The notification and dates of the Common Management Admissions Test
(CMAT), the new MBA entrance exam launched by the All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE’s) are finally public. There are nearly two
months to go for the exam, which will be conducted from February 20 to
28, 2012 in two shifts across 61 cities as a computer-based test.
A notification released by the AICTE on Sunday stated that the
AICTE’s first national level online test for management students will be
open for registration for a month-long period starting from December 9,
2011 to January 9, 2012. The test will cost Rs 1,200 for General/OBC
candidates and Rs 600 for SC/ST/PD candidates. There will be additional
bank charges, whether you are buying the form from State Bank of Indian
branches or making an online payment.
A three-hour test, AICTE says that CMAT scores will help applicants
seek admissions across all management programmes at AICTE-approved
Institutions, amounting to about 4 lakh MBA seats on paper.
The test will comprise four sections — Quantitative Techniques and
Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension and
General Awareness. Each section will have 25 questions and weigh 100
marks — that’s 4 marks per question. There will be negative marking of
one mark for each wrong answer.
It is the first time that AICTE is undertaking an entrance test of this scale. The entrance exam came out of an interim Supreme Court decision
in which it asked AICTE in July 2011 to not meddle in affiliated
b-schools’ admission process for the current admission year, and start
its own test if it did not believe in the existing ones.Aptech will execute the computer-based test on the behalf of AICTE after landing the contract post the tender process.
Institutes accepting CMAT:
4000+ B-Schools recognised by AICTE are expected to accept the CMAT.
No. of seats available through CMAT:
Approximately 1.6 lac seats will be available across the country through the CMAT.
CMAT Test Eligibility:
Graduates with 50% in any discipline. Final year students of Graduate Courses can also apply.
Expected No. of Students taking CMAT:
The CMAT 2012 is expected to be administered to about 250,000 candidates all over India and abroad.
List of Test Centres for CMAT:
The CMAT 2012 will be conducted in 23 Indian (States and Union Territories) covering the following 61 cities:
