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Over 25,000 from city hope to bell the CAT
November 16, the big date for Common Admission Test (CAT) aspirants is now just a day away. A good CAT score will enable stude-nts to make the cut into the second round of interviews for a shot at one of the 2,000 seats available at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and close to 12,000 seats at 114 other management institutes.
Nearly 2.5 lakh students, including 25,000 from Bangalore will appear for the exam across 23 cities in the country. Bangalore alone has 24 examination centres this year. Neeraj Dwivedi, chairman of Admissions at IIM Indore said that the IIMs were working on offering the exam online from next year which would make it probably the last CAT to be conducted in a written exam format. This year a new IIM at Shillong called RGIIM will have an intake of 60 students.
“We have told our students to expect the unexpected,” said Ajay Arora, Bangalore-based director of TIME, which is a CAT coaching institute.
He said in the recent years, the number of questions had seen reduction and that students had been trained on various possibilities.
CAT 2007 had 75 quest-ions where an analysis by coaching institute Career Launcher showed that stude-nts had found Data Interpretation (DI), with a mix of calculations and logic to be on the easier side.
Data Sufficiency in its old format reappeared in CAT after a span of three years, more so in two different sections. Students say they would not want a repeat of last year where quantitative ability (QA) proved to be difficult. In verbal ability (VA), the number of reading comprehension (RC) passages were more than CAT 2005, though they were not as lengthy.
The analysis showed that even though CAT 2007 did not pose any surprise, pattern wise, with the number of questions remaining 75 as last year, the level of difficulty had increased by a notch or two.
Source:
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=340199
Nearly 2.5 lakh students, including 25,000 from Bangalore will appear for the exam across 23 cities in the country. Bangalore alone has 24 examination centres this year. Neeraj Dwivedi, chairman of Admissions at IIM Indore said that the IIMs were working on offering the exam online from next year which would make it probably the last CAT to be conducted in a written exam format. This year a new IIM at Shillong called RGIIM will have an intake of 60 students.
“We have told our students to expect the unexpected,” said Ajay Arora, Bangalore-based director of TIME, which is a CAT coaching institute.
He said in the recent years, the number of questions had seen reduction and that students had been trained on various possibilities.
CAT 2007 had 75 quest-ions where an analysis by coaching institute Career Launcher showed that stude-nts had found Data Interpretation (DI), with a mix of calculations and logic to be on the easier side.
Data Sufficiency in its old format reappeared in CAT after a span of three years, more so in two different sections. Students say they would not want a repeat of last year where quantitative ability (QA) proved to be difficult. In verbal ability (VA), the number of reading comprehension (RC) passages were more than CAT 2005, though they were not as lengthy.
The analysis showed that even though CAT 2007 did not pose any surprise, pattern wise, with the number of questions remaining 75 as last year, the level of difficulty had increased by a notch or two.
Source:
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=340199
