A Pearson VUE team from the USA was in Mumbai today. They are the guys that NMIMS University has contracted out the computer-based NMAT to. Their agenda was to create awareness about computer-based testing (CBT) and resolve perceived myths surrounding it. PaGaLGuY caught up with the team comprising Kathleen Gialluca – Senior Research Scientist, Fiona […]

(Photo credit: Michael Surran) Bucking the trend of marginal increases in other MBA entrance tests, 27% more candidates will take Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) University’s NMIMS Aptitude Test (NMAT 2012) this year compared to last year’s NMAT 2011. The registrations for NMAT 2012, which closed on October 10, 2011, clocked 50,800 candidates […]

First it was the business schools of the Indian Institutes of Technology that scrapped the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) in favour of the Common Admission Test (CAT). Then came Delhi University’s Faculty of Management Studies. Are more expected to go the CAT way and is all this a plan to get into a single-test […]

Last week, we worked with Aditya Dipankar from the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to review the test interface of the Common Admissions Test (CAT). This week, we get Aditya to analyse the test-interface for the other major computer-based test, the Narse Monjee Management Aptitude Test (NMAT) from a design and ease-of-use point of […]

Pearson VUE, the testing agency that will conduct Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai’s NMAT exam, today released a demo test and an orientation video on its website. “The demo test and video are designed to familiarise NMAT applicants with the test process including the test interface functionality,” said a Pearson VUE spokesman. […]

This looks like the beginnings of one-upmanship contest in computer-based exam awesomeness. While the CAT grapples with getting the basics write, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies’ (NMIMS) entrance exam NMAT is offering a choice of three attempts to aspiring candidates. The best score of the three attempts will be considered. Besides giving the candidates […]

An interesting bit of information came to light during our conversation with the IIFT Registrar yesterday. The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), which has its campuses at New Delhi and Kolkata too would have made its entrance test computer-based had it not been for the collapse of the system during the controversial CAT 2009. […]

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, NMIMS, Mumbai has successfully completed its online entrance examination, NMAT-2010 second day in a row, claimed the institute today. The test is being conducted at 51 centres in 19 cities across India by Pearson VUE testing agency. According to a Press statement issued by the NMAT Admission Committee on […]

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai announced its decision to use computer-based testing for the Narsee Monjee Aptitude Test (NMAT) back in October 2009. The institute has let the press in on a few more details about the entrance exam. The examination will take place over a ten-day window from January 30, 2010 […]

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) today formally announced their joining the technology bandwagon by taking their admission test NMAT computer-based. Furthermore, the institute plans to take the test international by organizing it in Australia, UK and 12 Asian countries apart from in India. At the same time, NMIMS has steeply escalated the cost […]