CAT Exam: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode will release the Common Admission Test (CAT) notification in the first week of July 2205.
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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.
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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 2025 batch seat is approx. 7500 (All the 21 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)
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The most popular and most awaited Management Entrance Test of the country – the CAT 2024 will be a computer-based test to be held on November 24th this year, in three sessions.
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The CAT exam is conducted for admission to post graduate management programmes offered at 22 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 online through the official site of IIM CAT. The last date to register for CAT this year is Sep 15, 2025 (Tentative).
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Important Dates
| CAT | Common Admission Test |
| Exam Date | Nov 24, 2024 |
Conducting Body | IIM Calcutta |
| CAT Exam Shift | 3 Shift |
CAT Exam Mode | Online |
| CAT Exam Time | 2 Hours |
CAT Registration Date | 1st week of Aug 2024 (Tentatively) |
| CAT Registration closing | Sep 20th, 2024 |
CAT Exam Fees | 2500 |
| How to Apply for CAT Exam | Application process is online only |
Cat Result Date | Out on Dec 19, 2024 |
CAT Registration Trends: (All Data in lakhs)
| Year | No. of Registered | No. Of Appeared |
| 2024 | 3.3 | 2.93 |
| 2023 | 3.3 | 2.88 |
| 2022 | 2.550 | 2.22 |
| 2021 | 2.300 | 1.91 |
| 2020 | 2.300 | 1.90 |
| 2019 | 2.440 | 2.09 |
| 2018 | 2.400 | 2.09 |
| 2017 | 2.310 | 1.99 |
| 2016 | 2.320 | 1.95 |
| 2015 | 2.160 | 1.79 |
| 2014 | 1.969 | 1.67 |
Eligibility for CAT: 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 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 2023 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 | 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 |
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