The Common Admission Test (CAT) is a computer based test held in India. The test scores a
candidate on the bases of Quantitative Ability (QA), Verbal Ability (VA) and Reading Comprehension (RC), Data Interpretation
(DI) and Logical Reasoning (LR). The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) started this exam and use the
test for selecting students for their business administration programs. The
test is conducted every year by one of the IIMs based on a policy of rotation.
In August 2011, it was announced that Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs)
and Indian Institute of
Science (IISc) would also use the
CAT scores, instead of the Joint
Management Entrance Test (JMET),
to select students for their management programmes starting with the 2012-14
batch. Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 was conducted by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad
(IIM Ahmadabad) on November 29,
2015. IIM Indore held
Common Admission Test for the years 2013-14.
Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is a standardized test being administered since
1988 to facilitate Business Schools (B-Schools) to screen candidates for
admission to MBA and allied programmes. Govt. of India, Ministry of HRD
approved MAT as a national level test in 2003. Any B-School - national or
international - can consider MAT Score as an admission input based on the Score
Cards issued to the candidates. The largest test of its kind in the nation, MAT
will continue to be your passport to over 600 B-Schools across India.
