Arizona Tribune - IIM Indore Announces IPMAT 2027 Exam Date for April 24

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore has confirmed that the Integrated Programme in Management Aptitude Test (IPMAT) for 2027 will take place on Saturday, April 24, during the afternoon shift. This national-level entrance examination is designed to select candidates for admission into the institute's five-year Integrated Programme in Management (IPM).

To be eligible for the test, applicants must have passed their Class XII or an equivalent qualifying examination. The institute has not specified a minimum percentage requirement for academic performance. Regarding age criteria, general category applicants must have been born on or after August 1, 2007. Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) categories are granted a five-year relaxation in the upper age limit, making those born on or after August 1, 2002, eligible to apply.

The examination is conducted as a two-hour computer-based test comprising 90 questions divided equally into three sections, each lasting 40 minutes. The Quantitative Ability section includes 15 short-answer questions and 30 multiple-choice questions. The Verbal Ability section consists of 45 questions presented in both multiple-choice and short-answer formats.

For the multiple-choice portions of both sections, the marking scheme awards four marks for each correct answer and imposes a one-mark deduction for incorrect responses. The syllabus covers Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning, Data Interpretation, and Verbal Ability. Key topics include core arithmetic, higher mathematics, passage-based puzzles, graphical data sets, grammar, reading comprehension, and vocabulary.

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