MBA Entrance Exam

The CAT exam is always conducted on the last Sunday of November every year. As a result of which, CAT 2025 exam is expected to be conducted on Nov 30, 2025. The announcement will be made at iimcat.ac.in and all newspapers. We at Shiksha also notify the aspirants through our communication channels. Registrations cum application process for CAT 2025 will begin from the first week of August and end in the third week of September 2025.

Check below CAT exam dates for last five years:

• CAT 2024: November 24
• CAT 2023: November 26
• CAT 2022: November 27
• CAT 2021: November 28
• CAT 2020: November 29 

Candidates who did not appear for the CAT entrance exam can apply St. Xavier's College, Kolkata admissions as it is not a mandatory entrance exam. The candidates who wish to gain admissions into the MBA course of the institute have to appear for the Kolkata University entrance test for St. Xavier's College, Kolkata MBA course admissions.

Gautam Buddha Universty has shown a strongly consistent CAT cutoff trend for MBA. Though the cutoff still remains cutoff at 25 across the years of 2021-23. One can view the same overall MBA cut-off trend for General category in tabular format below:

The major events that candidates must lookout for when applying for MBA admissions at ASB Trivandrum are the admission deadline, registration deadline, exam dates, counseling rounds dates and result decleration dates.

Each year, the dates for the aforementioned key events will change. Candidates are required to visit the official website of ASB Trivandrum to learn the admission deadline and visit the official portal for the aforementioned exams to learn the dates for the rest of the events.

No, MAT scores are not required for admission to the MBA course at SOM, BML Munjal University. The names of the entrance exam scores that the university accepts for admission to the MBA programme are: MAT/ NMAT/ XAT/ CAT/ CMAT/ CUET. 

If you make an error in the educational qualifications section of the MAT form, you can typically make amends during the official correction period offered by AIMA. The correction period is open for a short time after the submission of the application. You can log in with your MAT account and edit the form but not every field is editable, so check before you submit. If the correction period has closed, then you can contact AIMA support, but changes will not be guaranteed. It is always a good idea to save a copy of your original form for your reference.