What to Do After CMAT Result? - Important Things

Every year lakhs of MBA aspirants take the CMAT test to seek admission to premier management institutes. The CMAT result 2025 will be announced in March 2025, and all the participating colleges will start calling the candidates for the further selection process. After the results are declared, the colleges will release their shortlists for the selection process, which varies for all of them.

Conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the Common Management Admission Test is a national-level MBA entrance exam for admissions to the MBA/PGDM programs of business schools. Although the selection process of every college is different, the basis of selection is the CMAT cutoff 2025 itself.

There is often a lot of confusion among students regarding the events occurring after the announcement of CMAT results 2025. Detailed information on the events after the CMAT result is announced has been provided for the candidate's reference.

Important Things to Do After CMAT Results

Entrance examinations are often just the first step of a lengthy and complicated admission process. Colleges accept entrance examination scores but at the same time assess the students on various other parameters and tests. Therefore, aspirants should always be aware of what the admission process involves after any entrance exam; otherwise, they might lag behind other candidates because these entrance examinations are often competitive.

Just like any other MBA entrance exam, CMAT 2025 candidates have to do certain activities even after the CMAT examination is over to secure admission to the college/university of their choice. The important tasks to be accomplished by candidates after CMAT results are mentioned below.

1. Check the Website Regularly

All the information regarding CMAT that is important for the students is provided on the official website, i.e. (cmat.nta.nic.in). Therefore, students must keep track of every minor to a significant announcement on the website and release any notice, document, or list of any kind.

In addition, all kinds of information regarding the further admission process are also released on the official website itself. If students fail to do so, they might miss such information and announcements regarding CMAT and fall behind in the admission/selection process.

2. Preparation for the Selection Process

The CMAT selection process 2025 varies from college to college. Still, students have to appear for further rounds of assessment before they can secure admission to a business school of their choice. These rounds mainly include the Writing Aptitude Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), and Personal Interview (PI), and colleges may test applicants on all or some of these parameters.

Therefore, a student’s chances of securing admission depend on their performance in all these assessment rounds and not just their CMAT scores. Thus students should start their preparations for the selection process as soon as they get their CMAT results/scores.

3. Keep Track of Cutoff Lists

To secure admission, students need to clear the CMAT cutoff that the college demands from its applicants. CMAT cutoffs are released after the declaration of the CMAT results, and every college releases the cutoff for admission to their institute separately. Students should keep track of these cutoff lists released by colleges and universities, especially the ones which are the prospective institutes where a student wants to seek admission. A student will be eligible to sit for the next round of the selection process only if they have cleared the CMAT cutoff for that particular college's MBA/PGDM program.

What To Do If You Did Not Qualify CMAT 2025?

As we know, every year, the volume of CMAT candidates is more than tens of lakhs of students, and being able to secure a better score than the majority of these candidates is not an easy task. Students may not qualify for the CMAT or obtain a score decent enough to crack the cutoff list of their dream college for many reasons. Nonetheless, students who do not have a decent CMAT score also have quite a few options available to them for MBA admissions.

Students can seek MBA admissions based on many factors like personal interviews, university-level entrance exams, state-level entrance exams, other national-level entrance exams, etc. Students without a decent CMAT score should follow the instructions given below.

1. Apply for Direct MBA Admissions

Obtaining a high entrance exam score is not easy, and not every candidate can do the same. Students may prepare rigorously for an entrance exam but can still fail to secure a high percentile score. If an MBA aspirant cannot crack any MBA entrance exams like CMAT, they should choose to apply for direct MBA admissions to MBA/PGDM courses. Many reputed private management institutes reserve a certain amount of seats for admission through the management quota. Students can apply for admissions through the management quota or seek admissions based on their scores in their undergraduate courses (merit-based). Here is a list of MBA colleges offering direct admissions:

MBA Colleges with Direct Admissions

Institute Name	Course(s) Offered
Amity Global B-School (Amity University)	MBA/PGDM
Birla Global University	MBA/PGDM
CII School of Logistics, Amity University	MBA/PGDM
GIBS	MBA/PGDM
IIBS	MBA/PGDM
Mody University School of Business	MBA/PGDM
O P Jindal Global University	MBA/PGDM
Regenesys Institute of Management	MBA/PGDM
School of Inspired Leadership - SOIL	MBA/PGDM
School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Shiv Nadar University	MBA/PGDM
UPES School of Business: UPES University	MBA/PGDM

2. Prepare for Other Entrance Exams

If a student has appeared for CMAT and was unable to give their best performance and crack the exam, they should not give up hope. Students should also appear for other MBA entrance exams, like CAT, NMAT, GMAT, XAT, etc. There are a lot of benefits to appearing for multiple MBA entrance exams,

• Students benefit from the preparation of different kinds of MBA entrance exams and can use the knowledge from the preparation of one while preparing for a different entrance exam.
• The chances of securing a decent score in one of the entrance exams taken increase.
• Students gain a lot of experience while taking a particular entrance exam which they can utilize in their next entrance exam and boost their performance.

Students should remember that securing admission to an MBA/PGDM program of a reputed management institute or business school is difficult. Not everyone is capable enough to do the same. Therefore, students should be prepared to the fullest and confident enough to crack an exam like CMAT and have a successful selection process throughout.

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