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| Common
Admission Test (CAT) |
| Description |
The
Common Admission Test (CAT) is jointly
conducted by the Indian Institute
of Management (IIM) - Ahmedabad, Bangalore,
Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow.
Some of the most prestigious Indian
Business Schools such as SP Jain,
MICA, and T A Pai also take CAT score
as an important criteria for their
selection process.
The CAT is considered as one of the
most important national standard for
entrance to management institutes.
Apart from the Indian Institutes of
Management over 40 other Management
Institutes use the CAT for short listing
candidates. |
| Eligibility
Criteria |
The
candidate must hold a Bachelor’s
Degree, with at least 50% marks or
equivalent CGPA [45% in case of the
candidates belonging to Scheduled
Caste (SC)/ Scheduled Tribe (ST) or
Persons with Disability (PWD) category],
of any of the Universities incorporated
by an act of the central or state
legislature in India or other educational
institutions established by an act
of Parliament or declared to be deemed
as a University under section 3 of
UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent
qualification recognized by the Ministry
of HRD, Government of India.
Candidates appearing for the final
year of bachelor’s degree/equivalent
qualification examination and those
who have completed degree requirement
and are awaiting results can also
apply. Such candidates must produce
a certificate from the Principal/Head
of the Department/ Registrar/Director
of the university/institution certifying
that the candidate is currently in
the final year / is awaiting final
results and has obtained at least
50% marks or equivalent (45% in case
of candidates belonging to SC/ST/PWD
category) based on latest available
grades/marks. |
| Exam
Pattern |
The
syllabus for the CAT Examination
changes every year (or is tentative
to change). Generally, questions
from the following categories are
frequently have appeared in the
past: Verbal ability and reasoning,
Reading Comprehension, Quantitative
skills, Data Interpretation and
Analytical and Logical reasoning.
Common Admission Test – CAT
is a 2 hours test comprises of 3
sections with equal number of questions
in each section. There is negative
marking for wrong answers. Proficiency
in all the sections is essential
for getting a call from any of the
IIMs.
- Quantitative Ability: The questions
are designed to stress more on
reasoning skills of the candidates,
rather than on their computational
skills. The level of difficulty
of this section is perceived to
be higher because the questions
are not only lengthy to read but
at times require more effort in
terms of understanding and solving.
- Data Interpretation: As the
name suggests, this section presents
data to the candidate in forms
such as caselets, pie diagrams,
bar graphs, etc and questions
are set to evaluate the candidate’s
skills at analyzing the given
information.
Data Sufficiency questions in this
section are based on basic mathematics
(at times Data Sufficiency is a
part of the Quantitative Ability
section).
- Reading Comprehension (RC):
CAT usually has 6-8 passages
in the RC section, with an overall
length of 4500-5500 words and
about 50 questions to answer
in a span of about 30 minutes.
However this too can vary according
to the level of difficulty of
questions.
- Verbal Ability: This section
explores your understanding
of the English Language and
also tests you on Reasoning
Skills. The questions in this
section typically comprise sentence
correction, sentence sequencing,
verbal reasoning
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