NMAT 2022: Important Dates, Application Forms, Admit Card 

NMAT 2022

NMAT 2022: Important Dates, Application Forms, Admit Card 

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GMAC releases the NMAT results 48 hours after the exam. The NMAT scorecard includes the scaled scores for each component (from 12-120) as well as the total score out of 360. Candidates who took the NMAT 2022 can download it using their NMAT username and password. As soon as the exam is over and the scorecards are available, NMIMS and other colleges will reveal their cut offs. NMIMS NMAT 2021 cut off is likely to be 95+ percentile for NMIMS Mumbai and 90+ percentile for NMIMS Hyderabad and Bengaluru campuses. Candidates who reach the overall and sectional cut offs will be invited to participate in the GD and PI rounds, according to the NMAT 2021 Selection Process.

The NMAT 2022 exam is scheduled to run 75 days, beginning in the second week of October and ending in the final week of December 2022. GMAC administers the NMAT test for admission to MBA programmes at NMIMS and other NMAT-accepting universities. The official announcement for NMAT 2022 registration will be released in the first week of August 2022.

The NMAT registration procedure will begin in August 2022. With an NMAT 2022 score, you will be able to get admission to some of the best business schools, like SDA Bocconi, NMIMS Bangalore and Mumbai, VIT Vellore, K J Somaiya, XIM Bhubaneswar, and 50 more.

NMAT is a candidate-friendly exam since test-takers may select the date, time, and location of the exam at their leisure throughout the scheduling procedure.

To take the NMAT 2022, applicants must have a bachelor’s degree from a recognised university with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks in any field. Furthermore, there is no higher age limit for taking the NMAT via GMAC test. Foreign nationals may also apply using their GMAT scores.

The NMAT 2022 test will consist of 108 questions separated into three sections: Language Skills, Logical Reasoning, and Quant. The test will last 120 minutes, according to the NMAT 2022 Exam Pattern. There will be no negative grading, and each right answer will be worth one point.

GMAC allows qualified applicants to take the NMAT test three times in a calendar year (including 2 retakes).

Candidates must first review the previous year’s NMAT test analysis to obtain a sense of the difficulty level and type of questions presented. It is also recommended that you download and solve NMAT sample papers to enhance your time management and test-taking abilities.

Based on past year cut offs, the NMAT Cut off for NMIMS Mumbai is above 95 percentile and 91 percentile for NMIMS Hyderabad and Bengaluru campuses. The cut off for other elite colleges, such as XIMB, VIT Vellore, and SRM University, is between 90 and 95 percentile. 

NMATresults are accepted by about 40+ B-schools in India and 25 institutions in the Philippines, Nigeria, Morocco, and South Africa, and applicants can pick up to five colleges for admission during the registration process.

Main Purpose of the NMAT Exam

NMAT by GMAC is a national-level test for admission to MBA/PGDM programmes at NMIMS and other prestigious institutions that recognise NMAT results. NMIMS administered the NMAT exam until 2015, when it was replaced by the Graduate Management Aptitude Council (GMAC).

NMAT 2022 Highlights

Particulars	Details
Exam Level	National Level Management Entrance Exam
Conducting Body	Graduate Management Aptitude Council (GMAC)
Testing Window	75-88 day test window
NMAT Exam Mode	2 modes: Computer Based Test at Test Centers Home-based Remote Proctored
Number of Questions	108 questions
Type of Questions	MCQs
Number of Sections	3 (Language Skills, Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning)
Order of Answering Sections	Can be Decided
NMAT Exam Marking Scheme	#ERROR!
Retake	2 opportunities to retake the exam

NMAT 2022 Important Dates (Tentative Dates)

Here is the table of NMAT 2022 Important Dates which is given eblow:

NMAT Exam Activity	Start Date	Last Date
NMAT 2022 Registration & Application Process (Without Late fee)	August 3, 2022	November 10, 2022
Facility to choose NMAT 2022 Exam Date – NMAT Scheduling	August 3, 2022	November 17, 2022
NMAT by GMAC Late Registration dates	November 11, 2022	November 15, 2022
NMAT Exam Re-scheduling Dates	August 3, 2022	December 24, 2022
NMAT 2022 Exam Dates	October 14, 2022	December 27, 2022
NMAT 2022 Registration for Re-take of Exam	October 15, 2022	December 24, 2022
NMAT Retake Exam Scheduling	October 15, 2022	December 24, 2022
NMAT 2022 Date of Result Declaration	Score card available 48 hours after taking the NMAT exam	NMAT result will have scores only. Percentile scores may not be available in the score card
NMAT 2022 Exam Last date for score card download	--	March 31, 2023

NMAT 2022: Eligibility Criteria

To complete out NMAT Application forms, candidates must meet the GMAC qualifying conditions listed below.

• NMAT 2022 applications are open to Indian nationals. NRIs can apply for admission if they have a legitimate GMAT score of 600 or above.
• A three or four-year bachelor’s degree in any field from a recognised university is required.
• To apply for the NMAT test, you must have a graduation grade point average of at least 50%.
• There is no maximum age limit for taking the NMAT 2022 test.
• To fill out the NMAT application form, no prior job experience is necessary.
• Students in their last year of graduation can also apply for the test, as long as they can present their final mark sheet and provisional certificate at the time of enrollment.
• There is no limit to how many times a student may take the exam. Candidates may appear in each exam year a maximum of three times (including 2 retakes).

NAMT 2022 Application From

 NMAT Registration is the initial step toward admission to MBA programmes at NMIMS and other prestigious institutions. Every year, over 80000 people enrol for this exam. NMAT 2022 application forms will be available online in August 2022 at register.nmat.org, the official registration website. It is critical to understand the NMAT registration process in order to complete the application smoothly. The following are the steps to register for NMAT 2022:

• Visit register.nmat.org and establish a new user account by providing your name, valid email address, and phone number.
• Fill out the NMAT application form with your personal, academic, and job experience information, the courses for which you want to transmit your scores, and your ID proof information. Acceptance of the terms and conditions
• Select the colleges/business schools to which you wish to send your results. You may select as many colleges as you like from the list. However, an additional price of INR 300 is required for each new college after the first five choices.
• Upload a scanned copy of your most recent passport photo. The file should be no larger than 1 MB in size and in JPG/JPEG format.
• Online payment options include credit card, debit card, UPI, VISA card, net banking, Diners Club, and mobile wallets.
• Choose your preferred form of examination (test centre or home-based remote proctored). Only Indian citizens would be eligible to arrange NMAT exams at test centres.
• Upload your government ID for picture identification in this phase. Take a snapshot of your ID using your smartphone or camera and save it to your computer. Please upload the following picture to the Examity Scheduling System: Choose up to three security questions from the drop-down menu. Remember your responses to the security questions since one of them will be asked throughout the authentication procedure.
• To plan your NMAT 2022 exam, choose the appropriate day and time zone. Candidates in India should select the UTC+05:30 time zone.
• Enter your entire name and then your first and last names again. Make sure you type it accurately because it will be needed for authentication on exam day.

NMAT 2022 Application Fees

Particulars	NMAT Application Fee
NMAT Registration (regular fee)	INR 2300 + applicable taxes
NMAT Late Registration	INR 2800 + applicable taxes
NMAT Retake Fee	INR 2300 + applicable taxes
NMAT Reschedule Fee	INR 1200 + applicable taxes
Choosing B-schools apart from the first five	INR 300 per B-school + applicable taxes

NMAT 2022 Exam Pattern

According to the NMAT Exam Pattern 2022, the exam paper will be divided into three sections (LR, Quant, and Language Skills), each with 36 questions. Examine the most recent exam pattern as part of establishing a solid preparation approach.

• It is only available in English.
• NMAT is administered in two modes: home-based remote proctored mode and online CBT mode at exam centres in 68 major cities throughout India.
• 108 multiple-choice questions The NMAT test has no descriptive questions.
• Language Skills, Quantitative Aptitude, and Logical Reasoning are the three parts.
• There is one mark provided for each correct response, and there is no negative grading for wrong or unanswered questions.
• Two hours (120 minutes). In addition, the NMAT test has a sectional time restriction.
• The following table shows the division of questions and time for the NMAT 2022 test by section:

Sections	Number of questions	Time Limit (in minutes)	Marks (Scaled Score)
Language Skills	36	28	12-120
Quantitative Skills	36	52	12-120
Logical Reasoning	36	40	12-120
Total	108	120	36-360

NMAT 2022 Syllabus

NMAT Exam Section	NMAT Syllabus Topics
NMAT Language Skills	Reading Comprehension, Para Jumbles, Sentence Completion, Idioms & Phrases, Antonyms & Synonyms, Error Detection, Word Usage
NMAT Quantitative Skills	Arithmetic- Profit & Loss, Time & Work, Time Speed & Distance, Mixtures, Ratio & Proportion, Percentage, Averages Data Interpretation- Caselets, Tabular DI, DI sets based on Charts and Graphs Geometry & Mensuration- Lines & Angles, Circles, Triangles, Polygons, Area & Volume of 2D and 3D figures Algebra- Quadratic Equations, Series, Inequalities, Functions, Surds & Indices Others- Numbers, Probability, Trigonometry, Logarithms, Data Sufficiency
NMAT Logical Reasoning	Syllogisms, Puzzles, Critical Reasoning, Blood Relations, Coding-Decoding, Statement & Assumption, Inference, Seating Arrangement, Ranking, Direction sense test

NMAT 2022: Previous Year Exam Analysis

NMAT is less difficult than the CAT and XAT tests. The NMAT 2021 test was somewhat challenging, with a few difficult problems in each area. Previous year’s NMAT test analysis is provided here to assist NMAT 2022 candidates in understanding the main themes, difficulty level of questions, and good efforts. This is critical in order to prepare for the exam’s requirements while avoiding superfluous questions.

The Language Skills section’s difficulty level was greater than in 2020. Reading Comprehension questions were more challenging than Verbal Ability questions, accounting for 33.33 percent of the total.

Logical Reasoning was the simplest, with 19 questions from verbal reasoning subjects and 17 from nonverbal reasoning topics such as Input-Output, blood ties, ranking, seating arrangement, and so on.

Quant was the most difficult. DI accounted for 15-16 questions of the paper, with 12 questions from Arithmetic areas.

NMAT Section	Number of Questions	Distribution Of Questions	Difficulty Level	Good Attempts
Language Skills	36	3 RC Passages with 4 MCQs each 14 MCQs on Verbal Ability dominated by vocabulary, para jumbles, cloze test, and analogies	Moderate-Difficult	25-27
Logical Reasoning	36	19 MCQs on Verbal Reasoning 17 MCQs on Non-Verbal Reasoning	Easy-Moderate	29-31
Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation	36	15-16 MCQs on Data Interpretation 12 MCQs from Arithmetic 7-8 MCQs on Algebra, Geometry, Numbers, and Modern Maths	Moderate-Difficult	22-24
Overall	108	-	Moderate	78-84

NMAT 2022 Admit Card

NMAT 2022 Admit Card will be accessible for download on the official website- mba.com/nmat- within 24 hours after the conclusion of NMAT registration and exam schedule.

• After the NMAT application fee is paid, the authorities will provide a link to download the NMAT Admit Card to the candidate’s registered email address.
• Candidates can access their admission cards by entering their registration number and password.
• The NMAT Admit Card will include all pertinent information on the exam centre, exam schedule, reporting time, and exam day instructions.

NMAT Exam Centers 2022

The NMAT 2022 exam will be held at 73 test centres across 68 cities in India. In addition, the exam will only be proctored online in four other countries: Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal. The following is a list of NMAT 2022 test cities organised by region:

egion	NMAT Exam Cities
North	Agra, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Delhi, Faridabad, Gurugram, Noida, Jammu, Kanpur, Lucknow, Noida, Patiala, Varanasi, Ludhiana, Panipat, Jhansi, Gorakhpur, Ghaziabad
West	Ajmer, Aurangabad, Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, Pune, Pilani, Surat, Vadodara, Jalgaon, Kolhapur
South	Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Coimbatore, Manipal, Madurai, Mangalore, Mysore, Vijayawada, Tiruchirapalli, Thiruvananthapuram, Vizag
Central	Bhilai, Gwalior, Ujjain, Bilaspur, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Raipur
East	Bhubaneswar, Durgapur, Dhanbad, Guwahati, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong, Rourkela, Siliguri

NMAT 2022 Preparation Books

NMAT Section	Name of the Book	Author/ Publisher
Quantitative Skills	Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations	R S Aggarwal
	How to Prepare for QA for CAT	Arun Sharma
	Quantitative Aptitude for MBA Entrance Exams	Abhijit Guha
	Data Interpretation for CAT	Nishit K Sinha
	Quantum CAT	S K Verma
Language Skills	Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension	Ajay Singh
	Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT	Nishit K Sinha
	Word Power Made Easy	Norman Lewis
	How to Prepare for VARC for CAT	Arun Sharma
Logical Reasoning	Analytical Reasoning	M K Pandey

NMAT 2022 Result

GMAC will issue the NMAT 2022 Result in the form of a scorecard following the completion of the test.

• Candidates will be able to obtain their scorecards using the NMAT username and password they created when they registered.
• The candidate’s name, date of birth, application number, overall and sectional scaled scores will be included on the NMAT 2022 Scorecard.
• NMAT results will be valid for one year from the date of publication.

MBA colleges accepting NMAT scores: 

NMAT exam scores are accepted by some of the NMAT accepting Colleges in India, including university affiliated MBA colleges such as NMIMS, ICFAI, Jindal Global University, and for Specialized Programs offered by well-known private B-schools such as SPJIMR and TAPMI, as well as autonomous MBA colleges such as SOIL Gurgaon.

ICFAI Business School Hyderabad, as well as ICFAI University’s other eight B-schools in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, and Bangalore, accept NMAT test marks. According to the NMAT test protocol, GMAC, the NMAT exam administering authority, sends free NMAT scores to five chosen MBA institutions. As a result, when applying for NMAT 2022, you must choose five desired MBA institutions from the list of MBA colleges accepting NMAT scores.

MBA college	Programmes Offered	Admission Status 2023
SOIL - School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon	PGPM, PGDM	Opening Soon
SDA Bocconi Asia Center, Mumbai	International Master in Business	Opening Soon
ITM Navi Mumbai: ITM Group of Institutions	MBA/PGDM	Opening Soon
MASTERS' UNION SCHOOL OF BUSINESS	PGDM	Opening Soon
Mody University School of Business, Jaipur	MBA/PGDM	Opening Soon
ICFAI IBS Dehradun, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Gurgaon Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune	MBA/PGPM	Opening Soon
Jindal Global Business School – Sonepat, Delhi/NCR	MBA/PGDM	Opening Soon
HBS, Hyderabad	MBA (Dual Specialization)	Opening Soon

Other MBA colleges accepting NMAT score include: 

MBA college/University	Programmes Offered	Admission Status 2023
BSE Institute Ltd, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad	PGDM, MBA	Opening Soon
Shiv Nadar MBA: School of Management and Entrepreneurship Greater Noida	PGDM	Opening Soon
WOXSEN Hyderabad: WOXSEN School of Business	MBA	Opening Soon
Amity University, Noida (Delhi NCR)	MBA	Opening Soon
Thapar School of Management, Mohali	MBA	Opening Soon
UPES Dehradun	MBA	Opening Soon
BML Munjal University, BMU Gurgaon	MBA	Opening Soon
GSIB Visakhapatnam: Gitam School of International Business	MBA (Dual Specialization)	Opening Soon
Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University,	MBA	Opening Soon
Bennett University Greater Noida, Delhi NCR	Global MBA	Opening Soon

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Has NMAT 2022 registration started?

NMAT 2022 registration will begin on August 3, 2021. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) administers the NMAT, a university-level management admission test, every year.

2. Can I crack NMAT in 6 months?

The NMAT preparation period of 6 months is more than enough to pass the exam. Before beginning the NMAT preparation process, the following guidelines should be followed: As long as you have enough NMAT test preparation time, look over and grasp the NMAT exam format.

3. How many times is NMAT conducted in a year?

The national level admission exam, NMAT, is given once a year throughout a certain period of time. The NMAT by GMAC score is based on applicants’ performance in three sections: Language Skills, Quantitative Skills, and Logical Reasoning.

4. Is there NMAT in October 2022?

GMAC, on the other hand, has yet to release specifics. Last year, the exam was administered over a 74-day period beginning on October 14.

5. Does NMAT 2022 have negative marking?

No negative marking: There is no negative marking penalty in the NMAT 2022 test format. As there is no negative marking, you can utilise your calculated estimate instead of skipping a question on the question paper and mark the answer without worry of a penalty for a bad response.

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