MAT 2018: Registration, Exam Dates, Pattern, Fees, Syllabus

 

Management Aptitude Test or MAT is a national-level management entrance examination used as an eligibility criterion by a large number of management institutes in India for MBA admissions. It is being administered since 1988 giving aspirants access to more than 600 B-schools across India. The test is conducted by AIMA (All India Management Association) four times in a calendar year – February, May, September, and December.

 

Any B-School national or international Candidate 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 to over 600 B-Schools across India.

 

About MAT 2018 

Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is a standardized test being administered since 1988 to facilitate Business Schools (B-Schools) to screen candidates for admission to MBA and allied program

Govt. of India, Ministry of 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 to over 600 B-Schools across India

 

 

MAT 2018 Important Dates

Events	Exam Dates (Tentative)
Application Window Opens	2ndweek of December 2017
Application Window Closes	26th January 2018
Last date of Online Choice Filling	January 2018
Issuance of Admit Cards	27th January 2018
Date of MAT 2018 Exam	PBT: 4th February 2018 CBT: 10th February 2018
MAT 2018 Results	4thweek of February 2018

 

 

How To Apply:

• The candidates who are going to apply in MAT 2018 are required to apply online.
• MAT 2018 Registration has been started from 2nd week of December 2017.  The last date for registration is the 4th week of January 2018
• The online application form will be available on AIMA website. Candidates can obtain the OMR application form along with MAT bulletin from AIMA, New Delhi by paying the requisite registration fee.
• Check your eligibility by referring the eligibility document available on the official website of MAT 2018. The application should be completed in all respects including the filling of all necessary details and uploading of signature & photograph.

 

 

Application Fee

The applicants of all categories need to pay Rs. 1,200 /- as application form fee through Internet Banking / Credit Card / Debit Card / Demand Draft.

The candidates paying the application form fee through Demand Draft must send the print of the filled application form along with Demand Draft to AIMA, New Delhi.

 

 

MAT 2018 Exam Pattern

MAT 2018 (all sessions) shall be 2.5 hours long tests. Candidates can either choose computer-based test (CBT) or Pen/Paper test (PBT) as a mode of answering.

The test will comprise of total 200 questions each carrying 1 mark. The various sections in MAT 2018 are as follows:

 

Section	Number of Questions	Time (in min)
Mathematical Skills	40	40
Data Analysis and Sufficiency	40	35
Language Comprehension	40	30
Intelligence and Critical Reasoning	40	30
Indian and Global Environment	40	15
Total	200	150

 

Negative marking will be of 1/4 mark.

 

 

MAT 2018 Syllabus

 

Mathematical Skills

• Percentage
• Simple-Compound Interest
• P&C Probability
• Time & Work
• Geometry
• Number System
• Profit & loss
• Trigonometry
• Allegation & Mixture
• Time Speed & Distance
• Height & Distance
• Partnerships
• Clocks- Calendars
• Average
• HCF, LCM
• Ratio-Proportion

 

Language Comprehension

• Vocabulary Based
• Reading Comprehension
• Sentence Rearrangement
• Sentence Correction & Grammar
• Fill in the blanks
• Critical Reasoning
• Para Jumbles
• Finding Errors
• Verbal Analogies
• Sentence Completion

 

Data Analysis & Sufficiency

• Data Sufficiency
• Data Caselette
• Line Graph
• Data Table
• Multiple Graph
• Pie Chart
• Data Comparison
• Puzzles
• Bar Charts

 

Intelligence & Critical Reasoning

• Series
• Analogies
• Analytical Reasoning
• Calendar
• Verbal Reasoning
• Blood Relation
• Direction Sense
• Coding-Decoding

 

 

Exam Centres:

 

State/ UT name	Test city name	Test mode
Andhra Pradesh	Vijayawada	Only paper based
	Visakhapatnam	Only paper based
Assam	Guwahati	Only paper based
	Jorhat	Only paper based
	Silchar	Only paper based
Bihar	Patna	Only paper based
	Bhagalpur	Only paper based
Chandigarh	Chandigarh	Paper and computer-based
Chhattisgarh	Bilaspur	Only paper based
	Raipur	Only paper based
Delhi	Delhi(NCR)	Paper and computer-based
Gujarat	Ahmedabad	Paper and computer-based
Haryana	Ambala	Only paper based
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Only paper based
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu	Only paper based
	Srinagar	Only paper based
Jharkhand	Jamshedpur	Only paper based
	Ranchi	Only paper based
Karnataka	Belagavi	Only paper based
	Mangaluru	Only paper based
Kerala	Ernakulam	Paper and computer-based
	Kottayam	Only paper based
	Kozhikode	Only paper based
	Palakkad	Only paper based
	Thiruvananthapuram	Only paper based
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Paper and computer-based
	Indore	Only paper based
	Gwalior	Only paper based
	Jabalpur	Only paper based
Maharashtra	Mumbai	Paper and computer-based
	Nagpur	Only paper based
	Pune	Only paper based
Manipur	Imphal	Only paper based
Mizoram	Aizwal	Only paper based
Nagaland	Dimapur	Only paper based
Orissa	Bhubaneswar	Only paper based
	Rourkela	Only paper based
	Sambalpur	Only paper based
Punjab	Ludhiana	Only paper based
Rajasthan	Jaipur	Paper and computer-based
	Udaipur	Only paper based
Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Paper and computer-based
	Coimbatore	Only paper based
	Madurai	Only paper based
Telangana	Hyderabad	Paper and computer-based
Uttar Pradesh	Agra	Only paper based
	Allahabad	Only paper based
	Bareilly	Only paper based
	Ghaziabad	Only paper based
	Kanpur	Only paper based
	Lucknow	Paper and computer-based
	Meerut	Only paper based
	Varanasi	Only paper based
Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Only paper based
	Haridwar	Only paper based
	Haldwani	Only paper based
	Srinagar (Garhwal)	Only paper based
West Bengal	Durgapur	Only paper based
	Kolkata	Paper and computer-based
	Siliguri	Only paper based

 

 

How to Prepare MAT 2018 Exam

• The best source is to refer the past question papers and practice those model papers. As When we refer the previous question papers then we automatically know the important topics and type of the questions.
• Make small daily targets, weekly targets and Revise the subject or topic as many times as possible until you are perfect on that.
• Mark the questions that we feel important or tough. Have to improve faith in yourself. Motivation and planning in the study are mandatory. For good motivation visit coaching centers and motivate yourself.

 

Contact Address

All India Management Association

Management House
14, Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, India
Telephone: 011-47673037/47673026/24638896
Fax: 011- 24626689
E-mail: mat@aima.in

 

 

Important Links

Action	Link
AIMA Official Website	//www.aima.in/.
Test Centers	//apps.aima.in/matfeb18/TestCentreFeb18.xls
List of Participating Institutes	//apps.aima.in/matfeb18/SearchMIList.aspx
MAT 2018 (Feb Session) Application form	//apps.aima.in/matfeb18/Registration.aspx
Application login	//apps.aima.in/matfeb18/LoginForm.aspx