The dMAT Guide: 249 Practice Questions + Full Mock
249 Practice Questions For An Exam That Officially Has 18.
The dMAT Guide. Built from the source documents, not from other people's blogs.
The Exam Nobody Can Prepare You For
From the Summer 2027 intake, APS India will not issue your APS certificate until you have sat the dMAT. No APS, no German university application. It is that simple, and it is that final.
So you go looking for practice. Here is everything that officially exists:
| What exists officially | How much |
|---|---|
| Core Module practice exercises | 18 |
| Sample questions for the subject module | 4 |
| Practice for the General Academic Module, the one every Indian applicant sits | Nothing |
| Length of the actual exam | Four hours |
Twenty two questions for a four hour paper. And for half the exam, not a single practice item anywhere on the internet.
We wrote g.a.s.t. about this. Their answer: material for the General Academic Module "will be available soon." The test is on 26 September 2026.
So We Built It Ourselves
Not a summary of the rules. Not another explainer. Actual practice, in the actual format, with the answers worked through.
| # | What you get | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 60 Mathematical Equations items | Every one verified by exhaustive search to have exactly one solution in 1 to 20 |
| 2 | 60 Latin Squares items | Each checked so only one letter can occupy the marked cell, with the full deduction chain |
| 3 | 40 Figure Sequences items | Machine-checked so the four shown matrices admit exactly one legal continuation |
| 4 | 12 General Academic Module testlets | 89 questions for the module with zero official material |
| 5 | 1 full length mock paper | 90 min Core, 30 min break, 90 min Subject Module. The real structure |
| 6 | An eligibility checker | Type your degree, get the official APS answer with the wording that decides it |
| 7 | The no-paper chapter | No notes, no calculator, no rough sheet. A trainable skill nobody teaches |
| 8 | The real timeline | Which universities are still reachable, and the non-EU deadlines everyone quotes wrongly |
| 9 | Test day rules | Including the ones that get people excluded on the spot |
| 10 | What nobody knows | Retakes, second sittings, refunds. Stated honestly, with sources |
272 pages. 249 practice questions. Instant access.
Five Things The Internet Is Telling You That Are Wrong
We checked every claim circulating on consultancy blogs against the source documents. These five are repeated widely enough to cost you marks or money.
| # | What they say | What the official document says |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Choose your subject module based on your branch" | There is no choice. Every Indian applicant sits the General Academic Module. An engineer and a B.Com graduate sit an identical paper |
| 2 | Latin Squares is 16 tasks in 20 minutes | That is TestAS. The dMAT is 20 tasks in 25 minutes, four grids longer |
| 3 | "It is not pass or fail, so relax" | True, and your score is printed on your APS certificate and travels to every university. Paderborn already requires percentile 50 or above |
| 4 | Standalone Computer Science and BCA are covered | The official list says they are not automatically covered. Three widely read Indian sites get this backwards |
| 5 | "The next dMAT is Q1 2027" | Invented. We queried the exam board's own public feed: 1 dMAT date exists, against 6 TestAS and 14 TestDaF dates already scheduled for 2027 |
Every Claim Has A Source. Every One.
No consultancy blog is cited anywhere in this guide. Not once.
Everything traces to g.a.s.t., APS India, uni-assist, or the university's own admissions page. Where something has genuinely not been published, the guide says so instead of guessing, which is more than the sites currently advertising a dMAT date that does not exist can manage.
There is an entire chapter called "What nobody actually knows". Retake policy: not published anywhere, in either language. Negative marking: never stated. Number of testlets: not published, and where we infer it we tell you it is an inference.
You are buying a document that admits what it does not know. That is the whole point.
Who This Is For
Engineering, commerce and business graduates applying for a German master's from Summer 2027 onward
Anyone who has booked the 26 September sitting and has nothing to practise on
Anyone who does not know whether their degree even requires the dMAT. The checker answers that in ten seconds
Not for you if you are applying for a bachelor's or a PhD. Both are exempt from the dMAT, and the guide will tell you that on the first page rather than taking your money quietly.
One Date Exists
Registration closes 15 September 2026. The test is 26 September 2026. Certificates arrive 12 October 2026.
Nothing is scheduled after that. Not by us, by the exam board's own calendar.
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