CMAT 2017, scheduled to be held on January 28, 2017 is a pan-India online aptitude test. Marks obtained in CMAT are valid for admission to management courses offered by various B-Schools across India.
January 29 will be 'reserve day', which means exam will be held on that day only in case of any emergency.
Candidates who are Indian citizens and have completed graduation (any subject) are eligible to appear for the exam. Students who are in the final year of their graduation course (10+2+3) and whose result will be declared before the admission to CMAT 2017-18 begins, can also apply for CMAT online exam. There is no age restriction for CMAT.
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Registration Fees for CMAT 2017 Rs 1400 while for SC/ST/PD candidates it is Rs 700.
For those, who are planning to appear for the exam should prepare Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation, General Awareness, Language Comprehension, and Logical Reasoning thoroughly as the question paper consists of questions from these four topics.
The exam paper consists of 100 questions, divided into four sections of 25 questions each. Each question carries 4 marks each and the duration of the exam is 180 minutes.
The online exam is conducted by All India Council for Technical Education in 62 centres across the country including Gulbarga, Jamshedpur, Surat, Ludhiana, Varanasi etc. The candidates can choose their test centres and time slots according to their convenience. Note: For full list exam centre, please refer to the official website.
Registrations for CMAT 2017 is scheduled to begin on October 10, 2016 and will end on December 10, 2016.
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Answered Yesterday
CMAT response sheet and provisional answer key are same. Since the answer key contains candidate's responses too, it is also called CMAT response sheet.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered Yesterday
Candidates can use the CMAT answer key to calculate the score in the following manner:
· Check number of correct attempts
· Check number of incorrect attempts
· Add 4 marks for every correct attempt
· Subtract 1 mark for every incorrect attempt
· Sub total will be CMAT score
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered Yesterday
Filing objection against the CMAT answer key is not mandatory for all candidates. Only those candidate who feel a question/s is incorrect and they have proof to support the claim, should raise objection.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered Yesterday
The CMAT answer key objection fee per question is INR 200. Candidates have to pay it at the time of filling the objection form.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered Yesterday
CMAT answer key helps the candidate in checking their performance and it is also a window for NTA to communicate transparency in result preparation number.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered Yesterday
Objection cannot be raised against the final answer key of CMAT, as it contains the answers evaluated again after objections by candidates.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered Yesterday
CMAT final answer key is released as a downloadable PDF. Candidates can download it by visiting the NTA-CMAT website and simply downloading the document.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered 6 days ago
Validity of CMAT score is one year in most of the colleges. There are a very few and Tier 3 colleges that may accept CMAT score from previous years. So, if they wish to drop a year, they should appear for the exam again in the next session.
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Contributor-Level 7
Answered a week ago
The first criteria is CMAT cut off. Candidates should shortlist all the colleges whose cut off is same or lower than their score. Thereafter, check fees, location, accreditation, curriculum, pedagogy and placement reports to choose one foe themselves.
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