National Testing Agency (NTA) has invited applications for the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) 2025, the National Level Entrance Examination for admission to the Management Courses for the Academic Session 2025-26.

This Test facilitates AICTE affiliated/ Participating Institutions to select suitable graduate candidates for admission to the Management Courses in their Institutions.

The CMAT score is accepted by all AICTE- Approved Institutions/University Departments/ Constituent Colleges / Affiliated Colleges.

CMAT Structure

CMAT 2025 will be a three-hour entrance Examination in Computer Based Test (CBT) mode to be held on 25th January, 2025. It will have 20 questions from each of (i) Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation (ii) Logical Reasoning (iii) Language Comprehension (iv) General Awareness and (v) Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Medium of Question Paper will be English.

Each question carries 4 marks. For each incorrect response, 1 mark will be deducted from the total score. 

Eligibility

Applicant must be a citizen of India and must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline. Those appearing for the final year of Bachelor’s Degree, whose result will be declared before commencement of admission for academic year 2025-26, can also apply for CMAT-2025. There is no age restriction for appearing in CMAT-2025.

Application

Online Registration ca be done at https://exams.nta.ac.in/CMAT/ up to 09.50 pm on 13th December, 2024. Information Bulletin is also available there for downloading.

Application Fee

Application fee for Males of General category is Rs.2500/-. Application fee for females, Gen-EWS/ SC/ST/PwD /OBC-(NCL) and Third gender categories is Rs.1250/-

Application Fee can be deposited up to 11.50 pm on 14th December 2024, through the payment gateway using debit/credit cards, net banking or UPI.

Registered candidates can edit their particulars online in certain field during period between 15 December, 2024 and 17 December, 2024.

Announcement on the City of Examination will be made on 17 January 2025. Admit Card can be downloaded from the website on 20th January 2025.

The announcements related to display of recorded responses and provisional answer keys on the website for inviting challenges, declaration of result on NTA Website etc; will be made on the website at appropriate time.

Admissions

NTA has no role in counselling for admission to the Management Programmes. Candidates must apply separately to the desired CMAT-2025 participating Institutions with the CMAT Score 2025. Thereafter, Participating Institutions will release their respective cut off CMAT Scores which a candidate should meet to get qualified for admission to that particular Institution. Once qualified, the candidate will have to comply with the selection procedure of that particular Institution, which may comprise of Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI). The final selection of the candidate will be based on the candidate’s performance in GD & PI. 

Candidates should read the details of the admission process of each Participating Institute of CMAT-2025 on their respective websites.

For more information, visit https://exams.nta.ac.in/CMAT/