CAT Exam 2023: As per the trends, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM L) conduct the CAT Exam 2023. CAT Exam is Conducted by one of the first generations IIMs every year. CAT 2202 Exam is conducted by IIM Bangalore. Around 2.5 lakhs students registered for CAT Exam and approximately 2.22 student seat in the Exam. Expected CAT Exam is Nov 26, 2023.
In 2017 CAT Exam is conducted by IIM Lucknow. In 2017 approx. 1.3 Lakh students registered for CAT Exam and 2 lakhs seat in the exam.
For the Admission to IIM for 2024 batch seat is approx. 7000 (All the 2O IIMs).
More than 200 Private Business Schools (SPJIMR, MDI Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI Delhi, GIM Goa, TAPMI, NITIE, FORE School of Management, IFMR GSB and others, 12 NITs (SOM NIT Warangal, SOM NIT Rourkela and others, 20 IIMs, 11 IITs (SJMSOM IIT B, VGSOM IIT K, DMS IIT D, DoMS IIT Madras and others.) and government colleges accepting CAT Score (FMS DU)
Interested and eligible candidates are requested to apply for the registration process before the closure date so that they do not miss the opportunity. Going by the trend, it is safe to assume that it will be held in 3 slots. This year the CAT Exam is being conducted by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM B), under the leadership of Prof. Ashis Mishra, faculty IIM B who is the convener of CAT 2022.
CAT 2022 – All you ever wanted to know
CAT 2022 registration process to commence today (July 03, 2022): Check exam date, paper pattern, syllabus. The Indian Institutes of Management will conduct a computer- based Common Admission Test 2022 (CAT 2022) on November 27, 202 in three sessions.
CAT is undoubtedly the most popular test for aspirants of MBA / PGDM.
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Prof. Ashis Mishra is an Associate Professor in Marketing, and has been assigned the role of Chairperson, Admissions & Financial Aid at IIM B. Prof. Mishra has been teaching in the area of marketing at IIM Bangalore since the year 2004. Prior to this, he worked as faculty in marketing at XLRI Jamshedpur and TAPMI Manipal. His research interests are in retail strategy, retail consumer behavior, retail atmospherics, merchandising and category management in emerging economies.
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The CAT exam is conducted for admission to post graduate management programmes offered at 20 IIMs and all other top B Schools of the country. The 20 IIMs include the seven flagship IIMs and 13 newer IIMs. As NITIE gets rechristened, the country will get one more IIM, making the total count to 21.
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Other than IIMs, FMS Delhi University, JBIMS, UBS Chandigarh, all IIT – Business Schools, DMS NIT, private management institutes like SPJIMR, MDI Gurgaon, NITIE, XIMB, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI Delhi, FORE School, Tapmi, GIM Goa, IRMA, and 100+ B Schools accept CAT Score.
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How to Apply: Candidates can apply for CAT 2022 online through the official site of IIM CAT. The last date to register for CAT this year is Sep 15, 2022 (Tentative).
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Important Dates
| CAT | Common Admission Test |
| CAT Exam Date 2023 |
Nov 26, 2023 (Tentatively) |
|
Conducting Body |
IIM Lucknow |
| CAT Exam Shift |
3 Shift |
|
CAT Exam Mode |
Online |
| CAT Exam Time |
2 Hours |
|
CAT Registration Date |
1st week of Aug 2023 (Tentatively) |
| CAT Registration closing |
3rd week of Sep 2023 (Tentatively) |
|
CAT Exam Fees 2023 |
2400 |
| How to Apply for CAT Exam 2023 |
Application process is online only |
|
Cat Result Date |
2nd week of Jan 2024 |
More than 2 Lac candidates appear in the CAT exam every year. Last year 2.41 Lacs candidates had registered and applied for the CAT while 2.09 Lac sat in the exam.
CAT Registration Trends: (All Data in lakhs)
| Year | No. of Registered | No. Of Appeared |
| 2022 | 2.550 | 2.220 |
| 2021 | 2.300 | 1.910 |
| 2020 | 2.300 | 1.900 |
| 2019 | 2.440 | 2.090 |
| 2018 | 2.400 | 2.090 |
| 2017 | 2.310 | 1.996 |
| 2016 | 2.320 | 1.950 |
| 2015 | 2.160 | 1.796 |
| 2014 | 1.969 | 1.670 |
Eligibility for CAT 2023: The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [45% in the case of candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons with Disability (PwD) categories], awarded by any University or educational institution as incorporated by
an Act of Parliament or State legislature in India or declared to be deemed as an University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognised by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
Candidates applying for CAT 2022 should fulfill any one of the following conditions:
● Completed Bachelor’s degree with the required percentage of marks*.
● Completed professional degree (CA/CS/ICWA/Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of India (FIAI)) with required percentage*.
● Should be in the final year of Bachelor’s degree with required percentage*.
*SC/ST/PwD candidates should have a minimum 45%. For General, EWS and NC-OBC candidates, the minimum is 50%.
Reservation: As per the legal requirements, 15% of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates, 27% for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the “Non-Creamy” layer (NC-OBC), up to 10% for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates and 5% for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwD).
CAT 2022 Exam Pattern : The duration of the test will be 120 minutes. There will be three sections:
Section I: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension; Section II: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning; Section III: Quantitative Ability.
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Year
|
VA
|
DI-LR
|
Quant |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAT 2021 | VARC 26. RC -18 (All MCQs), Verbal-8 (Non MCQs) | DILR 24. DI-14, LR-10, MCQs-18, Non-MCQs-6 | Total 26. MCQs-18; Non-MCQs-8 |
| CAT 2020 | VARC 26. RC -18 (All MCQs), Verbal-8 (Non MCQs) | DILR 24. DI-14, LR-10, MCQs-18, Non-MCQs-6 | Total 26. MCQs-18; Non-MCQs-8 |
| CAT 2019 | VARC-34. RC-24, (All MCQs), Verbal-10 (non MCQs) | DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8 | Total-34. MCQs 23, Non-MCQs-11 |
| CAT 2018 | VARC-34. RC-24, (All MCQs), Verbal-10 (2 MCQs, 7 non MCQs) | DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8 | Total-34. MCQs 22, Non-MCQs-12 |
| CAT 2017 | VARC-34. RC-24, (All MCQs), Verbal-10 (3 MCQs, 7 non MCQs) | DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8 | Total-34. MCQs 23, Non-MCQs-11 |
| CAT 2016 | VARC-34, RC-24, (All MCQs), Verbal-10 (All non MCQs) | DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8 | Quant-34, MCQ-27, Non-MCQs-7 |
| CAT 2015 | VARC -34, RC-24 (MCQs), Verbal-10 (Non MCQs) | DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8 | Quant-34, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-10 |
| CAT 2014 | 50 VARC-34 LR-16 | – | 50 Quant-34 DI-16 |
MBA Applications 2023. IIM Placements 2022
IIMs Fees, Program offered & Average Salary
| IIMs | Program Name | Seats | Fees | Avg Salary'20 | Avg Salary'21 | Avg Salary'22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IIM Ahmedabad | MBA, MBA FABM | 385 | 28 | 26.1 | 26.5 | N.A |
| IIM Amritsar | MBA | 240 | 12 | 12.6 | 13 | 14.6 |
| IIM Bangalore | MBA | 565 | 23 | 26.18 | 28.98 | 33.5 |
| IIM Bodhgaya | PGP, PGP SM | 120 | 10.6 | 9.8 | 10.5 | 12.3 |
| IIM Calcutta | PGP | 462 | 27 | 27.9 | 29 | 34.1 |
| IIM Indore | PGP, IPM | 450 | 16 | 22.9 | 23.08 | 25 |
| IIM Jammu | MBA, MBA Tourism | 210 | 13.8 | 10.64 | 10.5 | 11.5 |
| IIM Kashipur | MBA, MBA BA | 325 | 14.6 | 13.82 | 14.05 | N.A |
| IIM Kozhikode | PGP, PGP Finance | 550 | 21 | 23.09 | 22.5 | 29 |
| IIM Lucknow | PGP, PGM ABM | 450 | 19 | 24.2 | 25.1 | 26 |
| IIM Nagpur | MBA | 240 | 13.75 | 13.1 | 13 | 15.3 |
| IIM Raipur | MBA | 300 | 14.2 | 15.53 | 15.5 | 17.5 |
| IIM Ranchi | MBA, MBA HRM, BA | 300 | 15.3 | 15.11 | 14.9 | N.A |
| IIM Rohtak | MBA, IPM | 300 | 15.3 | 13.7 | 13.7 | 17.5 |
| IIM Sambalpur | MBA | 120 | 13 | N.A | N.A | N.A |
| IIM Shillong | MBA | 300 | 14.6 | 18.7 | 19.6 | 23.1 |
| IIM Sirmaur | MBA | 120 | 11.7 | N.A | N.A | N.A |
| IIM Trichy | MBA, MBA HRM | 210 | 17 | 14.9 | 14.9 | 17.1 |
| IIM Udaipur | MBA | 240 | 13 | 13.8 | N.A | N.A |
| IIM V | MBA, MBA HRM | 120 | 13.5 | 13.08 | 13 | 15.1 |
CAT Admit Card 2022: The admit card for CAT 2022 needs to be downloaded from the official website. It is usually released in the first week of Nov 2022. CAT 2022 Admit Card displays information regarding your exam center ‘address, reporting time, exam timing, google map link to locate the center, and other requisite exam day instructions.
CAT 2022 Exam Date: CAT exam will be held on Nov 27, 2022 (tentatively). As per trends, the CAT Exam 2022 is conducted by IIM Bangalore. Exam held in three sessions with 2 hours duration.
CAT 2022 Result Date: As per trends CAT Result will be available between Jan 07-10, 2023. For more updates follow this page and check the official website.
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