NMAT Result 2026: Date, Scorecard & How to Check

Your NMAT result is not one day on a calendar. It is a personal 48-hour window that starts the moment you finish your own exam.

A candidate who tests in the first week of November gets their Score Card on their own clock. So does one who tests in the third week of December. Neither waits for a shared release date, because there isn't one.

The number your Score Card gives you is fixed and final. What it is worth for admission depends on where you apply. GMAC publishes percentile rankings separately from the scaled score, so you can look up where yours stands if you want to.

NMAT 2026 runs across a seven-week window, 2 November to 20 December 2026. Every candidate books a different slot inside that window, so every candidate's result date sits somewhere different too.

Test on 3 November, and your Score Card should be ready by around 5 November. Test on 20 December, and yours lands closer to 22 December. Both dates are correct at once. Each one is tied to that candidate's own exam, not to a shared calendar of NMAT dates.

You do get one number sooner than that. An unofficial score appears on screen the instant you submit your exam. Treat it as provisional. The official Score Card, which you download and which institutes recognise, follows within 48 hours of your slot.

Downloading your result takes three steps, all inside the account you already registered with. There is no separate result portal to search for.

Your Score Card centers on four scaled-score numbers: three sectional scores, and one total.

Institutes can shortlist on either your scaled score or the percentile from GMAC's percentile-rankings table. Which one a given institute relies on is that institute's own choice.

A scaled score and a percentile answer different questions, and NMAT's format is why. CAT gives every candidate the same paper on the same day, so ranking one candidate against everyone else that day is straightforward. NMAT runs for seven weeks, with a fresh, adaptive question set drawn for each candidate on their own slot. There is no single group who sat an identical paper on the same day to rank you against in real time.

GMAC still gives you a way to see where your score stands. It publishes a separate percentile-rankings table on mba.com that converts total scaled scores into percentiles, drawn from its broader pool of NMAT test-takers rather than a same-day comparison. Look up your own total scaled score there for a percentile figure alongside it.

This leaves you holding a number like 220 out of 360, plus whatever percentile GMAC's table shows for it. Either way, the number that actually decides your shortlist is where accepting institutes draw their own line, not the percentile alone.

Independent education portals, not GMAC, track what each institute's NMAT cut-offs have looked like across past cycles.

The institute cutoff table above tells you where you stand against real admission behaviour. For an actual percentile figure, check GMAC's own percentile-rankings table rather than an independent estimate.