MAT does not disqualify any candidate. It is upto the score requirement of the Management Institute to which you apply.

MAT score acceptability is through out the year. However, the February, December, May MAT exams are the best as the most good B-schools are open with their admission process and accept MAT exam scores.

AIMA first converts raw score into composite score and calculates the percentile. The GK section score is not taken into account for composite and percentile score calculation.

Yes, being a national level MBA entrance exam, more than 400 MBA/PGDM colleges in India accept MAT score for admission.

A good composite MAT score is 650 to 800. At this score you may get 80 to 100 percentile and can get admission in top management institute.

Yes, MAT scoring pattern is +1 mark for right answer and - 0.25 mark for wrong answer.

Both are good MBA entrance exams conducted at National Level. There are some MBA colleges who do not accept MAT but accept CMAT and vice versa.

There are 600 score accepting colleges notified by AIMA including 300 MBA colleges in Maharashtra which accept MAT score for admission to All India category candidates.

You should download your MAT Admit Card on its respective release date from AIMA MAT website.

There are 5 sections in MAT and for each section it is better to get the best book for example Verbal Ability, RC, Quant, DI, LR the books by Arun Sharma are very good.