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  • CAT dates announced, state gets 3 centres.

    About 15,000 students from Andhra Pradesh will appear for the Common Admission Test (CAT) from Saturday for admissions into prestigious Indian Institutes of Managements (IIMs) and other top business schools across the country. For the third year in a row, CAT is being conducted online. The exam was conducted in “paper-pencil format” till 2009.

    The online Common Admission Test will be held from October 22 to November 18. Prometric, the firm that conducts the online test, has set up three centres in Andhra Pradesh. While two of the centres are located in Hyderabad, one is in Visakhapatnam. In Hyderabad, the test will be held at MLR Institute Of Technology, Dundigal, and at Prometric Testing Pvt. Ltd, Banjara Hills.

    The exam will start at 10 am (first slot) and again at 3.15 pm (second slot). Students need to report to the centres 90 minutes before the exam time. According to the data from IIMs, the expected number of CAT aspirants this year is 2.05 lakh. They will be competing for approximately 3,000 seats in 13 IIMs. The exam will be on for 140 minutes. Moreover, it will have only two sections instead of three.

    Source : DC

  • No surprises on first day of CAT.

    The online Common Admission Test (CAT) of the IIMs went off smoothly on the first day at the two centres in the city. A majority of the students who appeared for the exam on the first day on Saturday said the paper was easy, and had no surprises, while some students said the paper was slightly difficult. Some students were of the view that the first section, which contains quantitative ability and data interpretation was slightly more difficult than the second section which had verbal ability, reading comprehension and logical reasoning.

    Students felt that section-II was marginally easier than the first section as there were enough sets of logical reasoning, which were easy. However, the students refused to comment on record saying that the ‘non-disclosure agreement’ with IIMs prohibits them from talking about the exam paper and exam pattern. According to CAT coaching experts, all the students were not given the same question papers even in the same slot. They said some students got data sufficiency questions in the paper in the first slot and some others did not.

    They said the number of questions in each area of verbal ability also varied. About 15,000 students from Andhra Pradesh registered for CAT this year. The exam was held at the MLR Institute of Technology, Dundigal and at Prometric Testing Pvt. Ltd, Banjara Hills. The exam for students in the first slot was held from 10 am and for the second slot from 3.15 pm. The exam lasted 140 minutes this year compared to 135 minutes last year. According to data from the IIMs, the number of CAT aspirants this year is estimated at 2.05 lakh. There are around 3000 seats in the IIMs.

    Source : DC

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