CMAT 2021: Students get on Twitter and ask NTA to reconsider the exam date

NEW DELHI: National Testing Agency (NTA) will be conducting CMAT 2021 on March 31, 2021, in two shifts. NTA announced the revised CMAT exam date yesterday and since then a majority of the students are anxious and distressed. CMAT aspirants have gone to Twitter to share their concerns, some want the exam to be postponed till April, some want the NTA to take note of the increasing COVID cases in the country, and some feel NTA has announced CMAT on such short notice.

The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is usually held in January, but CMAT 2021 was delayed until February due to the COVID-19 situation in the country. And, thereafter NTA again postponed the exam owing to the addition of an optional section in the exam pattern of CMAT on request of AICTE.

The NTA CMAT admit card 2021 will be released on March 24, before 10 am. More than 50,000 students are expected to appear in CMAT 2021. According to CMAT statistics from the previous year, a total of 74,486 students appeared for the exam. The CMAT 2021 exam will be held in 153 cities across the country.

Students reaction on CMAT exam dates 2021

@DG_NTA How can you announce CMAT 2021with a short notice.
Atleast if you have announce the dates last week students might have planned accordingly.
Therefore please revise the dates to 2nd week of April.#cmat2021 @DrRPNishank

— siddharth mishra (@MishraSpeak) March 22, 2021

@DG_NTA How can you announce CMAT 2021with a short notice. Covid cases are spiking up now that to especially in Maharashtra.
Atleast if you have announce the dates last week students might have planned accordingly.
Therefore please revise the dates to 2nd week of April.#cmat2021

— Vigneshwar (@vigneshkrissh95) March 22, 2021

#CMAT2021 #postponecmat #nta @DG_NTA
Many universities are conducting exam on 31st and also practical exams are there and the exam date of cmat is clashing. We would not be able to appear in the cmat exam that's why please postpone it to 2nd week of April.

— pihu (@pihupan82208107) March 23, 2021

@DG_NTA @Swamy39 sir NTA has released a date of CMAT National management exam as 31march and holi is on 29th we have booked our tickets and practically not possible to comeback by 30. How can they relese dates 8 days prior to national exams?
Please help sir !#CMAT2021

— Isha (@IshaManiTripat1) March 23, 2021

Shockingg!!! How can NTA do this to us, Is this for real??....JUST 8 DAYS TO THE EXAM. ALL HOPES IN VAIN.
I request the management and the government to look into this and give us some more time please.@DG_NTA #CMAT2021 #CMAT https://t.co/tCtMM86ApO

— Snowie (@Snowie122) March 22, 2021

@DG_NTA how careless is government of our country.
1. Announcing exam date 8 days before (our future depends on it).
2. Corona cases are increasing one side still + lockdown in some part of countries still government want us to give exam next week.#CMAT #CMAT2021 @DrRPNishank

— Ashish Mahajan (@AshishMahajan41) March 23, 2021

@DG_NTA what is wrong with NTA you are informing the date 9 days prior to exam like seriously? #CMAT2021 #NTA

— Riya Chaturvedi (@_RiyaChaturvedi) March 23, 2021

@DG_NTA this is horrible and disgusting, how the national Institute can take a decision for cmat paper on 31st march , at least there should be gap of 20 days, and in many states there is lockdown, how you can take this pathetic decision to conduct paper.... pic.twitter.com/BHv2TYHvY2

— Vinita (@Vinita07622019) March 23, 2021

Revised CMAT 2021 dates

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National Testing Agency (NTA) annually conducts the Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) for admission into management programmes offered by more than 1000 AICTE approved colleges.

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