COMMON ADMISSION TEST (CAT)

INDIAN INSTITUTES OF MANAGEMENT:

Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bangalore, Bodh Gaya, Calcutta, Indore, Jammu, Kashipur, Kozhikode, Lucknow,  Nagpur,  Raipur, Ranchi, Rohtak, Sambalpur,  Shillong,  Sirmaur, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur,  Visakhapatnam

EXAM CONDUCTED :  NOVEMBER,  147 TEST CENTERS

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 Persons With Disability (PwD) categories], awarded by any University or educational institution as incorporated by an Act of the Parliament or State legislature in India or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.

ADMISSION PROCESS

Please note that 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 Discussion (GD) and Personal Interviews (PI). IIMs may additionally use other factors like previous academic performance of the candidates, relevant work experience, gender and academic diversity and other similar inputs in short listing and ranking of candidates at various stages of the admission process. The processes, academic cut-offs and the weights allocated to the evaluation parameters may vary across IIMs. For more information, refer the admissions policies of IIMs from their respective websites.

MATHEMATICS OR QUANTITATIVE SECTION 

Some of the core concepts in math’s and quant subjects are: 

ENGLISH OR VERBAL SECTION

Prominent topics in this section are:

ANALYTICAL REASONING SECTION

Important topics under AR :

DATA INTERPRETATION SECTION

Problems related to organized and unorganized data are quite common in this section.

CAT PATTERN 

Total marks of CAT paper is 300. Each question will carry 3 marks. There will be negative marking of -1 for each wrong answer.