Taking the Common Admissions Test (CAT) this year will be dearer by Rs 200. The price of the voucher — which goes on sale at Axis Bank branches between August 17 and September 26, 2011 — has been increased from Rs 1,400 of last year to Rs 1,600 for this year for the general category. […]

? Let’s face it, Quantitative Aptitude (QA) is the section that many absolutely dread. To top it, the importance of QA has only increased in the newly announced format of CAT 2011. As per a previous analysis on PaGaLGuY, this might increase the proportion of tough questions in the paper and smart selection of questions […]

Paragraph Completion or Deleted Sentences are an important part of the English section of the Common Admission Test (CAT) exam. And given the new format of the CAT, Para Completion (PC) or Deleted Sentences (DS) may well become a part of the Logical Reasoning section of the CAT, thus increasing the weightage of ‘English’ in […]

(Photo credit: albertogp123) Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will revert to accepting the Common Admission Test (CAT) score for shortlisting candidates for the MICA test (MICAT) for admissions to the 2012-14 batch. A minimum of 90 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) will be required to reach the MICAT stage, said GK Nair, […]

Editor’s note: This ia an analysis of the CAT 2011 test pattern changes by Ankur Agarwal, a guest author and an IIM Lucknow alumnus who works in a senior position at an Ahmedabad-based coaching institute. The views expressed here are his own. — (Original photo credit: terren) The new Common Admissions Test (CAT) pattern looks […]

(Photo credit: Everjean) If Verbal Ability is the first half of the English section of management entrance tests, then Reading and Comprehension (RC) makes up the second half. As the name suggests, RC comprises two parts — Reading + Comprehension. A CAT aspirant should be able to read at a fairly good speed and also […]

The Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET), used for admission to the two-year MBA programs offered by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) might be abolished starting this year. Instead, a candidate’s Common Admissions Test (CAT) score could be considered for the admission process, Professor MR Ravi, Vice Chairman, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), IIT […]

Photo credit: roblisameehan PGDM institutions across the country are free to accept CAT, XAT, MAT, ATMA and JMET scores and even conduct their own GD PI, the Supreme Court ruled today. An interim order to the effect which was passed on March 17, 2011 has been extended till the next academic year 2012-2013. The bench […]

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta’s Prof Janakiraman Moorthy, who is the Convenor for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 speaks about this year’s exam. Will there be changes in the CAT this year? Yes, but few. The CAT 2011 will have only two sections instead of three. The first section will focus on Quantitative […]

A right to information (RTI) query by an activist in Andhra Pradesh has revealed that both, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and Prometric were supposed to ‘ensure inclusive transition to take care of low-skilled computer applicants.’ This was one of the crucial points discussed at a meeting between IIMA and Prometric before the […]