MAT

Centre for Management Services (CMS) is the specialized division of AIMA undertaking testing and other management services. The testing services have been in operation since 1988 under the trademark All India Management Aptitude Testing Services (AIMATS) facilitating academia, industry and government to screen and select candidates for higher studies, recruitment, promotion etc. Hundreds of organizations and lakhs of candidates have availed these services. AIMATS has the unique distinction of being the first to be awarded with ISO 9001: 2000 Certification for the range of services under its scope. MAT has become popular with over hundreds of AICTE approved Institutions & University departments and over lakhs of MBA aspirants having availed AIMA’s testing services in the past six years and now MAT is approved as a National Entrance Test vide Government of India, Ministry of HRD letter no. F.17-20/2003-TS.I dated 23 November 2004.

1. ELIGIBILITY

Graduate in any discipline from a recognized university. Final year degree course students can also apply.

2. HOW TO APPLY

To obtain MAT Bulletin and Application Form by post, send a Demand Draft of Rs. 790/- to AIMA-CMS, drawn in favour of AIMA-CMS payable at New Delhi alongwith two self-addressed slips/adhesive stickers. Send your request to Director, All India Management Association, Management House, 14, Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110 003.

OR

Obtain MAT Bulletin and Application Form on cash payment of Rs 750/- at AIMA counter at Delhi (Tel:- 24653382), select Bank of Baroda (BoB) Branches, AIMA Nodal Centres and other outlets.

SALIENT ASPECTS OF MAT

ISO 9001:2000 certified by DNV with accreditation to RVA and Quality Council of India
Entrance test for recognized programmes.
Time tested over a decade.
Validated through independent studies
Availed by lakhs of students.
Accepted by hundreds of Institutes and University Departments.
Employing latest technology in evaluation and result processing.
Individual score card with candidate’s photograph.
Widespread network for sale of bulletins.
Test Centres located all over the country and abroad.
Lowest bulletin cost which includes registration and test fees.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Candidates should check the Roll No and Test Centre details for the test from AIMA website http://www.aima-ind.org/matcentre.asp, 7 days prior to the date of test.

Candidates may also view/download the MAT Score from AIMA website http://www.aima-ind.org after 3 weeks from the date of the test.

Candidates may clarify queries regarding MAT Score, if any, at e-mail : rgusain@aima-ind.org

MAT Score is acceptable even to certain other Institutes for considering admission of candidates for Post Graduate Degree / Diploma programmes, besides the above Institutes, subject to specific cut-off marks and other admission parameters.

XAT

For more than 50 years XLRI is conducting Admission Test on All India level to select the most appropriate students for management education. Our long experience and the expertise has helped us to extend this test to other Management Institutes. There are 42 other Management Institutes who are selecting students from XAT 2008. Please refer to XAT Associate Institutes. Applicants desirous of joining XLRI or any other institutions have to appear for XAT 2008. XAT Bulletin & XLRI Prospectus can be obtained from 112 Branches of State Bank of India (SBI) or the XAT Office, XLRI Jamshedpur, 831001. Click here to view SBI Branch address details.

XAT 2008 will be conducted in 31 cities

Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Berhampur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Dehradun, Goa, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Noida, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Rourkela, Trivandrum, Vadodara, Visakhapatnam.

CET Maharashtra

COMMON ENTRANCE TEST FOR ADMISSIONS TO FIRST YEAR OF
MBA/MMS/PGDBM/PGDBA for the Year 2008-09

Candidates seeking admission to AICTE approved MBA/MMS/PGDBM/PGDBA Courses are hereby informed that a Common Entrance Test (CET) will be conducted for the admission to these courses as per the schedule given below:

COMMON ENTRANCE TEST FOR ADMISSION TO FIRST YEAR OF
MBA/ MMS/ PGDBM /PGDBA COURSE FOR THE YEAR 2008-2009
Candidates seeking admission to AICTE approved full time MBA/MMS/PGDBM/PGDBA course are hereby informed that Common Entrance Test (CET) will be conducted as per the schedule given below:

CET Date of MAH-MBA/MMS-CET 2008 17th February 2008 (Sunday)


The detailed notification regarding availability of information brochure, filling up on-line CET Application form, eligibility criteria etc. will be published in leading newspapers and will also be available on the official web site www.dte.org.in/mba in the month of January 2008.
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(Prof. N. B. Pasalkar)
Director, Technical Education,
Maharashtra State , Mumbai.

Admission to first year of two year full time post graduate degree courses in Management namely Master of Business Administration (MBA) / Master of Management Studies (MMS) and Post Graduate Diploma Courses in Business Management (PGDBM)/Business Administration (PGDBA).

The institutes which qualify for the admission process as per these rules are:

• Approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi.

• Recognised by the Government of Maharashtra.

• Affiliated to any one of the ten Non Agricultural / Non Technological Universities in Maharashtra state.

Following are the types of Institutes in the Maharashtra state covered by these rules;

a) All Government Management Institutes

b) All University Departments of Management

c) All University Managed Management Institutes

d) All Unaided Management Institutes whose Association has given consent to participate in the CAP rounds conducted by the State Government.

The admission to the courses MBA/MMS is centralized and is covered under Centralized Admission Process (CAP) carried by the Competent Authority of the State of Maharashtra.

INSTITUTES

Government Institute: Sydenham Institute of Management Studies & Research and Entrepreneurship Education, Mumbai

University Departments: Amravati, Aurangabad, Jalgaon, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Solapur, Pune, Nanded and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

University Managed Institute (Only for Women Candidates): Jankidevi Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai.

SNAP

Symbiosis National Aptitude (SNAP) Test is a common written test for the admission processes of postgraduate institutes of Symbiosis International University [SIU] established under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956 vide notification No.F.9.12/2001 U.3 of the Govt. of India. Subsequently ten more Institutes of Symbiosis have been brought under the ambit of Symbiosis International University vide notification No.F.9.12/2006-U.3 (A). It is a mandatory written test for admission into any postgraduate programme offered by these institutes. However, it is only the first step. In addition, a candidate has to undergo the selection process of the desired institute to qualify for the admission to the postgraduate programmes of that institute. A student aspiring to do higher studies at SIU needs to do the following:

Stage-1: SNAP Test Register online at www.snaptest.org Follow the instructions for payment of Test fee of Rs. 800/- on this website. On closing of Registration, print “Admit Card” from the website. Paste candidate’s photograph on the Admit Card. Bring the Admit Card on which the candidates photograph is pasted and a Photo Identity to the Test Center. (Candidates should note that authenticated Admit Card is an important document without which no candidate can appear for Group Discussion and Personal Interview. Candidates shall preserve the Admit Card till the Group Discussion and Personal Interview is over. If the Admit card is lost, no duplicate Admit Card will be issued and the candidate will lose the chance to appear for Group Discussion and Personal Interview.) Appear for the Test.

Stage-2: Submit Application form to the desired SIU’s constituent institutes. Purchase a prospectus & application form as per a chosen institute’s instructions given on its website. The SNAP website allows a facility for online purchase of prospectus & application form for many of these institutes along with online payment of SNAP fee. Complete the application procedure of the desired institute. You can apply to more than one SIU’s constituent institutes.

Stage-3: Attend the call for further selection process of the chosen institutes. Each institute has its own weightages for arriving at a cutoff, depending on its focused field as mentioned in the prospectus of each constituent institute. For example, One Institute may have lower weightage for Quantitative Section while some other Institute may have a higher weightage for the same section. The institutes will announce a short list for attending further selection process. The individual institutes as per their schedules will announce Short List & Waiting Lists. For details of selection process and schedules please refer to the prospectus of respective institutes.

Important Mere scoring in the SNAP Test does not entitle any right to the candidate to be called for Group Discussion and Personal Interview. Those candidates who are above the cut-off point based on parameters mentioned in the prospectus will be eligible for group discussion and personal Interview. While adequate care is taken in ensuring that there are no mistakes in reading the answer sheet by the scanning machine, there is no provision of revaluation of the answer sheet of any candidate. The scores published by the Symbiosis Test Secretariat shall be final and shall not be subject to any appeal or revaluation. The SNAP Score card will be available on the website for a period of one month from the date of declaration of results i.e. up to February 7, 2008. Those candidates paying through cash or DD, should ensure that Axis Bank (formerly UTI Bank) Challan for cash payment, or Demand Drafts and Payment Advice Form for DD payment Should reach Symbiosis Test Secretariat by 30 th November 2007. Symbiosis Test Secretariat will not be held responsible for non-delivery or any delay on the part of Courier / Postal Services.

CAT Introduction

M.B.A, Master of Business Administration is a degree which will never go out of fashion. It is the most coveted profession.

Common Admission Test (CAT), is the common entrance exam that you have to take to get admission to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, and Kozhikode. Many other institutes like, MICA, Nirma Institute of Management, S.P. Jain Institute, also draw out their candidates based on the performance in CAT.

The exam itself consists of four parts which are Verbal Ability, Reading Comprehension, Problem Solving and Data Interpretation. All the questions are multiple choice and you should shade your choice of answer (only with a HB pencil) in the computer coded answer sheet. For every correct answer, one mark is awarded and for every wrong answer, 1/4th of a mark is deducted.

The exam is conducted once a year on the second Sunday of December. In order to sit for the exam, you must be a graduate or studying in the final year. The advertisements for the exam start appearing in the national dailies as early as August 23rd. The centre for the examination is allotted according to the preference of the candidate.

The most important factor is time in these exam, and there are no ranks as such. Out of the 185 questions, if you attempt 100, and out of the hundred if you get 90 correct, then your chances are better than a person who has attempted all the 185 but only cleared 160 questions. After the written exam, the candidates are ranked and then only the very best are called by the IIMs. The other institutes also start sending call letters. The candidate also has to buy the application forms of these other institutes and apply to them individually.

After the exam, the selected candidates have to undergo a group interview. This will be more like a stress interview where the candidates are posed with real problems, for which they have to discuss and arrive at an amicable solution. Often these group interviews, turn into mega shouting matches filled with chaos as everybody talks at the same time. Then comes the interview that is equally detailed in nature.

The forms for the exam can be bought from the State Bank of India & the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

CAT 2006 (Common Admission Test 2006, India)

The IIM's in India are:

• Indian Institute of Management, Bannerghatta High Rd, Bangalore-560076
  http://www.iimb.ernet.in

• Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad-380015
  http://www.iimahd.ernet.in

• Indian Institute of Management, REC Campus, Calicut-673601, Kerala
  http://www.iimk.ac.in

• Indian Institute of Management, Joka, Kolkata-700027
  http://www.iimcal.ac.in

• Indian Institute of Management, Sector I, Aliganj Extension, Lucknow-226022
  http://www.iiml.ac.in

• Indian Institute of Management, Rajendra Nagar, Indore 452012
  http://www.iimidr.ac.in

The CAT - The Common Admission Test comprised 90 questions divided into 3 sections in the year 2005. Typically this test can be expected to comprise between 75 to 150 objective type questions and is usually divided into three to four sections. Each question has a question statement followed by four alternate answer choices and the candidate has to choose the best answer for each of the questions and mark it on a special Optical Reader answer sheet.

Over the years, the number of questions being asked in CAT has been decreasing steadily. While the early 90s witnessed 180 to 200 questions, the late 90s, specifically CAT 1999 and CAT 2000 had 165 questions each. CAT 2001, CAT 2002 and CAT 2003 had only 150 questions each and these 150 questions were divided into three sections of 50 questions each. There were 123 questions in CAT 2004 and only 90 in CAT 2005. CAT 2004 and CAT 2005 both had differential marks to questions. There were 0.5 marks, 1 mark and 2 marks questions.

The duration of the test is of 120 minutes. This literally translates to answering a CAT question in 48 seconds. Most successful aspirants do not attempt anything more than 120 plus questions. And quite a lot of them attempt between 70 and 90 marks worth of questions. The key to success, therefore, lies in two important parameters