BRMs are exhaustive notes designed to clarify and strengthen the grasp of the basic elements in each of the test areas, viz., Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation, Data Sufficiency, Logical Reasoning, Verbal Ability, Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. Once you are through with the meticulously designed BRMs, you will have the confidence to solve the tests in Parts B, C and D, where the objective is to provide practice, train and develop accuracy and speed. Usually, a student requires about two to three months to complete the BRMs.

Comprehensive Testing
Accurate testing alongwith feedback is one of the most important features of training for competitive tests. On the other hand, it is not advisable to rush through a series of tests, one after the other. Each comprehensive test should be used not only as a measurement of one's progress but also as an assessment tool for further learning to hone the required skills. After every comprehensive test, the student must analyse where he is falling short (in which areas, in what type of problems). Thereafter, he should strive to make up for these deficiencies by working on the BRMs, and attack the next test with improved skill and confidence. All students are required to post their scores on the Student Page on the IMS website.

Contains Comprehensive as well as Section Tests. The section tests are provided to enable students to practice individual subject areas. Concepts learnt in Part-A are applied in successive section tests in Part-B, whereby the student gets an opportunity for revision. Section Tests bring to bear upon the need to concentrate on each area of the test building confidence to tackle the comprehensive tests. Students are advised to alternate between section tests and comprehensive tests in this part.

This portion of the material contains section tests comprising singular areas of proficiency, coupled with comprehensive tests. Again the section tests have been provided so that students can achieve competence in singular test areas and improve where required before taking the comprehensive tests. The tests in this part put pressure on the students to stretch their capacity of being able to accept subtle changes in the test formats. Moreover, from here on students are given purposeful practice to develop speed. If you have studied well from the Parts A and B of the program, you will have no difficulty in solving Part-C.

Of the course contains a set of comprehensive tests to give you extensive practice in the 30 days prior to the CAT. The comprehensive tests in Part-D are for identifying tactical deficiencies and give you sufficient practice to take corrective measures and constantly improve performance. These tests are a must for students who are taking the CAT. If you are 'prepared' for the test, you will be able to face any "pattern" that the IIMs or any other test has to throw at you.

The most important part of the course apart from the basic learning and effective practice with tests are the Simulated CATs. These tests simulate the environment and pressure you will face as a student on the day of the CAT.

The SimCATs offer the students an opportunity to evaluate, refine and map their performance, skills and strategies against peers from 80+ IMS Learning Centres across the country under actual test conditions. After each SimCAT, students receive feedback. The individual scores and percentile ranking allow the students to understand their relative ranking amongst competition.

Last year the SimCATs offered an opportunity for performance evaluation across 30,000 IMS students. To ensure that every IMS student, oral and even correspondence utilizes this opportunity, the SimCATs are conducted on Sundays only (as also the fact that the CAT and most other tests are held on Sundays), at all the 80+ IMS Learning Centres across the country. Since students are required to mark their answers on OMR sheets (similar to those in the CAT) results are made available within 48 hours on the Student Page at the IMS website for speedy and convenient access.

IMS also puts up the top 100 rankers nationally on the student page and provides the ranking at the regional and city levels at the respective centre.

The date and venue for the SimCATs will be communicated to the students in the month of August. (Please check your IMS Student Page for the schedule).

It is important as a sensible strategy that apart from the CAT, based on individual aspirations, educational background and needs, students appear for at least the tests of the best institutes in the country. Institutes like XLRI (XAT), FMS, IITs (JMET), etc. have their own entrance tests. To help you gear up for these, IMS provides Additional Material for Tests of Institutes Other Than the CAT.

Why do you need the ADMAT?
ADMAT has been created with the understanding on the fact that the CAT preparation, being the toughest and the most comprehensive, is sufficient to help you to clear the other entrance tests. While students do not require training in the basics it is important that they get the extra test practice and the feel of these tests. To remain competitive, you must keep on practicing. This is where the ADMAT becomes extremely helpful.

ADMAT provides students:

    a) A feel of the tests of other institutes
    b) Additional tests for practice
    c) Touches upon areas that the other tests may test you on.
    d) Familiarises you with different types of questions of other tests.
    e) Due to the uncertainty of tests, ADMAT provides you with experimental questions.

Since the ADMAT undergoes a revision every year, to bring it in line with current testing trends, it is ready for despatch only around the last week of November.

Correspondence students will receive the material in the last week of November just before the CAT. Oral students can pick up the material from the IMS office the day after the CAT.