MAT May 2023 Application Form, Exam Dates, Eligibility, Pattern and Syllabus

The conducting authority has announced the tentative dates for the MAT May examination, but this can vary depending on the authorities' consequences and current pandemic issues. Below is the speculative time period announced by AIMA for MAT examination 2023:

The Eligibility criteria for MAT 2023 May session

The organizing committee will require the candidate's minimum eligibility criteria applying for the exam is that—they will have to pass their degree course without any backlogs and a decent CGPA aggregate maintained throughout all the semesters. More than 600+ B-Schools in the country will accept MAT 2023 scores for management studies or MBA admissions.  

• The candidates can first choose five colleges in which they are seeking admissions, and if at all they want to choose a more additional number of colleges, they will have to pay INR 118 per college. 
• Candidates must be residents of this country and qualified to be within the specified age limit under which they can attempt this exam. 
• They can choose to attempt their exam in both CBT and PBT mode, and the scores of the better ones are taken into consideration. 

Candidates who are willing to join the MBA course will have to compulsorily take up any of the management entrance exams like CMAT, MAT, CAT, GMAT, XAT, and so on. To fill in the MAT 2023 application form, candidates will have to use the online platform by visiting their official page and following the link for the further steps of the application process. Once the application forms are filled and verified with the authorities, the admit card will be released for the respective candidates on the website itself. 

According to the latest information about the exam, the registrations will be open for the exams from the first week of March, which should be submitted within the stipulated time period. By the MAT account, the students can fill the application form partially and be saved to complete it later in some time. It is suggested that the students clearly know the eligibility or the qualification criteria of the students before applying for the students to proceed with the application process.

Steps to fill MAT 2023 registration via online

Step 1: Registration through online mode

The desired candidates can visit the official website of MAT 2023 and register their names for the upcoming session. They will have to create their password and username to register so that the confirmation mail will be sent to generate the application form number. Through this number, the candidates can start filling the application form.  

Step 2: MAT Application Form filling

Kindly, the candidates will have to fill up the details in the given particulars by mentioning their educational qualification, age, personal information, mode of examination, center, subject, etc. They will also have to choose three convenient exam centers in the application form to be easy for the AIMA authority to allow the exam centers. 

Step 3: Attachment of Scanned documents digitally

After filling in the details, it is important for the students to attach or upload the necessary documents of the candidates along with their photograph and signature. This should be first scanned and then uploaded to the application form in the given or prescribed format. Later the candidates will have to cross-check all the given information and proceed to the last step.

Step 4: Payment of Application fee 

The whole process of application form submission will be complete only if the candidates will make the payment for an application form. The MAT application fee payment must be made through online mode with the help of debit/credit card or by net banking UPI, E-wallet, or IMPS. The MAT 2023 application fee is around 1550 INR for computer-based tests and paper-based tests individually. But, if at all the candidate wants to attempt the exam in both modes, then the fee amount of the application will be around 2600 INR.

Note: After finishing the payment transaction, the candidates will have to save the e-receipt that will be generated automatically and sent to the candidates. This has to be kept safe as it can be asked in the future process of the examination. The receipt will be sent within few minutes of the transaction made; if not, the payment is meant to be invalid. If there are multiple payments from the candidate, then the amount will be refunded to candidates within 7-10 working days.

Below are some of the important and mandatory information that has to be filled in along with attaching photos and signature:

• Name of the student
• Candidate's Parents name
• Current Address
• Candidate's date of birth
• Candidate's Educational Qualification
• Category of the candidate
• Scanned copy of passport-sized photograph and signature
• Candidate's email address and contact number
• Marks’s card of 10+2 board exams
• Degree certificate (Provisional is also accepted)

MAT 2023 is conducted by AIMA every year under four sessions with CBT and PBT mode, and the exam paper pattern is as follow

• All the questions asked in MAT 2023 are in MCQ or multiple-choice question format.
• The Total time duration given for MAT 2023 is 150 min or 2 ½ hours, respectively.
• The complete paper is divided into five parts or sections where each section has 40 questions
• There are around 200 questions in total, and each correct answer will carry one mark, and for the wrong answer, 0.25 marks will be reduced according to the marking scheme.

Syllabus for MAT 2023

MAT 2023 is mainly for candidates willing to take up management course in their PG level and this is an entrance exam for those programs. The complete MAT 2023 paper will be sectioned into five parts, namely- Quantitative skills, Data Analysis & Sufficiency, Language Comprehension, General intelligence, and Critical Reasoning, and Indian Global Environment and the syllabus topics of each section is tabulated below:

Mathematics Skill- Syllabus

This section comprises of topics from

Data Analysis and Sufficiency- Syllabus

This section comprises of topics from

Indian Global Environment- Syllabus

This section will include topics like

Language Comprehension-Syllabus

This division includes topics like:

General Intelligence and Critical Reasoning- Syllabus

This last section includes topics like:

The May session of MAT 2023 will be released accordingly after the exam has been conducted. The exact date for the result announcement will be done later and will be declared by AIMA. For now, the March session results will be released by the end of the month as the exam will be conducted on 24 March 2023. The result will be put up on the website itself and should be checked online. Candidates will have to visit the exam website, enter their exam roll number and application number to verify, and then download their respective result cards. The exam authority will send their score/ rank card of the attempted candidates through by post, and they can take a physical copy or printout of the result card and keep them safe for other references.

For now, the results for the Feb session of MAT 2023 will be out on 31 March 2023, where the scorecard will be available on the exam page. The result for the March session of MAT 2023 will be live in the month of April, where the exact date is yet to be mentioned by the authorities.

The scores of MATS 2023 will be valid for one year, and if the student did not get any admissions within a year, then that the candidates will have to again attempt for next year's MAT examination. 

Admit cards for MAT 2023 May session will be released in online mode itself, and they will be declared a week before the examination. The exact dates for the May session admit card release is still not available, but the registered candidates will be notified about it. When the admit card is out, the candidates will have to check for the details printed on it carefully; if there are changes to be made, it must be reported to the candidates as early as possible. The candidates can avail of the admit card until the previous day of the examination as it is one of the essential documents that is required to take up the examination. The candidates will not be allowed to write the exam if they don't carry this admit card or one photo ID.

Students will have to participate in the admission process of the interested institute as there is no separate counseling process conducted by the authorities. But some of the B-schools or management institutes will arrange for a GD or PI and then evaluate the candidate's performance to provide admissions. The MAT scores provide admissions for both MBA and PGDM programs of management.

The major criteria for seat allotment are the marks secured by the candidates in the entrance exam. Once those eligibility criteria are met, the students will also have to submit their certificates and original documents for verification, without which the admission process will be invalid.

AIMA, the exam authority, will announce the MAT cut-off criteria once the results are out, and this can also be checked on the exam website. Here the students must obtain the minimum cut-off criteria marks to qualify for admission to their desired colleges.

Depending on these cut-off marks, the candidates will be selected and consider the total seat availability, the total number of students attempting the exam, etc.