Commom Admission Test (CAT)

The Common Admission Test (CAT) is an entrance test conducted by IIM for the management program of its six IIMs . CAT is also adopted by the other top B-schools of India like MDI, SP jain, TA Pai..Etc.
CAT looks for candidates who have ability to conceptualize, assume, analyze, and take decision out of alternatives. As the other aptitude exams it also tests the candidates aptitude through a few topics listed below.

The duration of the test is 2 hours and 30 minutes including initial 15 minute tutorial. No breaks will be given during the test. The test consists of questions that evaluate a candidate’s quantitative, verbal, and logical & data interpretive abilities. Therefore, there are a total of three sections in the test. There will be about 60 to 70 questions in the test.

At the test venue, each candidate will be seated at a desk with a computer terminal and he/she will be provided with a scratch paper for calculations. After the test, candidate must leave the scratch paper at the desk. Rough work cannot be done on any other paper/sheet, as nothing will be allowed inside the testing room.

Point to be noted that marking wrong option imposes a penalty of negative mark.

Quantitative ability

The purpose of this section is to test the candidate's ability of problem solving. This section contains the multiple choice questions of MATHEMETICS. The list of chapters are given below.

Verbal ability and Reading Comprehension

Verbal ability mainly tests your English grammar and understanding skills of English. Therefore keep an eye to Reading Comprehension test the ability to understand and reading skills. Speed reading and grasping the central idea of the passage will help getting good score in Reading comprehension. The passages may come from verity of areas such as science, sports, and entertainment.etc

The type of questions you see in verbal ability are follows

Data Interpretation

In this section data is presented before you in the various forms such as tables, Pie charts, graphs.etc. A candidate has to interpret the data and answer the question followed by data. This section mainly tests candidates the ability to interpret and act according to given data. The DATA can be presented in any of forms below.

Data Sufficiency

In Data sufficiency questions you will be presented with a statement that is followed by two other statements, the candidate has to tell whether the given statements are enough to solve the question. Interestingly he doesn't need to solve the question but he/she has to answer whether this question is solvable or not. This type of question tests confirms candidates? ability to understand and ability to identify the missing data of problem.

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Analytical and Logical Reasoning

In this section, questions will be given to test your ability to solve the logical problems and analytical problems. The logical puzzles are given followed by some typical questions, you need to interpret the logic and answer the questions. The puzzles can be of various types, such as Direction Puzzles, Relations ship puzzles, symbol based problems.

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