-pattern-e40.html

MAT Exam Centres

The candidates have to choose up to three cities based on their preference for choosing the exam centres of MAT. The centre will be allowed based on the availability.

Test Cities MAT Dec 2022

PAPER BASED TEST (PBT)

The MAT 2022 exam pattern will have some changes in the question paper almost every year. All the aspirants have to know more about the exam pattern where a candidate will get some idea to tackle this exam. Click on this URL, i.e. https://www.careerindia.com/entrance-exam/mat-exam-pattern-e40.html to know more about the detailed exam pattern.

Merits of Management Aptitude Test (MAT)

• ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified by Intertek with accreditation to UKAS and Quality Council of India
• Entrance test for recognized programmes
• Time-tested over a decade
• Validated through independent studies
• Availed by lakhs of students
• Accepted by hundreds of Institutes and University Departments
• Employing the latest technology in evaluation and result processing
• Individual scorecard with candidate's photograph
• Test Centres located all over the country

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (MAT)

MAT Score is acceptable even to certain other institutes for considering admission of candidates for Post Graduate Degree / Diploma Programmes, besides the above Institutes, subject the specific cut-off marks and other admissions parameters.