AIMA MAT to be held on May 3; over 400 B-schools to accept MAT scores

According to AIMA, Over 400 management institutes are participating in MAT this time. AIMA conducts MAT 4 times in a year in the months of February, May, September and December where lakhs of students avail of this test every year.
The objective of MAT is to assess the potential of a candidate to pursue a management programme. Towards that end, the paper tests the verbal ability, numerical ability and logical thinking of candidates. The exam will be held in over 90 cities including Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and others.

Some of the participating B-schools are Accurate Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida; BDS Institute of Management, Meerut; Dr Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management & Research, Kanpur; Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Jaipur; Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore and NSHM Business School, Kolkata.

The MAT test paper in based on multiple-choice answers and designed to evaluate a students general aptitudes on five areas: Language Comprehension, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis and Sufficiency, Intelligence and Critical Reasoning and awareness of Indian and Global Environment.

The duration of the test is typically 150 minutes. There are total 200 questions fielded in MAT exam, where each question has four options. Each question in MAT caries one marks and there will be negative marking for wrong answers.
The last date for the sale of the MAT bulletin was April 8, 2009 and the last date of submission of form is April 11, 2009.