NMAT 2026 Cut off: Check College & Course-wise Cutoff Score

Graduate Management Admission Council releases the NMAT scorecard online on the official exam website. Candidates need to access the NMAT scorecard from the login dashboard which was used while filling the online application form. The official NMAT scorecard is downloadable within 48 hours of taking the exam. The login credentials required to download the NMAT score card include:

- Email ID
- Password (generated at the time of registration)

In addition to the login credentials mentioned above, candidated may have to enter the captcha code as displayed on the login window.

Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) releases the NMAT scores immediately after the exam has been submitted. However, the scorecard is not downloadable immediately after the submission of responses. Candidates can download the NMAT scorecard within 48 hours of the test date. The scorecard can be downloaded and kept for future references while applying at different participating institutes. GMAC will share best of three exam scores within the NMAT participating institutes selected by the candidate while applying for the exam.

NMAT exam is conducted three times within a specified test window. Candidates can choose the preferred exam date from the available test window. Since the questions attempted by different candidates may have different difficulty level, GMAC scales the scores of each attempt to equalise the performance of all the candidates. 

After the exam, the test forms are equated on a common scale to remove any kind of discrepancy in regards with the performance of candidate owing to different difficulty level of each NMAT question paper. All the students have then scored on an equated scale to avoid candidates benfitting from indifferent difficulty standards.

NMAT scaled scores are based on the raw exam score after adjusrting for the difficulty level of the exam version. The scaled score helps ensure fairness across different test slots. Whereas, the NMAT percentile score was calculated earlier to evaluate candidates on a relative scale. Lately, GMAC dropped releasing the NMAT percentile score. NMAT scorecard hosts the NMAT scaled score for all three sections as well as the overall scaled score of the candidate.

More than 50 colleges accept NMAT scores. Some NMAT colleges are:

• SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
• K J Somaiya Institute of Management
• Indian School of Business (ISB) (Advanced Management Programme in Business Analytics (AMPBA)
• SPJIMR (For PGMPW and GMP) 
• SDA Bocconi Asia Center (formerly MISB Bocconi)
• XIM University
• T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), A Constituent Unit of MAHE, Manipal All MBA Programs, India
• ICFAI Business School
• SOIL Institute of Management
• FLAME University 
• Stoa School
• Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab
• ISBR Business School
• Athena School of Management, Mumbai
• School of Business, Woxsen University
• IFMR Graduate School of Business
• Thapar School of Management
• SRM University, Delhi NCR, Sonepat
• Shiv nadar Institute of Management Studies
• School of Petroleum Management, PDPU
• Jain University
• CMS Business School
• ITM Business School, Navi Mumbai
• GITAM Deemed to be University, Visakhapatnam
• BML Munjal University
• Bennett University
• Universal Business School
• Indus Business Academy (IBA), Bangalore
• SRM University, Chennai 
• Chitkara university
• Alliance University
• Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University
• MIT World Peace University, Pune
• BSE Institute Limited
• Amity University
• Jindal Global Business School, Delhi/NCR
• VIT University
• University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES)
• IILM University
• Myra School of Business
• Mody University
• Hyderabad Business School, GITAM University
• Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab
• IIHMR University, Jaipur, Rajasthan
• IFIM College
• Jagdish Sheth School of Management
• ATLAS SkillTech University
• ISME School of Management and Entrepreneurship
• iMET Global
• Ansal University, Gurgaon
• Rishihood University

Candidates taking the NMAT exam will find the unofficial scorecard appearing on the screen immediately after they submit their responses. The official scorecard is released within 48 hours of the exam delivery. The unofficial scorecard and the official scorecard varies as the unofficial scorecard only mentions the scores based on the submitted responses and the marking scheme. While the official scorecard for NMAT will mention the scaled scores as well as percentile score which is considered for admission.

The official NMAT scorecard will have the following details:

• Candidate’s name
• Candidate’s NMAT registration number
• Scaled score of each section of NMAT
• Total score (scaled) of the candidate

NMAT scorecard issued inside the login dashboard indicates the adjusted raw marks of a candidate after considering the difference in the difficulty level for all candidates. Scaliong of NMAT scores ensures fairness while evaluating candidates getting different question while appearing for the NMAT exam. 

Before the scaling of scores, GMAC evaluates each candidate's performance based on the actual number of correct answers and incorrect responses by the candidates. NMAT reports the scaled score to candidates and institutions.

Test takers can find the NMAT results immediately after they submit their responses. The appearing window after the responses have been submitted mentions the NMAT scores. However, the scorecard download facility is provided 48 hours after the exam responses were submitted. Candidates can download the NMAT scorecard anmd retain the same for future references. The scorecard is to be presented at the time of admission based on the NMAT scores. 

GMAC does not provide any hard copy for NMAT scorecard on the exam day. However, test takers receive an unofficial digital score immediately at the test centre once they submit the exam responses. Candidates get the official score report for MMAT within 48 hours of the exam delivery. Candidates can download the NMAT official scorecard from the official website. Several participating b-schools may also require a hard copy of NMAT scorecvard at the time of selection rounds. Therefore, candidates must download and print the official scorecard if a hard copy is required by an institution.

Candidates who take the NMAT exam get an email regarding the release of the scorecard. The scorecard is to be downloaded for future references at the time of admission. Graduate Management Admission Council, the conducting body of NMAT, will intimate the test takers about the release of the scorecard via an email. Typically, GMAC send an email for the release of official scorecard within 48 hours of the exam delivery. Alternatively, candidates will get the realtime updates on the release of NMAT results from shiksha's NMAT result article.

Candidates can take NMAT up to three times during one admission session. Candidates are allowed to register for NMAT and schedule an exam attempt. However, the acceptance of NMAT scores depends on the NMAT participating colleges. All NMAT colleges will have different selection criteria. Some of the NMAT colleges, such as NMIMS will only accept the NMAT score from first exam attempt. Therefore, attempting NMAT exam three times will be of no use if the applican t is desirous of admission to any of the campuses of NMIMS.

NMAT scores are accepted for admission at more than 50 b-schools. There is no common admission policy for all NMAT participating colleges. All participating colleges for NMAT will set its own eligibility conditions, cutoff scores, academic requirements, work experience preference, and selection process.

Some of the NMAT participating colleges may have selection rounds, such as Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), or Personal Interview (PI). Some b-schools may have more weightage for NMAT scores, while some might have more weightage for the internal selection rounds.

The scores of candidates will be equated and percentile scores are calculated after the completion of exam for declaring the final NMAT result. Check below, how the scaled and percentile scores are calculated.

Scaled scores: The scaled scores are prepared after normalising the marks obtained by the candidates. These scores are equated to account any differences in the overall difficulty level. This process is applied to check the scores are comparable across the different sets of question papers.

Final percentile: The final percentile is prepared after the candidates have appeared for NMAT by GMAC examination. The scorecard of NMAT sent to schools will be updated with the announcement of the result. For example, if a test taker is said to score 75 percentile, the test taker scored better than 75%ile of all the test takers who took the exam.

Several NMAT participating colleges require sectional cutoffs to shortlist candidates for admission. While shortlisting candidates for selection rounds such as GD, and PI, NMAT participating colleges will release overall as well as sectional cutoff scores.

NMAT sectional cutoff is the minimum score required in each section of the exam for admission to a particular B-school. NMAT exam has three sections.