COMMON MANAGEMENT ADMISSION TEST (CMAT)

Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is a National level Management Entrance Examination conducted by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for facilitating institutions to select suitable students for admission in all management programmes approved by AICTE. AICTE's mission is to reduce the burden of students in attending to multiple examinations. CMAT is the only test for admission in MBA Programmes in AICTE approved institutions and University Departments of all the states and one of the five tests for PGDM programmes.

CMAT is conducted as online twice in a year in various cities and students can sit for both the exams. CMAT will be beneficial for the students because they can choose their best score while taking admission in any B school. 

ELIGIBILITY

Graduates in any discipline or Final year students of Graduate Courses can apply for CMAT. 

Note: The eligibility criteria for admission to Management programs (Diploma and Post  Graduation) is as mentioned below : 

• Management (PGDM, MBA and similar) : Recognized Bachelor’s Degree of minimum 3 Yrs duration Obtained at least 50% (45% in case of candidate belonging to reserved category) at the qualifying Examination
• Management (PGCM) : Recognized Bachelor’s Degree of minimum 3 Yrs duration 
• Management (Executive PGDM) : Any recognized Bachelors degree of minimum 3 years duration and a minimum of 5 years relevant managerial / supervisory experience. Obtained at least 50% (45% in case of candidate belonging to reserved category) at the qualifying Examination.

TEST PATTERN 

The online CMAT consists of 100 questions designed to test the applicants capabilities in the Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation; Logical Reasoning; Language Comprehension and General Awareness. Duration of exam will be 180 minute.

Structure of CMAT

Type of Question	Number of question	Maximum Mark
Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation	25	100
Logical Reasoning	25	100
Language Comprehension	25	100
General Awareness	25	100

There shall be negative marking for wrong answers, for each wrong answer 1 mark shall be deducted.

A Trial test will be available in the website for the candidates to have a feel of the online test and navigation functionality. Candidates are advised to go through them carefully to familiarize themselves with the screens, layout, and navigation.

At the test venue, each candidate will be seated at a desk with a computer terminal and he/she will be provided with a scratch paper for calculations. After the test, candidate must leave the scratch paper at the desk. Rough work cannot be done on any other paper/sheet, as nothing will be allowed inside the testing room. No breaks will be given during the test.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The candidates must have the following ready before starting the CMAT registration process

• A Computer with good Internet connectivity so that there is no breakage of Internet during registration
• All your qualification details as you need to enter them while registering for CMAT exam
• You need to upload your scanned photo while registering, hence keep ready a scanned clear photo of yours taken on a white background. The size of this photo should be 140 x 160 (60Kb)
• You need to upload your scanned signature while registering, hence keep ready your scanned clear signature done on a white background. The size of this signature file should be 60 x 90 (30Kb)
• A Valid e-mail id which you will be using at least for the next 6 months. All communication will be done on this e-mail id which you will enter while registering for CMAT exam
• A Valid mobile number as all information via sms will be sent to this number
• A valid Credit / Debit card in case you want to pay ONLINE
• A Printer connected to your system as you will have to PRINT 3 copies of CHALLAN in case you are planning to pay by CASH at the bank

CMAT Registration

Registering for CMAT is a 3 Step process :

Step 1 : Read Instructions and Self Registration:
First time you will enter as NEW USER. Here you will read the instructions carefully, accept the declaration and proceed. Now you need to do Self Registration. Here you need to enter few basic details. Please ensure you enter the correct details on this Self Registration form and verify it before you click on SUBMIT button on this page. Once you SUBMIT this page, you cannot edit any data entered on this page. Submitting this page will generate a unique 6 digit password. This password will be shown on your screen and will be sent to you via e-mail and sms. From now onwards, whenever you wish to login to the registration portal, you will come as an EXISTING USER and login with your e-mail id and this unique 6 digit password. This completes your self registration

Step 2 : Payment Process
You can do the payment in either of the two modes mentioned below

Mode i) ONLINE PAYMENT
You can select ONLINE PAYMENT mode and then do the payment using Credit card / Debit card / Net Banking
Once your payment is successfully done, you will receive a confirmation e-mail and sms. Once you have received the successful payment confirmation, you can proceed with the remaining part of registration process

Mode ii) CASH Payment in SBI bank
You can select this option to pay by CASH at any of the designated SBI bank branch. Once you select this option and proceed, you will see a CHALLAN on your screen with your details already filled in it. You need to take 3 PRINT OUTS of this CHALLAN, fill in the details wherever required in all the copies, and walk in to your nearest SBI bank branch with CASH on the next day of generation of Challan. Cash Deposit will be accepted only from the next day of your Challan generation

In return to the CASH Deposit, the bank will give you one copy of CHALLAN with their stamp and a JOURNAL number written on it. Please ensure the JOURNAL number written is clearly visible before you leave the bank. Now that you have deposited the CASH and got the acknowledgement CHALLAN, you need to wait for 48 hours. In these 48 hours, your payment will get updated in the registration portal.

You will receive an e-mail and sms confirming that your payment data has got updated in the registration portal. Then you need to re login to the portal proceed with the remaining part of registration process

Step 3 : 
Now that you are done with the payment, you need to fill the remaining part of the form. Once you have filled the complete form, we suggest you once again check the complete data entered by clicking on VIEW/MODIFY button. Clicking on VIEW/MODIFY button will allow you to modify your data in case you want to modify 

Once you are sure that all the data entered is accurate, you will have to accept a declaration and click on I AGREE. The system will re-confirm to you for SUBMIT. Once you confirm, your form will get finally SUBMITTED and no change in the data is possible after this SUBMIT
You will see a message on your screen stating “Thank you for successfully registering for the AICTE CMAT exam.