All About NMAT 2018

NMAT conducted by GMAC is an entrance exam to get into NMIMS for various courses of business management studies. There are NMIMS campus- Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Indore, Navi Mumbai and Shirpur. Other institutes accepting the scores of this exam are:

SVKMs Narsee Monjee Institute of Management studies(Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai), Xavier University, MISB Bocconi, IFCAI Business School, Thapar School of Management, VIT University and much more.

NMAT 2018 registration dates are from July 03, 2018 to October 03, 2018 while Exam dates are from October 4, 2018 to December 17, 2018. Results will be announced in the 2^nd week of January 2019.

The exam has three sections with a fixed time allotted. The answers get finalized when you move on to the next section.

Sr. No	Section	No. Of Question	Time(Minutes)
1.	Language Skills	32	22
2.	Quant. Skills	48	60
3.	Logical Reas.	40	38

There is NO NEGATIVE MARKING in this exam.

Registration Process:

Create an account on www.nmat.org.in using a valid e-mail id.

Provide Contact Information, Personal Information, Education and Work Experience, Preference of Course interested and then agree to Terms and Conditions. The exam will be held in 44 cities at 58 centers in India and at 4 International Centers. On the D-Day, candidates must bring the following things: Printout of Confirmation E-Mail & Admit Card, Photocopy of Primary ID, Latest photograph with one original ID( Passport/PAN Card/ Voter ID/ UID/ Aadhar Card/ Driver’s Licence).

The exam validity for NMAT exam is 1 year.

CUT-OFFs for NMIMS Mumbai/Bangalore and Hyderabad (2018-2020)

NMIMS	Quantitative	Logical	Language
Hyderabad	60	50	50
Bangalore	60	50	50
Mumbai	65	55	50

Candidates can appear only 3 times during a year for NMAT exam including the first and two retakes. The best score is counted.

88,454 students gave the NMAT by GMAC 2017 exam with a 7% rise from the last year.

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure”

Cracking NMAT with flying colors depends on many factors. To stick to the syllabus, completing standard books, past year papers and mock tests are some tasks that top the list of priority.

Vocabulary for any exam can be improved only by reading newspapers like THE HINDU/HINDUSTAN TIMES/INDIAN EXPRESS daily and learning new words from it. Contribute at least 1 hour to newspaper reading. Make notes from it. Synonyms and Antonyms can be prepared well from WORD POWER MADE EASY by NORMAN LEWIS.

Books of Arun Sharma are good for NMAT and CAT but one must not focus only on one book. Follow Sarvesh Kumar Verma for better explanation and note the trend of questions in mock tests.

Along with taking mock tests daily, attempt the previous year papers in a time limit and correct your mistakes. Identify your weak topics and practice as much as you can. The exam has 120 questions with only one minute per question. The pool of questions will have mixture of questions, some easy and some difficult. Thus, it’s our duty to identify the easy questions and attempt them to maximize the score. Short tricks provided by your coaching OR available on Internet can be of great help while solving problems.

Short notes will help you at the ninth hour. Formulas should be at your tips.

For how many years is the score of NMAT valid?

‘NMAT by GMAC’ score is valid for 4/5 years while NMAT score is valid for one academic session. Therefore, if you give the exam in 2018 then the validity is from 2019-2021. The results are announced within 4 to 5 weeks after attempting the test.


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