Bangalore: All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) is planning to hold a single entrance exam for all management studies. Current entrance exams like the Common Admission Test (CAT), Management Aptitude Test (MAT) and other entrance exams, conducted by various state governments, may soon exist. At present, there are 3,800 AICTE-approved management institutes that have almost 4 lakh students. Every year, around 60-70 institutes get added to the list. "Currently, we take several exams in a year conducted by state government. It is really hectic and I personally feel that a single admission test will be beneficial and there is a scope for good competition," Saurabh Bhide, a Bangalore University student. Almost 1.8 lakh candidates took CAT in 2010 while more than 2 lakh candidates registered for it. On the other hand, 2.5 lakh students wrote MAT in 2010. Experts say there was an anomaly in the proposal as earlier the AICTE norm was that admissions could be through one of the five all-India entrance testes' CAT, JMET, MAT (conducted by All India Management Association), ATMA and XAT (conducted by XLRI). All institutions admitting students on an all-India basis then had to opt for one of these all-India entrance tests.