It is conducted 4 times in a year (February, May, September and December) and an aspirant can take it as many times as they want.

The test checks candidate’s ability in 5 sections (Language Ability, Intelligence & Critical Reasoning, Mathematical Skills, Data Analysis and Sufficiency and Indian & Global Environment).

Among the sections, the Intelligence and Critical Reasoning tends to become a tedious section for many candidates due to the inherent tricky nature of the section.

To ease out the burden of students, we have compiled the best online resources to be consulted before starting MAT preparation.

What ‘Intelligence and Critical Reasoning’ Section is all about?

Before moving on to the preparation tips, let us take a look at the analysis of this section.

Like all other sections in MAT, this section also features 40 Multiple Choice Questions. Ideally, this section should be completed in 30 or less than 30 minutes. Unlike Mathematics, this section is pure logic based, rather than being a formula based section.

Questions in Intelligence and Critical Reasoning section come from following topics –
 

Ideally, an attempt of 25-28 questions in this section coupled with a 90% of accuracy results is a good score.

Best Online Sources for Preparation:

 Online Coaching and Lectures

The first option for online preparation is online coaching. Many successful and experience coaching houses provide online coaching material for MAT preparation.

Students can enroll for any coaching they desire and can start preparing for this section as well as other sections of MAT exam.

Some major coaching institutes that provide online coaching specialized for MAT are T.I.M.E., IMS, Career Launcher, TCYonline, Testfunda and MBAuniverse.

Apart from these, aspirants can also access some free lectures on various platforms.

These are very useful for those who have some knowledge of concepts and want to give an extra edge to their preparation.

Some of these free resources are: YouTube channels of Dinesh Miglani, Endeavour Classes, Unacademy, Perfect Scores and Takshzila. The videos from these channels are really handy and can prove to be very useful in your preparation.

 Online Mock Tests

Mock tests have become an integral part of preparation for any competitive test, and so for MAT as well.

Taking a Mock Test will provide you identical conditions like the actual exam, like 200 questions and 150 minutes, and this will help you to strengthen your preparation the best way.

Taking 4-5 mock tests will help you know how to tackle the Intelligence and Critical Reasoning section of MAT. And will also tell you some basic things like How much time you take to complete this section, how many attempts you make and what is your accuracy? This will help you make a proper plan for the actual exam.

Therefore, it is necessary that you purchase a national level mock test series for MAT and prepare it thoroughly.

Test series of TIME, IMS, Hitbullseye, Oliveboard, Testfunda and Career Launcher are very good for MAT.
 Mobile Applications

Smartphones can do a lot of things today, and definitely can help you to prepare for MAT. There are some mobile applications available which can surely help you crack this section of MAT.

Some very good apps that you can use for your MAT preparation are – ‘MAT 2017 Management Exam Prep (by Youth4work)’, ‘AIMA MAT Exam Preparation (by Readwhere.com)’ and ’MAT Exam (by Sana Edutech)’.

All these apps specifically target MAT exam preparation. However, there are many other applications for Reasoning and Critical thinking, these might not be useful directly for MAT, but can help you increase your level of proficiency towards this subject.

 Online Forums and Websites

There are a lot of online forums and portals that keep on posting free content for aspirants and can really provide some good tips and tricks to counter this section.

You can use prep.youth4work.com, hitbullseye.com, eduwhere.in, Simplylearnt and testpractice.net to access some free tests and notes which can help you in your preparation.

Online forums like Pagalguy.com, InsideIIM and Totalgadha can be of good use to share and clear your doubts.

Along with all these, you can access MAT practice papers created by Collegedunia.

Intelligence and Critical Reasoning is an important and high scoring section for MAT. With ample amount of practice, you can ace this section easily and can attain a high percentile. As mentioned above, there are a lot of online tools available, which you can use to ace your preparation. Use them wisely and prepare well. Good Luck!