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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Common Admission Test(CAT)




Common Admission Test(CAT)







Introduction
Common Admission Test is conducted by IIMs for admissions to various programs in management in India. There are almost 3,335 seats in IIMs in India.

TCS was IIM Indore's partner in developing and delivering CAT 2014.
Eligibility
.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) and Differently Abled (DA). Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor's degree/equivalent qualification examination and those who have completed degree requirements and are awaiting results can also apply.

Purpose And Structure
.CAT has two sections. The first section is focused on Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation; the second on Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning. The two sections are implemented sequentially with separate time limits. The examination will is for 140 minutes. The candidates have 70 minutes to answer 30 questions within each section which have an on‐screen countdown timer. Once the time ends for the first section, they will move to the second and will be unable to go back.

More Details
.Each IIM shortlists candidates for second stage of selection which may be independent of each other. The process may include Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussions (GD) and Personal Interviews (PI).Performance in CAT examination is an important component in the admission process. IIMs may use previous academic performance of the candidates, relevant work experience and other similar inputs in short listing and ranking of candidates at various stages of the admission process.

Scores of CAT are accepted by many reputed institutes other than IIMs also. There are more than 170 non-IIM Institutes that will accept CAT Scores like FMS, six IITs , Department of Management Studies, School of Management, Pondicherry University, Faculty of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad, National Universities which have their departments of management studies also accept scores like Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, University School of Management, Kurukshetra University, The Business School, University of Jammu, University Business School, Punjab University, Institute of Management Science, University of Lucknow, Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta etc.
How to apply
Online ,CAT 2014 was conducted on 16th Nov 2014 and 22 Nov 2014. Almost 1.97 lakh aspirants took the test. The results were declared in Dec and 16 students secured a 100 percentile. 

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