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Common Admission Test (CAT) :
About The Test :
Common Admission Test (CAT), is the common entrance exam that you have to take to get admission to the Indian Institute of Management. The CAT is now conducted on the second last Sunday of November and is generally the first management entrance examination in a long list of exams to follow. CAT entrance exam is used as a criteria to shortlist applicants for admissions to the IIMs- IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, and IIM Kozhikode. Besides the IIMs some other top management institutes like Management Development Institute, S.P. Jain Institute, Nirma Institute of Management, T.A. PAI , IMT and few more also shortlist the applicants on the basis of CAT.
CAT tests the skills of candidates in five broad areas i.e., verbal ability and reasoning, reading comprehension, quantitative skills, data interpretation, and analytical and logical reasoning. The duration of the test is of 120 minutes. The number of questions asked in Common Admission Test vary every year and a typical CAT question paper can have anywhere between 75 and 150 questions. All the questions are of multiple-choice nature with four/five alternate answer choices and the candidate has to choose the best answer for each of the questions and mark it on a special Optical Reader answer sheet. For every correct answer, one mark is awarded and for every wrong answer, 1/4th of a mark is deducted. Differential marks are allotted to the questions. A question may be of 0.5 marks, 1 mark or 2 marks.
The CAT exam is conducted once a year in November/December. CAT has been rated as the most difficult MBA entrance test in the world by the Economist Intelligence Survey over the year many other institutes also accept this CAT score for their admission processes.
Common Admission Test evaluates the candidate's presence of mind and his ability to perform under pressure. Key to success in CAT exam depends on two important parameters. Firstly, it is important to get a strike rate of over 85% and reduce the number of negatives. Secondly, be smart in choosing the questions. Attempt the easy questions first. Don't try to attempt questions about which you only have a vague idea
Eligibility :
- Graduate in any discipline with a minimum of 50% in aggregate
- Final year students also apply
- For the admission to PGP at least 3 year Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in any discipline recognized by AIU/AICTE as eligible for Post Graduate Studies in Management
Application Procedure/ Application Kit :Obtain the CAT bulletin containing the CAT application Form and other information at the branches of UTI Bank/Post Offices as the dates declared for sale of forms
- Buy only one CAT Bulletin irrespective of how many IIMs he/she is applying to.
- Enclose the Copy of Bank’s/IIMs’ Pay-in Slip bearing the Candidate’s name with the CAT Application Form.
- SC/ST candidates should submit a copy of SC/ST Certificate to the Bank /IIM at the time of obtaining the CAT Bulletin.
- Before procuring the CAT bulletin, Candidates should ensure they meet the eligibility criteria of the Programme in which they are interested.
- CAT application forms of ineligible candidates and application forms with incomplete information will be summarily rejected.
- Online Application : The CAT Bulletin (without application form) can also be obtained by making e-payment at the web-site through payment gateway of UTI Bank. The bulletin to candidates making e-payments would be sent to their address.
- All such candidates would have to fill the application compulsorily by revisiting the same web-site five days after making the e-payment as per the dates of sale of form and submission of form.
- After filling up the form at the web-site, the candidates need to take a print-out, sign the form, affix their photograph and send it with the other relevant documents to the concerned IIM (depending upon their choice of test centre).
- Please note that in the absence of photograph, signature and other relevant documents, the online application would be considered incomplete and would be rejected.
- The applications can also be filled up online by the candidates who have purchased CAT bulletin from UTI Bank branches.
- After two days of buying the bulletin, they can visit the web-site to fill up the application form.
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IIM Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management
Vastrapur Ahmedabad 380 015 INDIA
Tel: 91 79 2630 7241
Fax: 91 79 2630 6896
URL: www.iimahd.ernet.in
IIM Bangalore
Indian Institute Of Management
Bangalore Bannerghatta Road,
Bangalore , India Pin Code : 560 076
Tel: 91-80-26582450
Fax: 91-80-26584050
URL: www.iimb.ernet.in
IIM Calcutta
Indian Institute Of Management Calcutta
Diamond harbour road Joka,
Kolkata ( Calcutta ) - 700104
West Bengal India
URL: www.iimcal.ac.in |
IIM Indore
Indian Institute of Management Indore
Pigdamber, Rau Indore 453 331
Madhya Pradesh , India
Tel: + 91-731-4228400
Fax: + 91-731-4228800
E-mail: webman@iimidr.ac.in
URL: www.iimidr.ac.in
IIM Kozhikode
Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode IIMK Campus
P. O. , Kozhikode 673 570, Kerala , India
Phone: +91-495-2803001
Fax : +91-495-2803010-11
URL: www.iimk.ac.in/
IIM Lucknow
Indian Institute Of Management
Prabandh Nagar, Off Sitapur Road Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh India Pin : 226013
URL: www.iiml.ac.in/ |
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Test Description :
Common Admission Test – CAT is a 2 ½ hours. CAT is an aptitude test. There is no set or defined syllabus for the exam. What we can say about CAT is it is designed to assess the natural ability of a person towards their desired objective. Hence CAT is designed to test the inclination of the applicant towards managerial tasks and roles. Mainly the questions are asked from Quantitative Ability (QA) Data Interpretation (DI)Reading Comprehension (RC) Verbal Ability (VA).
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 case lets, 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
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 etc.
CAT Scores:
Earlier CAT scores were kept secret and were available only to the management institutes affiliated in the form of percentiles. From the year 2002 however the CAT gives the students a scorecard allowing them to understand their section-wise and overall performance.
CAT Scorecard:
The CAT scorecard does not give any absolute or actual scores. The CAT being an aptitude test grades students on the relative scale. The scores are presented in two formats Percentage score (%score) and Percentile for each section and the overall test.
Percentage (%) score
The % score represents normalized percentage of scores secured by the candidate. It is a relative method of representing the score. This is not the actual % score.
Percentile
Percentile indicates student's relative performance position among the total students who took the CAT. For example 98 percentile means that the student is among the top 2 percent of the population who took the CAT. |
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Cat Test Centers
The following is the current list of the Test Centres for the CAT Exams |
- Ahmedabad
- Indore
- Allahabad
- Jaipur
- Bangalore
- Jamshedpur
- Bhopal
- Kolkata
- Bhubaneswar
- Kozhikode
- Chandigarh
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- Lucknow
- Chennai
- Mumbai
- Delhi
- Nagpur
- Gurgaon
- Noida
- Guwahati
- Patna
- Hyderabad
- Pune
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