Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) Mumbai has made some major announcement regarding NMAT 2011, the entrance exam for the MBA institute which will start from October 2010. NMAT, which went computer based since last year, has decided to give three chances to the test takers. So the candidate can attempt thrice for NMAT 2011.

Talking about the development, NMIMS mentions, "The test will be conducted in a time frame of three months starting from October 2010, allowing choice of two Retakes to the students, with the best of three scores being considered for admissions to MBA Core, MBA-Capital market, MBA-Banking, MBA-Acturial Science, MBA-Pharmaceutical Management, MBA-HR, PGDM and EPGDBM programs at NMIMS." The online registration for NMAT 2011 will start from Wednesday, September 8, 2010.

Talking about the new format of NMAT, Dr Rajan Saxena, Vice Chancellor, NMIMS says, "This year, we are graduating to the next level of computer-based testing, which will provide convenience to the students not only in terms of selection of the date for the NMAT, but will also help them to improve upon their performance and hence improve their chances of success in NMIMS MBA programs. We believe that in today's times, the NMAT in its new format should empower the student to give his best performance for admission to our institution."

NMAT 2011 will be held in 18 centers in India at the cities of Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Cochin, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, New Delhi, Patna and Raipur.

The test will be administered by Pearson VUE, the testing company that had administered NMAT 2010 as well.

NMAT 2010 was held in a 10 day window starting from Saturday January 30, 2010 to Monday, February 8, 2010. The test was taken by approximately 40,000 candidates. The duration of NMAT is two hours and has three sections, Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning.

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