CAT (Common Admission Test) Exam is a computer-based management aptitude test held each year by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for shortlisting the candidates for MBA programs offered by the premier management institutes.
CAT exam is an essential criterion for admission into more than 100 management foundations across India. Other Indian business schools like IITs, FMS, S P Jain, MDI, and NITIE also accept CAT scores as part of their selection process. The CAT exam is held each year by IIM's on the rotational basis, whose Exam Dates are usually announced in the month of August.
The CAT score is utilized independently by each foundation along with different parameters i.e. work experience, academic performance, written assessment, group discussion and interview performance etc. to select applicants. The weightage assigned to CAT score may contrast for each foundation. Applicants are advised to read the weightage, process, and breakup for each establishment on its individual site.
Any person who has a Bachelor's degree with at least 50% marks or comparable CGPA (45% if the students belonging to Persons with Disability (PWD)/Differently Able (DA) and Scheduled Caste (SC) class) can apply for CAT Exam.
IIM'S also holds 15% seats for SC applicants, 7.5% seats for ST candidates and 27% seats for NC-OBC applicants. 3% seats are also reserved for Persons with Disabilities, concerning government norms.
General Eligibility:
Category | Percentage |
PWD | 3% |
ST | 7.50% |
SC | 15% |
OBC | 27% |
Qualifying Examinations:
Students need to qualify/appearing in any one of the following examinations to get qualified for CAT:
There will be 3 Sections in CAT 2017
CAT Exam Format |
|
Quantitative ability (QA) |
34 |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) |
32 |
Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC) |
34 |
Total No. of Questions |
100 |
Here are the CAT 2017 test centers:
Asansol |
Coimbatore |
Jalgaon |
Shimoga |
Burdwan |
Madurai |
Kolhapur |
Tumkur |
Bishnupur |
Namakkal |
Mumbai |
Udupi |
Durgapur |
Ajmer |
Nagpur |
Belgaum |
Howrah |
Alwar |
Nanded |
Bengaluru |
Kalyani |
Jaipur |
Nashik |
Bidar |
Hooghly |
Jodhpur |
Navi Mumbai |
Chikballapur |
Kolkata |
Kota |
Pune |
Davanagere |
Siliguri |
Sikar |
Ratnagiri |
Hasan |
Dehradun |
Udaipur |
Satara |
Dhanbad |
Roorkee |
Fatehgarh Sahib |
Solapur |
Jamshedpur |
Agra |
Jalandhar |
Thane |
Ranchi |
Ghaziabad |
Ludhiana |
Bhopal |
Jammu |
Gorakhpur |
Mohali |
Gwalior |
Simla |
Allahabad |
Pathankot |
Indore |
Gurgaon |
Bareilly |
Patiala |
Jabalpur |
Palwal |
Greater Noida |
Ropar |
Sagar |
Panipath |
Kanpur |
Sangrur |
Kasaragod |
Rohtak |
Mathura |
Puducherry |
Kochi |
Sonipath |
Meerut |
Balasore |
Kollam |
Ambala |
Lucknow |
Berhampur |
Kozhikode |
Bahadurgarh |
Varanasi |
Bhubaneswar |
Malappuram |
Faridabad |
Hyderabad |
Cuttack |
Thrissur |
Ahmedabad |
Karim Nagar |
Rourkela |
Trivandrum |
Anand |
Khammam |
Sambalpur |
Kolar |
Gandhinagar |
Chennai |
Shillong |
Mandya |
Rajkot |
Thanjavur |
Ahmednagar |
Mangalore |
Surat |
Tiruchirappalli |
Amravati |
Mysore |
Vadodara |
Tirunelvelli |
Aurangabad |
Ramnagara |
Madgaon |
Verna |
New Delhi |
Raipur |
Bhillai |
Chandigarh |
Aurangabad |
Gaya |
Muzaffarpur |
Patna |
Purnea |
Dibrugarh |
Guwahati |
Itanagar |
Chittoor |
Kurnool |
Nellore |
Tirupati |
Vijayawada |
Visakhapatnam |
Port Blair |
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