How to prepare for MAT exams?

After clearing MAT exam with satisfactory or good score will lead you to take admissions in universities and B-school considering your MAT result.
The exams are generally conducted four times in a year that is Feb, May, September and December.

Notifications like availability of online exam forms, examination dates and much more are announced by the AIMA in the MAT bulletin, as well as in several regional and national newspapers.
 
A candidate must prepare minimum 6 months for the exams to clear the exam with good score. Just like banking exams you can take coaching for this exam also.

What is MAT Exam?

It is a unit of the All India Management Association (AIMA) responsible to conduct Management Aptitude Test commonly known as MAT exam throughout the year. It is the state level test, and the results of this exam are considered by several reputed Business Schools across India for management courses.

Something you should know about AIMA

The apex body formed in league with all the local management Associations is AIMA; it has come in existence in support from the industry and the Indian Government. The very purpose of this body is to develop and facilitate management as a profession in the nation.
    
Career Options

MBA courses offered by several reputed B-schools after clearing MAT help scholars to get lucrative management-level job. Several B-schools organize campus interviews where the candidate gets chance to directly interact with different organizations.

Examination Pattern

MAT examination is based on following pattern:

Subjects to be covered are as follows:
•    Language Comprehension
•    Mathematical Skills
•    Data Analysis and Sufficiency
•    Intelligence and Critical Reasoning

There are 200 questions to be solved divided as 40 for each subject, and the time for completion is 150 minutes.

How to Crack MAT exam:

Here are some helpful tips to be considered important in order to clear MAT exam with good score. This will give you a brief idea of test strategy:

•    Strategize your time: Prepare next day study schedule one day before you go to bed, allot time to each and every subject.
•    Solve unsolved sample question papers of last year: with the help of sample question papers you will easily get an exact idea about the type of question paper you have to solve in your MAT exam. Practice unsolved as much as possible. This will help you learn time management of the complete question paper. Apply conventional methods to solve the sample paper  
•    Improve your general awareness: Read newspapers and get access through unpaid current affairs forum online to improvise your general awareness.
•    Concentrate on your speed and accuracy: First of all clear your basics, the solve un-solved question papers and then try to complete each and every section of the question paper separately and examine your performance as per the time taken by you to solve those sections.
•    Be Confident: ones you have done the above stated thinks just be confident, don’t be nervous and spoil your performance in exam, stay calm and focused.

If you are holding engineering and cleared engineering exams then this test won’t be difficult for you.

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