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  • CAT-2011 from today.

    HYDERABAD : The Common Admission Test (CAT), the qualifying examination for admissions to the 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), will be held over a 28-day period between October 22 and November 18.

    The examination will start at 10 am (first section) and another at 3.15 pm (second section).

    There were two examination centres in Andhra Pradesh— MLR Institute of Technology, Dundigal and Prometric Testing Private Limited, Banjara Hills— both in Hyderabad. Students need to report at the test centre 90 minutes before the commencement of the examination to avoid last-minute stress.

    According to information, the expected number of candidates this year is 2.05 lakh for about 3,000 seats in 13 IIMs.

    This year’s CAT will have two sections as against three last year. The candidates will have 70 minutes’ time in each section to answer 30 questions in each.

    The examination will have an on-screen countdown timer. Once the time ends for the first section, the candidate will have to move to the second section and cannot to go back. The first section will focus on Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation, and the second on Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning.

    A 15-minute tutorial will be provided before the start of the test, and candidates are advised to go through it carefully before attempting the main examination.

    The total duration will be two hours and 35 minutes including the tutorial.

    Three new cities _ Bhilai, Jammu and Dehradun _ have been added to the previous 33 centres across the country.

    Prometric India is conducting the examination on behalf of the IIMs.

    Speaking to Express, Ramnath K, course director of Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME), said since CAT was replacing JMET, an admission test to pursue MBA at IITs, the aspirants need not take JMET separately as all the six IITs which are offering the MBA course decided to consider CAT score as eligibility. The prestigious University of Delhi, which used to conduct FMS (Faculty of Management Studies) examination to take admissions to all its management courses, had also decided to consider CAT score as eligibility, he said.

    Source : Indian Express

  • JMET to go, IITs to use only CAT score for admission.

    Admission to the management courses of the IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) will no longer require Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) scores. It was recently announced that JMET would be scrapped and the IITs would accept only the CAT scores.

    This move comes closely after the statement by the All Indian Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman, S.S. Mantha that there should be only one entrance exam for all MBA aspirants. While the HRD ministry, in a press release, said that it would not be possible to have one exam for all management programmes, this move by the IITs is expected to ease pressure on students, say academics.

    For the last four years, the IITs were accepting both the CAT and JMET scores. “There was a large number of students who took both the examinations. There is very little difference between the pattern of the two examinations, as both focus on assessing the aptitude of students,” says Prof. L.S. Ganesh, Department of Management Studies, IIT-Madras.

    The quantitative section of the JMET is, however, considered to be more aligned to mathematics. “It is a myth that the JMET is taken only by engineering graduates. IITs require the applicant to have completed four years of any graduation programme,” said Mr. Ganesh. The IITs will continue to lay emphasis on the section-wise score of applicants, rather than the percentile scores. “Even a small difference of 0.25 marks in every section will make a difference in the selection process, which is not effectively reflected in the percentile scores,” says Mr. Ganesh.

    Source : The Hindu

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