Common Admission test (CAT) 2019-Notification,Registration,Syllabus,Eligibility

The examination will be conducted once per year. In 2011, IIT's(Indian Institute Of Technology) and IIC's(Indian Institut Of Sciences) also started selecting students on the bases of the CAT score for the admissions in the management stream.

COMMON ADMISSION TEST NOTIFICATION:

Before entering into the topic we need to know what is the Common Admission Test(CAT).  

What is CAT....?

• The Common Admission Test(CAT) is for the undergraduates who wanted to study post-graduation in Indian Institute Of Management(IIM).

• IIM's started the examination for admissions in Business Administration  Program. Candidates will be selected on the bases on the score of Quantitative Ability(QA), Data Interpretation(DI), Logical Reasoning(LR), Verbal Ability(VA), Reading Comprehension(RC).

• The examination will be conducted once per year. In 2011, IIT's(Indian Institute Of Technology) and IIC's(Indian Institut Of Sciences) also started selecting students on the bases of the CAT score for the admissions in the management stream.

TEST NAME	Common Admission Test
EXAMINATION TYPE	ONLINE(Computer-based test)
ADMINISTRATOR	Indian Institute of Management(IIM)
TOPICS	Data Interpretation, Quantitative Ability, Logical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Data Sufficiency, Verbal Ability, Analytical Reasoning
YEAR STARTED	1950
EXAM DURATION	3 hours
RANGE OF GRADE	100 - 300
GRADE VALIDITY	1 year
EXAM OFFERED	Once per year
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA	Bachelor's Degree with 50% GPA or Marks. Final year UG also eligible
FEE	Rs.1800/- for general category And 900/- for ST, SC, PWD.

CAT EXAMINATION NOTIFICATION:

IMPORTANT DATES:

1. 7 - AUGUST 2019 - CAT REGISTRATION(2019) STARTS

2. 25 - SEPTEMBER 2019 - CAT REGISTRATION (2019) ENDS

3. 23 - OCTOBER 2019 - CAT ADMIT CARDS(2019)           DOWNLOADS STARTS

4. 24 - NOVEMBER 2019 - CAT 2019 EXAMINATION DAY

WEBSITE FOR CAT 2019 - Click here

HOW TO APPLY ONLINE:

• To Apply Online for CAT entrance exam 2019 you need to have 10 important documents with you which make the work simpler an easier

• These include mark sheet of 10th class to Bachelor Degree, Category Certificate(Caste Certificate), Scanned images and photos and signature, work experience certificate if there, Debit/Credit card for the application fee for cat examination.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

1. The Candidate should hold a bachelor's degree certificate with more than 50% marks or GPA for General Category and 45% for SC and ST Category and PWD(Persons with a disability).

2. The candidate's college must be recognized by the government or by the UGC act, 1956.

EXAM FORMAT:

There are two types of scores involved:

1. Raw score
2.scaled score

In the Raw score, the score is calculated based on the Questions given, Questions answered correctly, Questions answered incorrectly and the Questions that are unanswered.

TEST PATTERN AND DURATION:

The Exam Pattern for CAT changes according to every year. As per the questions according to the previous year,

The test consists of three sections:

1.Verbal and Reading Comprehension.
2. Quantitative Ability.
3. Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning.

Th Verbal & Reading Comprehension and Quantitative Ability have 34 questions each and Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning has 32 questions according to the question paper of 2015.

CAT REGISTRATIONS OVER THE YEARS:

CAT REGISTRATIONS OVER THE YEARS AS FOLLOWS:

  YEAR               NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS

2007	250,000
2008	290,000
2009	241,000
2010	204,000
2011	205,000
2012	214,000
2013	194,516
2014	196,988
2015	218,664
2016	232,434
2017	231,000