Every year, thousands of Class 10 students sit for NTSE with solid academic records and still don’t make the cut. The reason, more often than not, isn’t weak subject knowledge. It’s underestimating the Mental Ability Test. MAT demands a thinking style that regular school preparation simply doesn’t build. The good news? It’s trainable. Understanding What MAT Really Demands The MAT section is not a knowledge test. It’s a reasoning test. Questions cover analogies, classification, series, pattern perception, hidden figures, coding-decoding, block assembly, and problem solving — none of which appear in a standard school syllabus. They test how quickly and…
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