MAT-PBT Management Aptitude Test
Management · PG · All India
Overview
Eligibility
MAT is conducted by the All India Management Association and is accepted by several hundred management institutes.
- Degree: a bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognised university.
- Final-year students: eligible.
- Attempts: MAT runs four cycles a year, and a candidate may sit as many as they wish. Institutes generally consider the best score.
MAT is offered in more than one mode — a paper-based test, a computer-based test at a centre, and a remote-proctored internet-based test. The syllabus and the marking are the same in each; only the delivery differs.
Exam Pattern
Syllabus
Language Comprehension
20%Reading Comprehension (RC), Vocabulary, Grammar, Para-jumbles
Intelligence & Critical Reasoning
20%Series, Puzzles, Coding-Decoding, Blood Relations, Syllogisms
Mathematical Skills
20%Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Number System, Probability
Data Analysis & Sufficiency
20%Charts/Tables, Caselets, Data Sufficiency
Economic & Business Environment
20%Current Affairs, Business & Economy, Static GK
How to Apply
The application is an online form on the AIMA MAT website. Everything below is done in one sitting or saved and returned to; nothing is done on paper.
Register
Create an account on the AIMA MAT website with an email address and mobile number you will still have months from now -- every notice, the admit card and the result reach you there. A registration number is issued; keep it.
Fill the form
Personal details, academic record from class 10 onwards, category, and work experience where it applies. The academic figures must match your marksheets exactly, because they are verified later against the originals.
Choose test cities
MAT is offered as a paper-based test, a computer-based test at a centre, and a remote-proctored internet-based test. Choose the mode first, then the centre where one applies. The syllabus and marking are identical across modes.
Upload photograph and signature
Both have to meet the format, size and background stated in the notification. A rejected upload is the most common reason a form is left incomplete past the deadline.
Pay the fee
Online, through the official portal only. The amount is set afresh in each year’s notification and is lower for SC, ST and PwD candidates. Keep the payment receipt.
Submit, then check
Print the completed form. A correction window usually opens afterwards -- it is limited, and it rarely covers every field, so it is a repair, not a second chance.
Apply only through the official portal. No agent can register you, and nobody can change a score once it is declared.
Important Dates
Selection Process
The paper has five sections, and one of them does not count towards the score used for shortlisting.
- Language Comprehension, Intelligence and Critical Reasoning, Data Analysis and Sufficiency, and Mathematical Skills make up the composite score.
- The Indian and Global Environment section is scored separately and is excluded from the composite that institutes shortlist on — worth knowing before spending preparation time on it.
- There is negative marking across the paper.
- AIMA reports a percentile. Each institute applies its own cut-off and runs its own group discussion and interview.
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