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CAT exam or common admission test is conducted annually by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). Admission Test checks for the presence common candidates mood and mental ability to perform during the pressure. The CAT exam success depends largely on two important parameters.
o Reduce the number of negatives and management of an unemployment rate of 85%
or wisely choose to answer questions by picking which one is sure of the answers and avoid the rest.
CAT entrance exam is held as a criteria to shortlist candidates seeking admission in IIM including six
IIM Ahmedabad or
or IIM Bangalore
IIM Calcutta
or IIM Lucknow
or IIM Indore
or IIM Kozhikode
Apart from some IIM senior management institutes such as the Management Development Institute, SP Jain Institute of Management Nirma Institute, PAI TA and IMT also allow access for CAT applicants appeared.
The length of the test is 120 minutes and the number of questions in the common admission test varies each year. Therefore, a normal CAT questions ranging between 75 and 150. This is an objective examination, based on what the candidate has to choose the best answer to each of the question which is marked on the OMR sheet. Each correct answer is awarded one point and each wrong answer is faced with a deduction of 1/4th of a mark. spreads are trademarks offered to the questions and therefore questions may be 0.5 mark, a mark or marks 2.
CAT test is conducted once a year in November or December and who have graduated with marks of at least 50% total are eligible to sit for it. Besides those in the final examination of graduation are also eligible to appear in CAT.
Pattern Review
Although the pattern of CAT test is not consistent, usually 75-100 number of questions are asked in CAT. The brands may also vary from 0.5 mark, the mark or marks a 2 in a correct answer, and the deduction of one fourth or one third would expect from a wrong answer. CAT test is conducted to test the applicant's ability in the following areas that are
Verbal or
or Reading Comprehension
Problem or Solution
or interpretation of data
or logical reasoning
o Data Sufficiency
Mathematics or Problems
The pattern of this test has often been changed in the past.
2005 test pattern consisted of:
Three sections of interpretation or data / reasoning, quantitative analysis, and reading comprehension / verbal ability.
or duration-2 hours
or total number Question-90
O Negative marking-third of the mark assigned to a single correct answer
or total number of questions in DI/Reasoning- 30
or total number of questions in the qualitative analysis-30
or total number of questions in reading comprehension / verbal ability-30
The three sections took 50 points each.
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