MAT is the gateway to the cream of management institutes in India, especially the IIMs.
MAT, or the Management Admission Test, is an aptitude test; it is the most popular test among prospective management students. It is important to clear MAT as these entrance exams are accepted by the best institutes. The CAT, which is one of the world's most demanding entrance examinations for any graduate institute opens the doors of renowned IIMs for MBA students.
MAT test, such as common admission test, is used as a criteria to shortlist applicants for admissions to the six IIMs. The MBA institutes that conduct such assiduous entrance exams are: IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, and IIM Kozhikode. Common Admission Test is one of the largest MBA entrance exams conducted in India. Annually. The common admission test score is also accepted by more than 75 non-IIM institutes across India.
Eligibility for the postgraduate programmes in management at all IIMs are that the candidate must appear for management entrance exams. A prospect student must have at least a three-year bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognized university with 50% marks. Indian Institute of Management
(IIMs), the premier business-schools of the country conducts this management entrance test for selecting potential students for the next round of admission process. Entrance exams comprises of a personal interview and a group discussion for MBA and other Fellowship programmes. Those appearing in the final year examination of graduation are also eligible to appear in Management Aptitude Test. Some People feel that Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is more of a rejection procedure than a selection process. MAT Exam covers questions in five broad areas such as verbal ability and reasoning, reading comprehension, quantitative skills, data interpretation and logical reasoning. It rejects those who fail to make their minds work at intense and non stop speed for two and a half hours.
The number of questions asked in
management entrance test vary every year and a typical MAT question paper can have anywhere between 75 and 150 questions. Common Admission Test evaluates the candidate's presence of mind and his ability to perform under pressure. Announcement of the procedure for appearing in the Common Admission Test is made in leading newspapers in August every year for admission to the programme beginning in the second half of June of the following year. The test will be conducted during November. MAT 2007 Notification for admission to 2008 session has been announced.
Usually, MAT tests three of your abilities:- Problem Solving, Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension. The MAT examination demands competency across all sections of the paper. So, the number of sections in the test don't really matter; what matters is whether you are competitive and have answered questions in all the sections.
All the questions are of multiple choice nature with four to five alternate answer choices and the candidate has to choose the best answer for each of the questions and mark it on a special Optical Reader answer sheet. Differential marks are allotted to the questions. The test comprises 150 to 200 objective type questions and is usually divided into three to four sections. The number of questions in the test has been coming down steadily, from nearly 200 in the 1990s to 90 in 2005 and just 75 in 2006.
To score better you can adopt a strategy that could be applied in selecting the easiest questions. Don't waste time on questions which are lengthy. One misconception is that you need to solve the whole
MAT question Papers - not at all. If you can solve 38 to 40 per cent of the questions, without any errors, you will be able to get through.
