CAT (Common Admission Test)

Common Admission Test – CAT Coaching is provided by Global Education Counsel (Div of Growth Centre (I) Pvt. Ltd). It is the entrance exam that students have to take to get admission to the Indian Institute of Management. CAT entrance exam is used as a criterion to shortlist applicants for admissions to all the IIM’s. The IIM’s are located in the following places Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode, Kashipur, Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Shillong, Tiruchirappalli and Udaipur. Apart from IIM’s there are many Top B-Schools also accepting Common Admission Test (CAT) scores for admission into their Management courses.

Eligibility:

• Bachelor’s Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [45% in case of the candidates belonging to Reserved Category]

• Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification examination and awaiting results can also apply.

Age:

There is no age restriction to take up CAT Exam.

Test Description:

CAT is Computer Based Test [CBT]. CAT is designed to test the inclination of the applicant towards managerial tasks and roles.

There are mainly two sections

(a) Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation.
(b) Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning.

Test Pattern:

Scoring:

• +3 points for questions you answered correctly.

• -1 point for questions answered incorrectly.

• 0 points for questions you did not answer.

Syllabus:

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.