CAT2017 to be held on Nov 26 in two sessions
LUCKNOW: India’s biggest MBA entrance test, the Common Admission Test 2017 (CAT 2017), will be held on November 26 (Sunday) this year in two sessions. The registration will open on August 9 and close on September 20. The IIM-Lucknow, which is conducting the test, will release the notification in newspapers across the country on July 30. The duration of the test will be 180 minutes.
India’s biggest MBA entrance test, the Common Admission Test 2017 (CAT 2017), will be held on November 26 (Sunday) this year in two sessions. The registration for CAT 2017 will open on August 9 and will close on September 20.
The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L), which is conducting the test, will release the notification in newspapers across the country on July 30, 2017 (Sunday).
“The duration of the test will be 180 minutes,” said Prof Neeraj Dwivedi, convener, CAT 2017, highlighting some of the salient features of CAT. CAT scores are accepted by the 20 IIMs and more than a 100 B-schools across the country. Around 4,000 seats are offered through IIMs.
THREE SECTIONS
The test has three sections. Section I will have verbal ability and reading comprehension; section II will have data interpretation and logical reasoning and section III will deal with quantitative ability, he said.
Some questions in each section may not be of multiple choice type. Instead, direct answers will have to be typed online. The tutorials will clearly explain this.
“Also, we will allow use of basic onscreen calculator for computation. Candidates will be allotted exactly 60 minutes for answering questions in each section and they cannot switch from one section to another while answering questions in a section,” he said.
CAT 2017 will be conducted in test centres spread across approximately 140 test cities. Candidates will be given the option to select four test cities in order of preference.
“We will try our best to assign candidates to their first preferred city. In case it is not possible, they will be assigned a city following their given order of preference,” Prof Dwivedi added. However, candidates will not be able to select the session because it will be assigned randomly.