Rajasthan is now among the first five states accepting the Common Management Aptitude Test (CMAT). The move is expected to ease the burden of students appearing in different management tests.

The CMAT, a national-level entrance exam for management courses across the country, will replace the Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test. “The state government has given its acceptance to AICTE for conducting the CMAT,” said Vipin Chandra Sharma, principal secretary, technical education.

As per the declaration of the state government, there will be no Rajasthan Management Aptitude Test afterwards and every student will have to appear at the CMAT for admission in management colleges.

The exam will be online and it is going to start in 2012. The process of filling up of forms has already been initiated and the exam will be conducted in February 2012.

However, the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has confirmed 35,000 online registrations, in which more than 8,000 registrations are from Rajasthan only.

“Earlier in 2010, we have found 10,000 registrations in RMAT,” said GK Tyagi, state convener for the CMAT.

Sources said as the state was facing the difficulty to manage the RMAT, that’s why it immediately approved the CMAT.

Basically, the CMAT will be held online. An all-India and state-level merit list will be prepared for admission to MBA and PGDM-level management programmes in the AICTE-approved institutions.

The CMAT is an attempt by the AICTE to ease out the burden of students aspiring to pursue the management education and had to go from one city to another to appear in several management examinations.

“This is a single test on which admission will be made in the AICTE-approved management colleges throughout the state,” said an official of the AICTE.