CAT2017: Number of women candidates rises

LUCKNOW: The number of women candidates registered for CAT2017, being conducted by IIM-L, has increased this year by 1.16% over last year’s tally.

Against total applicants of 231,067, this year 78,009 women candidates will take the examination. Last year 76,000 women candidates had written the exam. The number of male candidate this year is 153,027.

This year the number of transgender candidates also increased to 31 from 22 last year, said Prof Neeraj Dwivedi of IIM-L, who is convener of the CAT examination to be conducted on November 26 this year.

Number of physically challenged applicants is 910 against last year’s 921.

Meanwhile, registration for the Common Admission Test (CAT), gateway to IIMs and other leading B-schools, declined a bit this year. It had shot up to a seven-year high in 2016, with 232,434 candidates applying for the entrance test.

“The test, which will be held in two sessions of 180 minutes each, will have three sections. Section I will have verbal ability and reading comprehension; section II data interpretation and logical reasoning and section III will deal with quantitative ability,” Dwivedi said.

Some questions in each section may not be of multiple choice type and candidates will have to type direct answers online.