ATMA is a standard test to assess the aptitude of candidates for Management Education. The test is run by the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), which is a network of about 400 management schools in the country. AIMS represents Indian Management Schools in the international networks body INTERMAN and is also associated with many committees of the government or its agencies looking at policies relating to management education.

ATMA has nothing to do with the admission process of the different management schools, which accept its scores. Student who take ATMA do not automatically get considered for admission by the management schools that accept ATMA scores for their admission unless they apply to them directly.

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ATMA is a test essentially assessing the aptitude of students for management education. About 80 management institutions today accept ATMA for their admission processes. It is up to individual management institutes to decide how it will use ATMA. Both AIMS and ATMA do not have nor intend to have any information relating to the admission processes of different institutions. This has to be clearly understood. Each student who takes ATMA can apply to any of the schools, which have announced publicly in newspaper announcements or brochure that they accept ATMA scores.

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ATMA checks the aptitude of the students for management education through three major elements:

1. Quantitative Skills
2. Analytical Reasoning
3. Verbal Skills

Generally, these are the three areas required to assess the aptitude of a candidate. Other major testing agencies also test students in the same three areas. In ATMA, there are 200 questions, which a student has to answer. It is not really possible even for the best of students to answer all the questions. Exceptions will always be there. If one is unable to answer all the questions, it does not mean that you are not good enough for management education. In each section, the questions focus on different skills considered desirable for to be admitted into a good management school. Reference to the sample of questions given elsewhere in the bulletin or in this website will give you an idea of the kind of questions that are asked in the test.

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ATMA is valid for one year. However, it is up to the institution to decide whether they will accept scores which is one year old or the latest test that is offered. AIMS does not have any say in this nor does it intend to have any. How ATMA is to be utilized in the ATMA process is left entirely to the institutes or management schools.

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Details about ATMA can be obtained from:

The Chairman
AIMS Test for Management Admissions
No.13, Lalitha Nagar, West Marredpally,
Secunderabad - 500 026
TeleFax : 040-27702218
Emai ID:atma_aims@vsnl.net

ATMA bulletins are issued after the test dates are announced in the leading national dailies. Bulletins are issued from 5 centres whose names and telephone numbers are given below:

1. Hyderabad - Chairman, ATMA, Office of AIMS, No.13, Lalitha Nagar, West Marredpally, Secunderabad - 500 026
2. Kolhapur - CHH. Shahu Central Institute of Business Education and Research, University Road, Kolhapur - 416 004, Tel - 0231-662558, Fax- 0231-664505
3. Pune - The Director, Indian Institute of Cost and Management Studies and Research (IndSearch), 85/1, Law College Road, Pune - 411 004. Tel No:020-543 1972
4. Indore - Prestige Institute of Management & Research, 2, Education and Health Sector Scheme, 54, Indore - 452 010, MP, Tel No:0731-2557114, 2554274
5. Guwahati - Assam Institute of Management, 5th Floor, East Point Tower, Bamurimandan, Guwahati - 781021, Tel No: 0361-2654813, Fax - 0361 - 2551071
6. Ghaziabad - Shiva Institute of Management Studies, 364 - 365, Pandav Nagar, Industrial area, Bulandshahr Road, NH-24, Ghaziabad - 201005, Tel - 0120-2703521, 270 2412, Fax - 0120-2700193
7. Gwalior: Prestige Institute of Management, Airport Road, Near Deendayal Nagar, Gwalior-474020. Tel: 0751-2470724, 2340027
8. Kolkata: Institute of management study, 93 Mukundapur main road Eastern metropolitant bypass, Kolkata – 700099. Phone : 033- 24264168 mobile 9830030791 / 9831637683.
9. Guwahati: Asian College, House No.10, Nayanpur 3rd BYE Lane Japorigog Road, Ganeshguri Dispur, Guwahati - 781 005. Tel:0361-2208960. Cell: 9864032591.
   

   IMS Learning Centres

   Ahmedabad : 26424249

   Bangalore : 22447266, 41137660, 25582200

   Bhilal : 4010716

   Bhopal : 6543001

   Bhubaneswar : 2564156, 2536053

   Chandigarh : 0172-2621914

   Chennai : 42116836, 28193075

   Cochin : 2354016

   Coimbatore : 2215284

   Cuttack : 335085

   Ghaziabad : 93504-05140

   Gurgaon : 98116-34449

   Guwahati : 2662355

   Hydrabad : 6666 9333

   Indore : 4206129

   Jabalpur : 4004839

   Jaipur : 2740579

   Kanpur : 2535794

   Kolkata : 24659001, 22891234, 23210303

   Lucknow : 2285768

   Madurai : 4383183

   Mumbai : 26733964, 28332074, 25717181, 24020224

   Nagpur : 2557084

   New Delhi : 23359967, 27429665, 41731456

   Noida :2534463

   Patna : 2210729

   Pune : 26059741, 56008726, 24223925

   Ranchi : 2563928

   Trichy : 2742002

   Visakhapatnam : 6631488

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At present, only Indian institutions are accepting ATMA. ATMA started only last year. It is only one year old. Once it is established well, it is possible that other institutions both national and international may opt for ATMA.

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ATMA gives you an opportunity to apply to different management schools. Your performance in ATMA will determine your chances of getting admission to the institutes that you are applying. The ATMA organization will provide your raw scores as well as percentiles in each section as well as the total to enable you to assess where you stand in the student population that is taking ATMA.

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For a long time members of AIMS were keen that it starts a test for selecting students for their MBA and other master's level programmes. GMAT is a test which is accepted globally. All the tests conducted today would have used the structure of GMAT for their tests each one with some variation or the other. We have tried to make ATMA as close to GMAT as possible except that the Indian situation gets reflected in the setting up of questions for the test.

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Students should make sure that their fundamentals are clear in each of the three areas in which testing is done. A student with a good record in a good Bachelor's degree should be able to tackle ATMA without much difficulty if he has taken objective type tests before. Otherwise he can get some practice from any number of tests that are available in the public domain. A student should brush up his English grammar, meaning of words and comprehension, Mathematics and reading of some basic books on logic. He/She can do some IQ tests as well for practice and speed of response.

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The decision to organise ATMA was taken in 1999 and the first ATMA was held in February 2000. Since then the tests have been organised every year and twice in some years. AIMS felt that as an Association of Management Schools in the country, it should take the lead in organising as Admission Test for the benefit of its members many of whom were organising their own tests for admitting students. A credible test would immensely benefit members. The test has been opened up subsequently to non AIMS member institutions as well.

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ATMA has emphasised transparency and it was amongst the first one to release a candidates scores in each section as well as the percentiles covering the entire population. This is done in GMAT others are now doing it as a student has a right to know how he has performed in comparison with other students.

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