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It is now officially announced that cat 2009 is online. Now CAT exam will have to
be conducted in staggered batches within a window period of a few months. Not all students will be able to take the exam on the same day as is the case now. The other change will be that instead of the current single exam paper, the online test will have several different papers of the same level of difficulty.
CAT vs GMAT/GRE The online model will be similar to US exams like the GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) and the GRE (Graduate Record Examination).GRE and GMAT follows Computer Adaptive Test approach. The question naturally arises what is Computer Adaptive Test? A computer-adaptive testing is a method for administering tests that adapts to the examinee's ability level. Computer Adaptive Test successively selects questions so as to maximize the precision of the exam based on what is known about the examinee from previous questions. From the examinee's perspective, the difficulty of the exam seems to tailor itself to his or her level of ability. For example, if an examinee performs well on an item of intermediate difficulty, he will then be presented with a more difficult question. Or, if he performed poorly, he would be presented with a simpler question. Compared to static multiple choice tests that nearly everyone has experienced, with a fixed set of items administered to all examinees, computer-adaptive tests require fewer test items to arrive at equally accurate scores. So will the IIMs follow the same methodology to gauge the ability of examinee? For the time being it seems IIMs are not going to follow Computer Adaptive Test approach. But in near future this is going to be followed, as it is the best method available till now, to find the true ability of examinee. So CAT-2009 is going to be different from GMAT and GRE in following ways: 1. Results will not appear instantly (once the test is over). 2. It will not be Computer Adaptive Test (Question patterns changing as per examinee ability) Otherwise, everything seems to be on the same line as these International exams have. For example: 1. How Reading Comprehension will look like? An RC on the computer screen, where it appears vertically on the left half of the screen and the right half has questions. 2. Questions in quant appearing one by one. But it might be a possibility that you can navigate questions in forward and backward manner. To have a feel of all these you can navigate through different features of MindInsight. How MindInsight is going to help you? If you are a little bit scared of this new pattern, don't panic! Because MindInSight has ample features to help you tackle online test. And believe me all these things are not going to cost you a single penny. These are absolutely free as we are in promotional mode. To prepare yourself for online test you can go through different features of MindInsight.: 1. Take different BOWs: Verbal Bow, Quant Bow and DI Bow in online test simulated environment. 2. RC challenge: An online RC a day at MindInsight will keep your fear away. 3. CAT T20: A game simulating IPL for your CAT-2009 Test practice. 4. POTD & Verbal-shot: One problem to check your fundamental knowledge in Quant and Verbal. 5. Five Free Mock Tests: Launching soon on CAT-2009 online preparation pattern, so keep visiting "TestCenter" at MindInsight. |
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Common Admission Test or the CAT as it's popularly known, is a test held annually for admission to Post-graduate and Fellow Programs in management courses in several management institutes in India. This is a written examination organized by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). It is on the basis of CAT results that eligible candidates are short listed and called for Group Discussions and Personal Interviews. CAT is considered as an essential requirement for candidates seeking admission to the prestigious management institutes of India. The percentile secured in CAT is assessed by the B-Schools of the country to short-list candidates for admissions to their various MBA Programs. |
Important Dates
Issue of CAT bulletins 2008: |
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CAT has become one of the most competitive exams to judge the potential of the candidates willing to pursue their career in business administration. Also the placement records of these institutes with salary packages run into several lakhs made IIMs first and foremost choice among students. As popularity increases the number of students twisting their arms for this CAT exam also increases many fold over recent years. This naturally converges all the toughest youth minds of India over this exam and that makes the exam toughest that means which requires some serious preparation.CAT has been rated as the most difficult MBA entrance test in the world by the Economist Intelligence 2003 Survey Over the year many other institutes also accept this CAT score for their admission processes.Actually there is growing momentum to make CAT as a single entrance exam for all business schools in India.Also effort is undergoing to get world accrediation for CAT. |
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The examinations for CAT is conducted in a very strict sense and have the reputation of being one of the best exam conduction and student selection system round the world.
CAT is an aptitude test. There is no set or defined syllabus for the exam. what we can say about CAT is it is designed to assess the natural ability of a person towards their desired objective. Hence CAT is designed to test the inclination of the applicant towards managerial tasks and roles.
Mainly the questions are asked from
In Reading Comprehension, you will get a paragraph which you need to comprehend and answer the questions that follow the paragraph. In Verbal Ability, you will be tested in vocabulary, verbal reasoning, critical reasoning and grammar. What MindInsight Provides: To score heavily in Verbal Ability, MindInsight provides a variety of preparation materials.
Data Interpretation questions are based on some information like Table, Graphs, or Charts, based on which you will be asked to deduce further information. You will be tested on how quickly and correctly you can deduce the information required. In Data Sufficiency you will be tested on how to reason quantitatively. Given a set of conditions, mostly 2 of them, you will need to find out whether either of them, both of them, or none of them is required to make a deduction. What MindInsight Provides: To score heavily in DI & DS Ability, MindInsight provides variety of preparation materials.
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| Institutes Conducting CAT | |
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Institutes involved with CAT are 7 IIMs namely: |
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