MICAT 2024: Registration, Exam Dates, Eligibility, Syllabus

December 15, 2023May 6, 2024 Career Mantra

What is MICAT 2024?

The MICAT Admissions Test 2024 (MICAT 2024) is an online entrance test for the MICA’s flagship course Post Graduate Diploma in Management-Communications (PGDM-C). The MICAT test is performed in two steps. MICAT I takes place in December and MICAT II takes place in February. Registration for both the tests is conducted separately and the applicants must appear in one of the two exams. The MICAT 2024-25 review and registration schedule is scheduled to be announced shortly.

Highlights

Name of Exam	Admissions Test 2024
Mode of application	Online
Mode of exam	Online
Offered courses	Post Graduate Diploma in Management-Communications (PGDM-C)
Official website	www.mica.ac.in

MICAT 2024 Important Dates

Event	Tentative Dates
MICAT 1 registration starting	The first week of October 2024
MICAT 1 registration ending	The third week of November 2024
MICAT 1 Admit card release	The first week of December 2024
MICAT 1	The first week of December 2024
MICAT 1 result	Last week of December 2024
MICAT 2 registration starting	The third week of November 2024
MICAT 2 registration ending	The second week of January 2024
MICAT 2 Admit card release	The third week of January 2024
MICAT 2	Last week of January 2024
MICAT 2 result	The second week of February 2024
GE / PI shortlist	February to March 2024
Result	Last week of March 2024

Selection Process

Step 1: Candidates have to take CAT/ XAT / GMAT exam.

Step 2: Those who have taken any of the abovementioned exams, are eligible for MICAT. In MICAT, all candidates are evaluated as follows:

Section A: Psychometric Research

Section B: Verbal Capacity, Quantitative Capacity and Data Interpreting, General Awareness; Divergent and Convergent Thought

Section C: Descriptive Testing

Step 3: GE & PI: Applicants who qualify for CAT / XAT / GMAT & MICAT I and II shall appear for both Group Exercise (GE) & Personal Interview (PI) applications.

Preparation of the shortlist of GE & PI candidates

Section A of the MICAT, that is. Psychometric evaluation is a qualifying exam.

Those who qualify on the Psychometric, their relative output on the CAT / XAT / GMAT will be treated as a minimum cut off basis.

Those who satisfy Section A on the basis of CAT / XAT / GMAT results will be evaluated under Section B of the MICAT.

Subsequently, candidates who qualify for Section B will be judged for their results in Section C.

Those who clear sections A, B and C will be called to GE / PI in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.

Admission Procedure

Step 1: MICAT

Applicants must fill out the application form on the official website to apply for MICAT and pay Rs 1965 online as a test fee. After successful registration, applicants will receive their MICA ID and MICA password via email. This MICA ID shall be used for all possible communications and login purposes.

Step 2: Admission Card

Admission cards for MICAT 2024-25 will be given to candidates who have successfully registered for the test. Applicants will be allowed to download their admission cards from the official website.

Step 3: test

MICAT is held twice in a single period of entry. Applicants who clear the Psychometric Test will be tested on the rest of the criteria and the review rounds.

Step 4: Results

The MICAT 2024 result will be published online on the official website. Test users can verify their scores by using their login credentials. The result will be that selected applicants for GE / PI will be invited to different MICA campuses.

Step 5: Group Exercise / Personal Interview

The shortlist of GE / PI candidates will be based on their CAT / XAT / GMAT score and MICAT I and MICAT II ratings.

MICAT 2024 Exam Centres

MICAT 2024 is being conducted in nearly 50 cities across India. Check the table below for cities where MICAT 2024-25 exams are scheduled to take place.

Ahmedabad
Ghaziabad
Mumbai
Aizawl
Gorgeon
Muzaffarnagar
Ajmer
Gwalior
Nagpur
Aligarh
Guwahati
Noida
Allahabad
Hyderabad
Panjim
Bareilly
Indore
Patna
Bangalore
Jabalpur
Pune
Bhopal
Jaipur
Raipur
Bhubaneswar
Jamshedpur
Rajkot
Chandigarh
Jammu
Ranchi
Chennai
Kanpur
Surat
Dehradun
Kochi
Trivandrum
Delhi
Kolkata
Udaipur
Dhanbad
Lucknow
Vadodara
Faridabad
Meerut
Varanasi
Gandhinagar
Navi Mumbai
Visakhapatnam

MICAT 2024 Exam Pattern

The MICAT 2024 test is performed in online mode. The question paper consists of approximately 94-105 questions to be answered within 2.5 hours. The format of the questions in MICAT is both objective and descriptive. Learn more about the test pattern below:

The Question Paper shall be divided into three sections:

Section A:

Psychometric Research (36 questions)

Section B:

Verbal Ability (25 questions), Quantitative Ability(25 questions), General Knowledge (24) and Diversity-Convergent Reasoning (30)

Section C:

Descriptive Testing (4)

Note: 1 mark will be awarded for each correct answers and -0.25 mark will be deducted for in correct answers.

Some key points;

Section A (Psychometric Test) is a qualifying test. Applicants will be assessed under Section B and Section C only if Section A is cleared.
Those who clear Section A and Section B will be judged under Section C.
If an applicant fails to apply for a section, the following section will not be assessed.
Applicants who qualify for Sections A, B and C will be chosen for Community Exercise and Personal Interview.

MICAT 2024 Syllabus

The MICAT syllabus shall be prescribed, Ahmedabad. Since MICAT is being conducted for admission to the advanced programme, i.e. PGDM in Correspondence, Syllabus and MICAT test trends vary from other MBA entrance exams. Apart from Verbal Skill, Quantitative Skill, General Knowledge and Reasoning, the MICAT exam involves Psychometric Testing and Descriptive Testing. Learn more about the MICAT programme below.

The MICAT question paper shall be divided into three parts. Of the three parts. Below is the syllabus for all three parts of the exam

Section A: Psychometric Research

Psychometric testing is the first part of the query report. This segment is essentially a personality test that measures the candidate’s reasoning process and ability to solve problems.

Applicants must first clear this section in order to be able to assess their success in the second and third sections.

This portion is generally divided into three sets of questions.

In this segment, two questions are posed in the form of claims that must be evaluated and evaluated on the basis of their closeness to their personality.

The third question is a collection of answers to be measured from 1 to 6 in the circumstances.

Section B: Verbal Ability, Quantitative Ability, General Knowledge, Divergence-Convergent Reasoning

Section B syllabus covers the same topics as other MBA entrance exams, namely, Verbal Capacity, Quantitative Capacity, General Knowledge and Divergent-Convergent Reasoning (also known as logical reasoning).