Nevil, MBA is a Post Graduation course and so you need to have a Bachelor's degree to be eligible for MBA. But there is IPMAT which is the entrance examination for admission to integrated 5 years Management course for which 12th is the highest qualification. Now if you want to know how to study MBA after 12th as in the route map, then you have to complete your Graduation in any discipline and secure a minimum aggregate of 50% in your Graduation. It is 50% for General Category and 45% for Reserved Categories. Now this is for CAT, which is the most common entrance examination for admission to Management Courses. CAT is an online entrance exam conducted in the month of November every year. CAT is an online examination of 3 hours duration.The questions in the exam will be of MCQ and TITA type totaling 100 questions. MCQ are multiple choice questions, for which candidates get multiple answer choices. Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark. However Type in the Answer questions are exempted from Negative Marking.

CAT exam paper can be Categorised into 3 parts:

Quantitative Ability

Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

The Verbal Ability section and Reading Comprehension has 34 Questions, Data interpretation-Logical Reasoning section has 32 MCQ questions and Quantitative Ability has 34 MCQ questions totalling up to 100 questions. Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark.

Now MAT is another entrance examination which is conducted both online and offline. This exam is conducted 4 times a year. You need to have a Bachelor's degree in any discipline to be eligible for MAT. Now Candidates in their final year are also eligible for appearing for MAT and such Candidates' admission is provisional based on their completion of Graduation. MAT is conducted during the months of February, May, September and December. Now, there is no minimum aggregate that you need to secure in your Graduation for appearing for MAT. But few MAT accepting Institutions, do have a certain aggregate and for that you need to check the official website of the Institution you are interested in. You can check the list of MBA Colleges accepting MAT score at our page: https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-mba-colleges-in-india-accepting-mat The validity of MAT score is 1 year. There is no upper age limit for appearing in MAT. But if you want to appear for MAT, you should have a fair idea of its exam pattern. It is an objective type question with MCQs.

Section                                     No.of Questions asked         Time Suggestion in Mins

Language Comprehension               40                                                30

Mathematical skills                            40                                                40

Data sufficiency & Analysis              40                                                 35

Intelligence & Critical Thinking       40                                                  30

Indian & Global Environment         40                                                  15

The other MBA entrance examinations are XAT, SNAP, ATMA,etc.