CAT Exam 2022 : CAT Exam is expected to be held on the 4th week of November 2022, i.e. Nov 27 (tentative) in 3 slots. As per trends CAT Exam is conducted by IIM B (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
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CAT Exam: CAT Answer Key 2021 and response sheets have been released today, on December 8, 2021. IIM Ahmedabad has said that candidates can raise objections on the provisional answer key till 5 pm on December 11, 2021.
CAT is undoubtedly the most popular test for aspirants of MBA / PGDM.
CAT 2021 registration process to commence today (Aug 04, 2021, 10 AM): Check exam date, paper pattern, syllabus. The Indian Institutes of Management will conduct a computer- based Common Admission Test 2021 (CAT 2021) on November 28, 2021 in three sessions. CAT Exam 2021: Admit Card to release tomorrow at 5 PM onwards
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IIM Ahmedabad is conducting CAT 2021. Prof (Dr.) M P Ram Mohan, faculty at IIM A will be the convener of CAT Exam 2021.
CAT 2021 registration process to commence today (Aug 04, 2021, 10 AM): Check exam date, paper pattern, syllabus. The Indian Institutes of Management will conduct a computer- based Common Admission Test 2021 (CAT 2021) on November 28, 2021 in three sessions. CAT Exam 2021: Admit Card to release tomorrow at 5 PM onwards,
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IIM Ahmedabad is conducting CAT 2021. Prof (Dr.) M P Ram Mohan, faculty at IIM A will be the convener of CAT Exam 2021.
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. 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 others accept CAT Score.
This year IIM Ahmedabad is coordinating for CAT 2021 with Prof. M P Ram Mohan heading at the helm of affairs. Prof. Ram Mohan is a faculty of Business Policy Area. He has done BA, LL.B, Mangalore University; LL.M, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; MPhil, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP).
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How to Apply: Candidates can apply for CAT 2021 online through the official site of IIM CAT on iimcat.ac.in. The last date to register for CAT this year is Sep 22, 2021.
Important Dates
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CAT Exam 2021 Notification | Last Week of July 2022 |
Application begins | 1st week of Aug 2022 |
Application Closed | 3rd week of Sep 2022 |
Admit Card available | Oct 27 Onwards |
CAT 2021 Exam | Nov 27th , 2022 (Tentative) |
CAT 2021 Exam Result | First week of Jan 2023 |
Registration fees | 2200 for all other candidates. |
Registration fees | 1100 for SC, ST and PwD candidates |
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:
Years | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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No of Registrations | 2.32 | 2.31 | 2.41 | 2.44 | 2.28 |
No of CAT Takers | 1.95 | 1.99 | 2.09 | 2.09 | 1.95 |
Eligibility for CAT 2022: 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 2021 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.
Year
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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 |
IIMs Fees, Program offered & Average Salary
IIMs | Program Name | Seats | Fees | Avg Salary'20 | Avg Salary'21 | Avg Salary'22 |
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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 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.
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