JMET

The JMET or Joint Management Entrance Test took place on December 14, 2008. JMET is held to select candidates for the post-graduate programmes in management offered by the six IITs (Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai and Roorkee) and IISc Bangalore. Almost 37 across India organized the entrance test examination. JMET is one of the toughest management exams in India. The difficulty level of exam is not surprising considering the fact; one is trying to get into topmost engineering institutes. All the six IITs are crème a la crème. The eligibility criteria was Bachelor's degree in any discipline of Engineering or technology or its equivalent or a Master's degree in any discipline from a recognized Institute or University with at least 60 per cent marks.

JMET is quite different from CAT exam in few matters. If we talk section wise then DI section of JMET is not reasoning based as is the case with CAT which is reasoning as well as calculation based. JMET also place strong emphasis on basics of grammar. Vocabulary and punctuation is also checked thoroughly. JMET involves concepts related to higher mathematics which is not the case with CAT exam. JMAT reserves a complete section for reasoning unlike CAT. CAT exam has more stress on RC section but JMET has relatively easy questions in RCs. Passages are also quite short. JMET 2009 was of three hour duration. Earlier exams were of two year duration. The questions were also reduced in comparison to previous year paper.