NMAT

NMAT participating institutes decide the cutoff scores for admission and to shortlist candidates for admission rounds. Several factors, including the previous year's cutoff scores, total applicants, total seats, candidate's performance, among other factors helps in deciding the cutoff scores.

Typically, the participating institute shall decide the NMAT cutoff marks based on the number of seats, total applicants, and previous year's cutoff scores. The cutoff score may change based on demand-supply principle. More number of applications will lead to higher cutoff score. Whereas, decrease in the number of applications can lead to a lower cutoff score.

The conducting body of NMAT, Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), releases the NMAT preparation material. Candidates can buy the NMAT prep material online from Amazon or Flipkart. The online purchase of the NMAT guidebook will provide access to 264 questions from the past exam session, along with 173 new questions in line with the difficulty standards. Candidates also get access to the answers and solutions for these questions. Additionally, candidates get access a total of 475 questions with answer keys and explanations.

Besides the questions from the official guidebook, candidates applying for NMAT get access to one practise paper with 108 questions. Additionally, candidates can purchase two NMAT practise papers designed by GMAC for exam preparation.

NMAT mock test and the actual exam are identical in terms of the exam structure and overall difficulty standards of the exam. The user interface of the NMAT mock test may vary across service providers. However, candidates practising using the official NMAT mock test will get taste of the actual exam user interface.

NMAT mock test released by GMAC is a simulation of the actual exam. Questions, pattern, syllabus, and test structure are similar to the actual exam. However, the score of the NMAT mock test will not affect the admission process at the NMAT participating colleges. Mock test only helps in practicing and revision of the questions.

To score high in NMAT exam, a candidate must follow an approach to attempt the questions for which he/she knows the answer, and guess the question for which he/she doesn't know the answer. Since there is no negative marking, candidates must attempt all questions in NMAT exam. In the speed-based test, one must aim to answer the questions as soon as possible.

Coming to NMAT exam, a test taker has to answer each question keeping in mind the sectional time limit. Additionally, candidates get to choose the section chronology before the test starts. One can use their analysis from NMAT mock tests to devide a good exam day strategy. Speed and accuracy can also be improved by practising previous years papers and mock tests.

Yes. NMAT scores are accepted by institutes situated out of India as well. The space below mentions the list of NMAT colleges to study abroad:

South Africa

• Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
• Milpark Business School
• North West University
• Rhodes Business School
• University of South Africa (UNISA) Graduate School of Business Leadership
• Wits Business School
• Nelson Mandela University Business School
• University of Cape Town (UCT)
• Johannesburg Business school, University of Johannesburg
• Tshwane School of Business and Society, Tshwane University

Nigeria

• Lagos Business School
• Lead City University
• Redeemer's University
• Afe Babalola University
• Covenant University, Nigeria
• Caleb University, Nigeria

Philippines

• Asian Institute of Management
• Ateneo Graduate School of Business
• Virata School of Business, University of the Philippines
• De La Salle University - Dasmariñas
• School of Business Administration, Arellano University
• De La Salle University
• University of Santo Tomas Graduate School
• St. Paul University Manila

Morocco

• Africa Business School

Candidates appearing for the NMAT exam will come across the unofficial scorecard immediately after submitting the test responses on the exam day. The score report for NMAT appears on the screen on submission of the responses. Candidates will recieve the NMAT scorecard with the sectional and overall scaled scores within 48 hours of appearing for the NMAT exam. However, the issuance of official scorecard for NMAT can be delayed subject to any test delivery incidences or audit of online exams. The issuance of the official NMAT scorecard will not take more than 5 to 7 working days.

NMAT official scorecard will be considered for admission to NMAT participating colleges.

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.