Scoring the top score of 800 in Management Aptitude Test (MAT) may not be very difficult, if you follow what the earlier MAT toppers advise you to do and make sure that you meticulously prepare the strategy to crack it.
MAT 2017 exam as paper based test is on May 7. Only 4 days are left to your MAT exam day. Now it all depends upon last minutes tips coming from MAT toppers that can help you crack the MAT exam on May 7 with perfect 800 score.
MAT scoring pattern is different from other MBA entrance exams. There are 160 questions divided in 4 sections scores of which are taken into account to calculate your percentile in May MAT 2017 exam. Each question carries maximum 1 raw mark and after scaling your MAT raw score goes up many times. This score is converted to highest composite score of 800. Roughly it means that your 1 question will carry 5 marks in your final composite score. Accordingly 160 marks are converted to 800 marks. On the basis of this score, you will get your percentile.
Understand with example
If you write MAT May 2017 exam on May 7 and your composite score is between 765 to 775 out of 800, you are supposed to get a percentile between 99 to 99.5.
If you score a raw score of around 70 in 4 sections of MAT, it implies that after taking into account the negative marking of ¼ your 70 marks would become more than 350 or so. This composite score will get you a percentile of about 90.
If you score around 85 or 95 raw marks, your composite score of more than 750 would get you a percentile somewhere around 99. According to the toppers, ‘If you are someone preparing for CAT, MAT is a piece of cake.What you need to target would be speed and accuracy’
Attempt more MAT Mocks : Tips from MAT toppers
Ashish Patial – 800/800 in MAT
Ashish Patial who hails from Chandigarh and who scored 800/800 score in MAT with 99.99 percentile shares key tips to score top score in May MAT 2017 exam-
- MAT aspirants must know their strengths and weaknesses.
- The need is to practice mocks with good speed and accuracy and must know how to choose and prioritise the MAT exam sections in order of preference
- Leave your ego outside the examination area
- You may follow this strategy to attempt May MAT exam 2017 or devise your own strategy to maximise scores.
Ashish was not very good in English, so whatever, he had in front of him, he read it every-day which ultimately helped him increase his speed in English and improved his vocabulary base. This resulted in high score in English in MAT exam.
Karan Sharma – 800/800 in MAT
Karan Sharma who also belongs to Chandigarh has scored 800 out of 800 marks in MAT exam. Sharing his success mantra Karan says “Hard work and consistency have been my driving force”
MAT exam has no set syllabus. So cramming is not of much help. Since the test mainly aims at judging the aptitude of a student, it is the speed, accuracy gained through Mocks and sample papers that can help you get the high score in MAT exam.
Ankit Kumar – 800/800 in MAT
With an aim to get into JBIMS Mumbai, Ankit Kumar of Greater Noida cracked MAT exam with a score of 800 out of 800 in the 1st attempt. Ankit is a fresher and was studying in the final semester of 5 year B.Tech-M.Tech in mechanical engineering at Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida.
Apart from JBIMS, Ankit also aimed at getting into Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE) Mumbai.
Sharing key tips to crack MAT with high score Ankit advises to practice more Mocks, analyse mistakes and diarise not to repeat them.
Ketan Anand: 792/800 in MAT exam
Ketan Anand from Ambala was working with his father in the family business. This led his interest to corporate sector and drove him to go for MBA.
The very first thing which Ketan did was to clear his basics. With the conceptual clarity he started taking more and more Mocks. According to Ketan ‘I wrote plenty of mocks and spent time analyzing the same. Writing the mock tests helped me increase my speed of solving the questions and also I was able to identify my weak areas. I kept taking mocks and converting my weak areas into stronger ones.’
For the English section in MAT exam, Ketan focused mainly on grammar portion. Ketan used to read business magazines, newspapers and solve reading comprehensions too.
In his view self-study is best for MAT exam although joining a coaching class also helps and acts as a positive factor in your preparation.
Key preparation tips for MAT exam
-Since there is option in MAT exam to choose between paper based MAT or Computer based MAT, Ketan advises the students to opt for paper-based test. In PBT MAT exam you can see all the questions at once. Marking the answers on an OMR sheet is better than marking the answers using mouse.
- Write as many mocks as you can and analyze them well.
- Make a wise choice of questions. This will help you to manage each section well.
- Be accurate and prioritize your questions. It is good to attempt those questions first which are from your strong areas and only afterwards, you should choose such questions which appear difficult to you.
- It is not necessary to attempt GK questions. The section is not taken into account to calculate your percentile and merit score.
MAT toppers are unanimous that the moderate difficulty level MAT exam pattern is based on the conventional MAT syllabus with easy and common topics in all its 5 sections. According to MAT toppers, if you solve more and more MAT sample papers and past MAT question papers in next 4 days, you can get a high score in the paper pen based MAT 2017 May exam.
In view of the MAT toppers, MAT entrance exam 2017 on May 7 is not expected to be a difficult one. To score high in MAT entrance exam, MAT toppers who have scored 99 or 99.99 percentile in past MAT exams, advise the May MAT 2017 aspirants to solve more and more MAT sample papers.
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