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Certificates for the 26 September 2026 sitting are released on 12 October 2026. This page explains what the numbers on it mean — and, where the official sources have not published something, says that instead of guessing.
Exam facts on this page last verified against official sources on .
g.a.s.t. publishes results and issues certificates on 12 October 2026. The certificate is not emailed: you download it yourself from the participant portal you registered in. The official wording is that as soon as the results are available, you can download your certificate in your participant portal.
The dMAT certificate forms part of your APS documentation. It does not replace APS document verification — it sits alongside it — and it can be submitted after your initial APS documents have gone in.
You are scored separately on the two modules: the Core Module, which is Figure Sequences, Mathematical Equations and Latin Squares, and the Subject Module, which for APS India is the General Academic Module.
Each module score is a conversion of your number of correct answers onto a scale from 0 to 200, and the average is 100. Your total is simply the two module values added together. There is no pass mark, because the dMAT is not a pass-or-fail test — it is a measurement that goes into your APS file.
Alongside each score you get a percentile rank, and it is the number most worth understanding, because it is the one that compares you with everyone else who sat the test. The official definition is that the percentile rank indicates what percentage of the other participants received a lower or equally good result.
So a percentile rank of 70 means 70% of participants scored lower than you or the same as you, and 30% scored higher. Note the or equally good: the rank counts ties on your side, not against you.
The official answer is short: the dMAT certificate is valid indefinitely. It does not expire, and there is no published window inside which you have to use it. If you sit the test this cycle and apply in a later one, the certificate you are holding is still the certificate you need.
Two things are worth separating. The first is whether the score is actually a problem: a low dMAT score does not automatically decide an application, because it is one element of an APS file rather than the whole of it. The second is whether you can sit the test again — and the rules for retaking have not been published by g.a.s.t. or APS India, so we cannot tell you how many attempts you have, what a retake costs, or when the next sitting is. Check the official sources below rather than any figure you see repeated in a forum.
What we can say is what the score is made of. Reading your two module scores covers what a gap between the Core and Subject values tells you, which is usually more useful than the total on its own.
As of 23 September 2026, the official sources do not state a date for a second or later sitting, the rules or cost of a retake, or any score threshold used by universities. If you find one of these asserted anywhere — including here — check it against g.a.s.t. and APS India before you rely on it.
The rest of what we have written about the window between the exam and your application.
How the rank is built, and why it moves differently from the raw score.
What the gap between the Core and Subject values tells you that the total does not.
Why practice scores and the real thing diverge, and which one to believe.
Where the certificate goes in the APS process once you have it.
How to think about it while the retake rules are still unpublished.
The application work that does not have to wait for your result.
We link out so you can verify everything yourself. We are not affiliated with any of these bodies.