Eight Key Tips to Crack NMAT 2025: Preparation Strategy, Expert's Advice

Taking into consideration the popularity of NMAT and the ranking of institutions accepting NMAT scores for MBA admission, Shiksha brings to you eight tips to create a preparation strategy for NMAT exam. Read below.

NMAT 2025 Preparation: The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) will conduct NMAT exam for MBA admissions in India and abroad. NMAT 2025 is scheduled from November 5 to December 20. Candidates targeting MBA admissions should be in the final phase of NMAT preparation. To excel in the NMAT exam, candidates must have a dedicated plan. Candidates have three attempts to appear for NMAT every year.

After NMAT registration, candidates have to choose the exam date while scheduling the exam. Candidates must plan three attempts of the NMAT exam before they proceed to select an exam date. Prior to knowing the strategies for NMAT 2025, candidates must familiarise themselves with the NMAT exam pattern.

If you aim to crack the exam, use your time best. To help create a preparation strategy for NMAT 2025, Shiksha brings to you eight tips. Considering the time left and the exam difficulty level, we hope these tips will help you crack NMAT 2025 with a good score.

Eight tips to crack NMAT 2025

1. Create a strategy for practice: Practicing without any strategy is not worthwhile. Ask questions to yourself like what subject to prepare at what time, how much time to devote to it, when to start revision and so on.
2. Convert your weaknesses to strengths and make strong areas stronger: To do this, here’s a four-step strategy:
   1. Practice and understand solved examples
   2. Practice unsolved exercises
   3. Next, move on to NMAT mock tests
   4. Finally, solve the previous years’ NMAT question papers. Try to practice around 20 questions in each step for each topic.
3. Revision should be on the top of your mind in the last few days: The more you are clear about basic concepts, the more confident you are in solving all the questions successfully in the exam. Try to revise the chapters' basics to score high in the exam.
4. Work out on shortcuts: If you are confident about any topic or subject, do not practice odd questions. Find out shortcuts to solving a time-consuming question and practice NMAT by GMAC mock tests.
5. Time Management. Each section has specific durations assigned for completion, i.e. NMAT will have a sectional time limit. While practising, keep a timer, onscreen or physical, to keep track of the time and ensure that you not only complete the section on time but also there is enough time for revision. The section-wise durations are given in the below table. 

Shiksha has created a free NMAT mock test for candidates to practice and check their preparation level. Click on the link below to start the test.

6. Practice subjects in an alternate manner: During preparation, ensure that you pick up sections in an alternate manner so that you get equal practice and preparation in all three sections. For example, practice the Quant section on one day (or a few days) and the Language Skills sections on the second. This will help in maintaining the mood for practice. For example, devote Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to the Quant and Logical Reasoning section and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to the Language Skills section.

Also Read: NMAT Syllabus 2025

7. Practice individual topics in an alternate manner: Just like you alter between sections, try to alter your topics as well. Do not get stuck on one particular topic for days. Try to switch to a new topic every time you change your section. This is important while revising. If you stick to one topic for too long, you won’t have the time to focus on other topics.

8. Devote last month for revision and mock tests: Try to devote the last month of preparation to the basics and focus on practising the NMAT mock tests. Solving previous years' NMAT question papers in the final few days is essential. There are chances of repetition of questions from past years.

These are a few suggestions to help you in NMAT exam preparation. The better you prepare, the more the chances of securing a seat in a top B-School will be. NMAT by GMAC scores are accepted by numerous institutes in India and abroad. Remember, hard work is the key to success. If you really work hard, you will definitely crack the test.