Masters of Business Administration (MBA) is considered to be the highest level course that is recommended for students who want to get into the practicality of the field. Most students are attracted to higher package and the status of MBA certificate holder.

Graduates today want to get into B-schools that are ranked high and set a goal that once done, take them into entrepreneurship. These B-schools offers tremendous opportunity for students to engage them into start-up.  However, MBA exams in India are not easy to pass, the require years of practice and fast grasping mind. Once cleared, student can get into any of the top management institutes and B-schools in India.

Before getting into the MBA world, there are certain facts that need to be known:

-Doing MBA is like horning your creative skills and able to understand practical things of business and certain field. For instance, if you have a creative mind and have an aptitude of advertising, then MBA in advertising will help you to dig into the industry and prepares you to sell in the industry.
-Don’t just get hooked up with fat packages offered by companies. It is the direct function of economic growth. During recession, even top B-schools in India find it difficult to get companies with high package.
-MBA exams in India are the first step to enter into the horizon. Every top B-school in India conducts its own entrance exam to qualify. Students need to prepare in hardcore and lacs of student attend the exam.

Some MBA exams are conducted at national and state level. Students can appear for both or any one depending on the eligibility criteria listed by the B-Schools.

Some National Level Common MBA Exams:

–CAT: Common Admission Test (CAT) is a national level test conducted by Indian Institute of Management (IIM), the scores of which is valid at other management institutes. The exam is the key to get into any of the 13 IIMs in India and is conducted in the month of November.  Candidate with 50% marks in graduation is eligible to appear for the test.

–XAT: Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) is conducted by Xavier Association of Management Institutes (XAMI) to get admission in graduate programs in management institutes. Top colleges that approve the score are: XLRI, XIME, GIM, SP Jain and XIMB. The entrance exam is conducted in the first week of January.

–SNAP: Institutes in India that are affiliated to Symbiosis University do accepts SNAP score. SNAP is the initial step in the admission process after which the students are required to submit applications in individual colleges and clear personal interaction and Writing Ability Test (WAT). SNAP test generally takes place in the month of December.

–MH-CET: The entrance exam is conducted under the guidance of Directorate of Technical Education passing after which students can seek admission in any of the top B-Schools in Maharashtra. It is a national level exam and is recognized by 80 institutes in Maharashtra. MH-CET is held during May-June.

–CMAT:  This is the national level exam for management programs approved by AICTE. Held twice every year in Feb and Sept, students have two chances to score better to get into top institute. Almost every management college in India approve the scores of CMAT.

–MAT: Management Aptitude Test is an entrance exam conducted for admission in Management colleges across India. Any B-School whether national or international can consider its score. This is the largest test of its kind and will continue to be the entry ticket to over 600 B-Schools across India.

Essential Areas of MBA Examination:

-Logical Reasoning: This is the part of MBA exam syllabus which requires basic knowledge of Math and Statistics.

-Data Interpretation: Given in the form of tables, charts and graphs, candidate need to interpret the information in given data.

-Verbal Reasoning: Verbal reasoning questions are designed to test the candidate’s ability to identify relationships within groups of words or sentences.

MBA Examination Pattern:

-Entrance exam is conducted in both online or written patterns with multiple-choice objective questions.
-The ratio of the number of questions to be answered within the time allotted, e.g. one has to answer 60 questions in 45 minutes.
-Algorithms are continuously redesigned and cannot be predicted the positive, neutral and negative marking weightage.

Preparing for MBA Exams:

-The main thing to consider while preparing for MBA exams in India is to know the pattern and the syllabus which keeps on changing year by year. It is essential to work on language and communication ability.
-Commerce and non-medical students who have optional math in school and college MUST take the subject, no matter how difficult they find it to be.
-Investing on well known MBA class way before the exam will be helpful to get mentally and practically prepared.
-Check out with seniors who have successfully done with MBA entrance exam and have got into top management institute.

If you have decided to get into any of the top B-Schools, then getting well-prepared for the entrance exam is your top priority and you need to be prepared well for it.

Pratish Amin