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The Why What and How of


NMAT
• School of Business Management, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
(NMIMS) is a constituent of the NMIMS university which in turn is a part of the
Shri Vile Parle Kelvani Mandal (SVKM) Trust a leading education body in India.

• NMIMS is known for its Core MBA program (the institute offers a gamut of other
MBA programs too) with a good Placement record. Though the institute boasts of
prominent alumni (like the ex CEO of IPL Sundara Raman among others) the
alumni network is poor due to lackadaisical attitude of the management. The
campus (or the lack of it) is one major issue students have a problem with at
NMIMS. Infrastructure standards are well maintained.

• Narsee Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) is an all India entrance


exam conducted by NMIMS for their MBA program consisting of 300 seats under
the MBA programme, 30 seats under the MBA (Banking), 30 seats under MBA
(Capital market), 30 seats under MBA (Actuarial Science), and 60 seats under
MBA (Pharmaceutical Management), including management quota seats (There is
an official management quota and a shortlist is declared for the same).
• NMAT has undergone a drastic change as it has moved from a pen and paper test to
an online model. It is beneficial as it reduces certain human errors and malpractice.
However some technology constraints have been noticed (In 2009 NMAT was a
better conducted test than CAT) NMIMS has revamped their testing process as
well, wherein every student can now take a maximum of 3 attempts, the time
period being October 1st to December 31st of the year. Taking the best score of the
three for GD-PI selection.

• The Registration can be done online for a cost of Rs.1600 (but knowing NMIMS
it may increase drastically this year) and every subsequent re-take is for Rs.1600.
Re scheduling charges are Rs.800. The registrations start from 1st week of
September usually.
The Paper and its Pattern-
• It consists of 120 questions, 48 of Quantitative techniques and Data Interpretation
(D.I.), 40 of logical reasoning and 32 verbal reasoning, to be completed within Two
hours. It does not have any Negative Marking and thus there is no harm in marking
all the un-answered questions, preferably all with either one of A, B, C, D or E for
all and not randomly marking.
• The marks per question vary, but the overall marks for the paper is 360. The
marking scheme is supposedly scaled and so you expect to get less than what you
expected or if you're lucky, maybe even more than what you expected.
1. The Quant varies from the Easy to Moderate Difficulty range with more focus on
Arithmetic based sums.
2. D.I case lets are also do- able although some may be calculation based and thus
time consuming.
3. Logic is tricky in some cases and also time consuming but is solve-able and easy
as compared to other entrance exams.
4. Verbal reasoning too comes in the easy category and a person can expect to score
a full 32 correct answers.
5. Reading comprehension questions can be answered directly from the passage and
do not require a lot of your own thinking (no inference based or application based
questions)
• CUT OFF FOR THE YEAR 2010-11 was 210 overall, along
with sectional cut offs of 78 for quant, 65 for logic and 55 for
verbal.

• THE BEST STRATEGY


 To attempt the NMAT paper would be to firstly attempt all the
easy questions (or rather leave out the difficult ones) and also
attempt the questions with higher marks.
 After that has been done you may answer the difficult ones or
the ones you don't know by elimination method (strike out
options one by one using whatever knowledge you have on the
question).
 Then finally in the 5-10 minutes left you can have the random
marking (or the popularly known "tukka").
GD-PI

 Calls were given to around 2800 applicants and went on for


almost 2 months. GD's were the traditional 10 people per GD
with topics relating to current affairs and also certain abstract
topics were given.
 Regular reading and GD practice sessions should prepare you
for that.
 PI's were conducted by 3 panel members. Undergoing
preparation in coaching classes or among focus group of
friends would be ideal for preparation.
 One has to pay approximately INR 1,000 over and above the
cost of application to appear for the GD-PI. This makes
NMIMS as one of the costliest B-schools to apply for in the
country.
• Student life
Is restricted to the library and classroom as there is no campus to
speak about.
The institute enjoys the fruits of being located in Mumbai and
hence has good summer and final placements.
The industry interaction is one of the best in the country.

• Overall verdict - 
• NMAT is an important exam in the MBA entrance calendar. 
• With its flagship core MBA program NMIMS is one of the
leading management institutes in India.
• It should be attempted with all seriousness and would require
a considerable tweak in strategy when compared to CAT.
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