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ABHINAV PRAKASH 29th Jul, 2019
Each exam is tough whether it is cat xat mat cmat tissnet snap and nmat and in all these you need to practice a lot in quants and reasoning and verbal section by solving previous years question and by giving mock test you can get aware about exam pattern and your strength and weakness in mock test.

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Ankur Dubey Student Expert 28th Jul, 2019
Hello

If you go by question level and their answers, the easiest is MAT . If you want to know from easy to tough exams as per my understanding with increasing toughness , i.e from easiest to toughest the exams as as below:

MAT, IBSAT, CMAT, NMAT, SNAP, IIFT, CAT, XAT.

But Don,t think in terms of easiest or toughest. Actually most of tests provide results in terms of percentile of marks. So even with an average exam in CAT you may get good percentile as the questions are very tough and even having very good exam and good score in MAT , it will not help you to get admission to any good college. In that reference most useful exam is CAT and then XAT.

CAT covers almost all colleges except colleges under NMIMS , Symbiosis, XLRI, IIFT and some other colleges . But it is the most accepted test score and even with an average score of 80 to 85 percentile you may get into good college.

XAT score is used for XLRI and other colleges of their group. Some other colleges also now a days accept XAT score along with CAT score.

NMAT is for colleges under NMIMS at Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Indore. Some other colleges like ICFAI, VIT and other colleges also take admission through NMAT score.

SNAP score helps you to get admission in various MBA programs of Symbiosis University.

IIFT is for Indian institute of foreign trade which is very good college.

CMAT helps you to get admission in very few good college in Mumbai but very high score is needed.

MAT score is not worth taking admission in any top colleges and admission to only average college can be obtained by MAT.

I hope it will help you
Good luck.....
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