ATMA refers to AIMS Test for Management Admissions. AIMS stands for Association of Indian Management Schools. ATMA is a single-window entrance test to enrol students to the various management programmes run by the member management institutes of the AIMS. So if you want to study in any of the member instates of the AIMS then you need not apply individually to all of them one by one. Rather you can just go for appearing in the ATMA conducted by the AIMS, the score of which can be utilised in applying for the management programmes of the member institutes.

The ATMA is considered as one of the top-notch entrance tests in India for its planning and management. It has a very good level. The test has been designed to judge a management applicant from various parameters including his or her comprehension abilities, verbal reasoning capacities, analysing and synthesizing capabilities and numerical reasoning abilities.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India has approved the ATMA as the valid entrance test for the admissions to the various management programmes.

The ATMA has undergone some modifications of late keeping in line with the changing trends in the world of management education. From last year the AIMS has introduced the online application of registration forms for the convenience of the applicants.

The ATMA is held four times a year. The next test is scheduled in the month of February 2010 for which the application process has been closed. For the next instance of the test you can keep visiting this site or the official website of the AIMS at http://atma-aims.org/