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CAT— |
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The
Common Admission Test or CAT as it is popularly known, is a multiple
choice written exam designed to test a candidate’s ability &
aptitude, under a time constraint. Held by the IIMs, CAT has now become
the entrance examination for several other leading institutes such as
MDI, S.P Jain & others. |
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Held
on the second Sunday of December, CAT has test venues spread across
the country thus ensuring participation from the country’s best. |
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A
Brief Overview |
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Knowledge,
as it should be is the prerequisite for this examination but its unique
feature remains its unpredictability. |
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Although
the examination details have outlined the course covered as spread over
4 distinctive sections of Quantitative Aptitude (QA), Data Interpretation
(DI), Reading Comprehension (RC) & Verbal Ability (VA) the actual
paper need not have any preset pattern or division of sections. |
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The
other features, which require mention, are Negative Marking & Adequate
Competence across all sections. Though the actual extent of negative
marking remains undisclosed, it is an integral part of evaluation. Adequate
Competence across all sections requires of a student to perform in all
sections to a certain minimum level & once again though under the
purview of the evaluation committee, section cutoffs must be catered
to during preparation. |
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Individual
Sectional Insight |
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Quantitative
Ability (QA) |
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The
questions are designed to stress more on reasoning skills of the candidates,
rather than on their computational skills. The level of difficulty of
this section is perceived to be higher because the questions are not
only lengthy to read but at times require more effort in terms of understanding
and solving. Data Interpretation (DI) |
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As
the name suggests, this section presents data to the candidate in forms
such as caselets, pie diagrams, bar graphs, etc and questions are set
to evaluate the candidate’s skills at analyzing the given information.
Data Sufficiency questions in this section are based on basic mathematics (at times Data Sufficiency is a part of the Quantitative Ability section). Reading Comprehension (RC) |
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Verbal
Ability (VA) |
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This
section explores your understanding of the English Language and also
tests you on Reasoning Skills. The questions in this section typically
comprise sentence correction, sentence sequencing , verbal reasoning
etc. |
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