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MAT 2014  Notification

Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is a standardised test being administered since 1988 to facilitate Business Schools (B-Schools) to screen candidates for admission to MBA and allied programmes. Govt. of India, Ministry of HRD approved MAT as a national level test in 2003. Any B-School - national or international - can consider MAT Score as an admission input based on the Score Cards issued to the candidates. The largest test of its kind in the nation, MAT will continue to be your passport to over 600 B-Schools across India.

Name of the activity Management Aptitude Test (MAT)
Mode of Test
(How to take the test)
Candidate can choose any one of the two options to take the test:

Paper Based Test
Or
Computer Based Test

Test Date Paper Based Test Computer Based Test

04 May 2014 (Sunday)

10 May 2014 (Saturday) onwards** 
**If the number of candidates registered for Computer Based Test is limited and can be accommodated in a single day; the test will be completed on 10 May 2014 itself.
Test Timing Paper Based Test Computer Based Test
10.00am-12.30pm In different Time slots at specific test venues;subject to number of candidates registering for Computer Based Test.
Eligibility
  • Graduates in any discipline.
  • Final year students of Graduate Courses can also apply.
How to apply
(Registration Will start by 1st week of March 2014 onwards)

 

Candidate can choose any one of the following modes to apply.

  • Register online at website lnk: http://apps.aima.in/matmay14 with Credit Card/Debit Card (ATM Card). Payment. Detailed procedure is given on the website link.

    or

  • Obtain crossed Demand Draft (DD) of Rs 1200/- (One thousand two hundred only) in favour of ‘All India Management Association’ payable at Delhi from any Bank. Register online at website link: http://apps.aima.in/matmay14 along with the DD details. Detailed procedure is given on the website link

    or

  • Obtain Form with MAT Bulletin/CD against cash payment of Rs 1200/- (One thousand two hundred only) from listed Nodal Centres of AIMA OR from AIMA, New Delhi.
Sale Counters
(Available by 2nd week of March 2014 onwards)
AIMA Nodal Centres
List of Participating Management Institutes
(Available by 1st week of March 2014 onwards)

List of Participating MIs

Four Digit codes for Management Institutes/University Departments accepting the MAT Score are given in the List of Participating Institutes/Universities as MI Code. There are five blocks consisting of four boxes each given in the Form. Fill the codes of those five institutes only where you have applied or are applying for admission. No additional fee is to be paid for filling these 5 choices.

Important Notice: Applicants are advised to check the approval/recognition status of various programs directly from the concerned Authorities/ Institutes/ Universities.

AIMA HAS COME ACROSS A COUPLE OF CASES WHERE THE ASPIRING CANDIDATES’ MAT SCORE IS NOT ACCEPTED BY SOME PARTICIPATING INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES FOR ADMISSION TO MBA FULL TIME COURSE DESPITE THEIR CONFIRMATION TO AIMA AT THE TIME OF PARTICIPATION BY INCORPORATING THEIR NOTIFICATIONS IN MAT BULLETIN. CANDIDATES ARE ADVISED TO RECHECK WITH THE CONCERNED INSTITUTES/UNIVERSITIES BEFORE APPLYING FOR MAT.

Last Date For sale of Forms 16 April 2014 (Wednesday)
Last Date for submission of
filled in Registration Forms at
AIMA, New Delhi
19 April 2014 (Saturday)
Last Date For
Online Registration
16 April 2014 (Wednesday)
Last Date for submission of filled in Online Registration Forms at AIMA, New Delhi 19 April 2014 (Saturday)
Test Centre City
(Available by 1st week of March 2014 onwards)
  • Test Centre City list is provided in the bulletin. Test Venues for Paper-Based Test and Computer Based Test are different.
  • The Paper-Based Test will take place only on one day i.e., 04 May 2014 at one time slot i.e., 10.00am-12.30pm, whereas the Computer Based Test will take place from 10 May 2014 onwards in different time slots.
  • If the number of candidates registered for Computer Based Test is limited and can be accommodated in a single day; the test will be completed on 04 May 2014 itself.
  • If the number of candidates registered for Computer Based Test is few in a particular centre, these candidates have to appear for the Paper-Based Test on 04 May 2014.
  • One candidate can appear only for one date for the May 2014 MAT.
MAT Registration Form Acknowledgement

All Forms received at AIMA are scanned / validated within 5 days and the Form Numbers of such received forms will be available on website link:: http://apps.aima.in/mat_reciept.aspx.

Further, your form is scrutinized and if found in order; it is provisionally registered.

MAT Registration Form received later than the due date is liable to be rejected. Neither any correspondence in this regard will be entertained nor will the fee be refunded.

Admit Card

  • All provisionally registered candidates both for Paper Based and Computer Based Test can download their Admit Card from AIMA website link: http://apps.aima.in/matadmitcard.aspx by 26 April 2014 (Saturday).
  • Specific Admit Card is generated both for the candidates opted for the Paper Based Test and for the Computer Based Test.
  • Admit Card contains Candidate’s Name, Form No, Roll No, Test Date, Test Time and Test Venue Address. Candidate has to strictly follow the date and time allotted to him/her in the case of Computer Based Test.
  • Candidates who have opted for Computer Based Test can choose the date and time slot of their choice, subject to availability. Date and time slot will be automatically allotted by the system to those candidates who do not select their slot upto 4 days before the Computer Based Test. No request for change of date and time slot will be entertained.

  • No separate Admit Card will be issued or dispatched.