SMAT FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions

(1) The students who have completed their graduation and hold a degree for the same from any recognized university or institution can apply for the SMAT 2023.
(2) The students who are still in their final year of graduation can also apply for the SMAT 2023. (3) Students applying for this entrance test must have obtained a minimum of 50% in their graduation.

Yes, candidates who are waiting for the final year result can apply for this exam. However, they need to present the final year result at the time of counselling.

Yes, if a candidate has obtained more than 50% in their graduation from a recognised university, they are eligible to sit for the entrance exam.

Candidates applying for the SMAT 2023 need to can visit the official website of Shiv Nadar University and register themselves with the help of the link available there.
(1) Complete the initial registration
(2) Submit the educational details and upload the documents asked there
(3) At the end, the student has to pay the application fee and submit the form.

Candidates who are interested in SMAT 2023 can fill out the application form by logging into the official website of Shiv Nadar University. The website is https://snu.edu.in/.

The application fee for the Shiv Nadar University Management Aptitude Test (SMAT) 2023 is INR 1200. The candidates can pay the application fee online through a credit card, debit card or UPI.

Candidates who are interested in SMAT 2023 can fill out the application form latest by the end of June 2023. The exam is expected to take place in the first week of July 2023.

The English comprehension section covers topics mentioned below
(1) Antonyms-Synonyms
(2) Logical Consistency
(3) Idioms & Phrases
(4) Subject-Verb Agreement
(5) Tenses
(6) Modifiers & Parallelism
(7) Inference-based passages Syllogisms
(8) Etymology & Roots
(9) Reading comprehension

We have mentioned the topics of the Quantitative section of SMAT 2023
(1) HCF & LCM
(2) Decimals and fractions
(3) Number systems
(4) Time, speed and distance
(5) Pipes and cisterns
(6) Ratio
(7) Proportion and percentage
(8) probability
(9) Profit and loss
(10) simple and compound interest
(11) Geometry

We have mentioned the topics of the syllabus for the data interpretation section of the SMAT 2023
(1) Coding and decoding
(2) Family tree and directions
(3) Logical series
(4) Selection criteria
(5) Calendar
(6) Analogies,
(7) Syllogism and logical puzzles.

The candidates appearing for the SMAT can refer to books such as
(1) R S Aggarwal’s How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT
(2) High School Grammar by Arun Sharma
(3) Meenakshi Upadhyay and Wren & Martin’s Logical & Analytical Reasoning.

The candidates preparing for the SMAT should be well aware of the syllabus beforehand and should have covered all the main topics in advance. In the last few days, students can solve mock test papers to know how well they have prepared.

The topics that a student should prepare for the English comprehension section are Idioms & Phrases, logical consistency, foreign words nouns and pronoun errors, idioms, antonyms and synonyms, etc.