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Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)

Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010

The Indian Institutes of Management will conduct Common Admission Test (CAT) during a 20 day testing window between Wednesday, 27 October 2010 and Wednesday, 24 November 2010. CAT is conducted by IIMs as a pre-requisite for admission to various management programmes of IIMs. These programmes are:

A. Post Graduate Programmes in Management (PGPM)
IIM Ahmedabad
IIM Bangalore
IIM Calcutta
IIM Indore
IIM Kozhikode
IIM Lucknow
IIM Ranchi
IIM Rohtak
IIM Shillong

B. Fellow Programmes in Management (FPM) (Equivalent to PhD) of IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcuta, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode, and IIM Lucknow.

Eligibility: The candidates must hold a Bachelor's Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA (45% in case of the SC/ST/DA categories).
For details on eligibility visit www.catiim.in

Sale of CAT 2010 Vouchers:
The CAT 2010 Vouchers can be obtained from the selected branches of Axis Bank during the period from Monday, 30 August 2010 to Monday 27th September 2010 for Rs.1400/- (Rs.700/- for SC/ST candidates).

Axis Bank Branches: Visit the website www.catiim.in for exact locations of the Axis Bank branches where voucher sale is arranged.

Registration for CAT:
On purchasing the CAT 2010 Voucher, prospective candidates must log on to the website www.catiim.in to register for CAT 2010. Registration window opens on 30 August 2010 and closes on 30 September 2010.

Cat Score: A candidates CAT score card will be available to the candidates at the website www.catiim.in from 12th January 2011. Candidates must retain a print-out of their score card.

For complete details visit: www.catiim.in

About Common Admission Test (CAT)

Getting admission to one of the six IIM’s is not that easy. There are numerous challenges that are faced by the students who have to get admission in the IIM’s as well as in the other top b-schools.

Common Admission Test or CAT is one of the common entrance exams taken by the students who want admission in Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Bangalore and Ahemdabad. Besides the admission in IIMs, CAT also gives students the opportunity to get admission in some of the top b-schools such as MICA, S.P Jain Institute and others based on the percentile achieved in CAT entrance examination.

This entrance examination comprises of four sections that includes Reading Comprehension, Data Interpretation, Verbal Ability as well as Problem Solving. There are multiple choice questions that have to be answered and for every correct answer one mark is allotted. Also there is negative marking in the competitive examination wherein for each wrong answer 1/4th of a mark is taken away.  

This two hour test is the first step for the students who want to get admission to the IIM’s. After the declaration of the results, the short listed students are called for Group Discussion and personal interview. The scores of the entrance exam are comparative and the calculations are made on the percentile basis for the distinguished sections of examination as well as for the total.

CAT is one of the entrance tests that demands from the students the fundamental knowledge and also expertise in concepts. This exam is conducted once in a year on the second Sunday of December. It is essential for the candidate to be a graduate or the students appearing in their final year can also apply. Like other competitive tests, CAT has a focus on testing the basic qualities that are required by the managers which basically includes the passion to work hard, quick thinking power, smartness in availing the best alternate and most importantly determination or firmness. 

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Why Online CAT Exam Failed?

All the students who want to persue MBA in Indian reputable institutions take up the Common Admission Test. Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) organizes this exam and based on the CAT results, they short list the candidates who are eligible and Candidates are called for Group Discussion and Personal Interview. Written examinations were held till this year but the 2010 CAT exam is to be conducted online.

Unfortunately the first attempt of conducting CAT exams in online failed due to virus attack.  Many students were stranded in many centers across India as the first CAT online test failed due to overloading.  But the IIM said that the test failed due to small technical glitches.  The IIM said that there was some problem because the window of the computer based CAT took ten days to be introduced.  2.41 lakh students took up the online test and they had an entirely new experience.  The major problem was that the students found problems only in the logging session.  Exam centers at Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai and Bhopal faced the logging in problems.

Students who took up the exams on the second day also faced the same problem and were unable to complete the test.  The IIM officials made assurance that the test for the students who missed out this session would be conducted soon.  Prometric and NIIT partnered together to make this CAT test but was not successful. Anyways-proper analysis and proper research would prevent such incidences in future.

‘CAT’ should follow ‘MAT’

Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Business School, a Chandigarh Based,  NON-IIM member of the CAT group has demanded that on the pattern of MAT, CAT should also be conducted in both the formats ‘paper-pencil’ as well as ‘online’.

It is to be mentioned that on the First day of the exam itself CAT become big flop show. Due to ‘overload’, a lot of centers have had to cancel the CAT exam. Even on the 2nd day of the test around 50 centers were closed for repair.

Though the failure was on the part of delivery of the exam from the main server but still Dr. Kataria feels that many students, especially from rural areas, fail to cope up with the online format. He also added that the penetration of the computers in semi-urban and rural area is yet not satisfactory. Students should have option to choose any format as per their convenience.

Kataria also said that students should not panic after server crash because IIM’s and prometric had done good arrangements for the first ever online CAT. But technical snag may arise anywhere and anytime.

It is to be mentioned that MAT conducted by All India Management Association (AIMA) is in the both paper-pencil format as well as online format.

Online CAT

This was surely not the race for the top slot. Thousands of B-School aspirants who on Wednesday registered themselves on the first day for the coveted Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009, set to go online from this year, avoided taking the initial slots.

The online test gives options to students to choose the date and venue for the entrance exam that grants admissions to the IIMs and other 150 affiliated B-Schools in the country. The registration will be open till October 1 for the test that will be held across 32 centres over 10 days starting November 28. Last year, 2.7 lakh candidates appeared for the test, a number which is likely to shoot up this time.
Candidates who had to acquire a bank voucher before applying on the CAT site, were hesitant in choosing the first slots, to get feedback about the question patters from others who would take the earlier slots. With the exam being spread over 10 days, experts feel, the number of proxy candidates too would go up significantly this time. There is a likelihood of candidates sending in their friends to appear for the exam during the early slots and know the trend before taking the test themselves.

The first day of online registration led to confusion among the candidates who were unsure of a successful registration. Unlike ISB, where a candidate can revisit his online registration form by logging in and making changes until the last day of form submission, CAT registration is a one-time process and the acceptance notice is generated after 48 hours of form submission.

“Candidates are choosy about their test venue and time slot. So there was some rush on the first day of registration process that is expected to continue for some more days,’’ said Shiva Kumar, director, Career Launcher, a CAT training institute. “Few candidates want to appear on the first day as they want to wait and watch. In fact, several candidates who have applied for the first day slot are proxy candidates. They will provide feedback on the new question pattern,’’ said Sameer Rai, regional director (Gujarat) PT Education said.

Ajay Arora, director, Time Bangalore, said there was rush at the branches of Axis Bank that is disbursing vouchers for registration, especially among working professionals who want to take the test on Saturdays and Sundays. “The first day saw rush of candidates, among working professionals who have a more defined choice of venue and time,’’ he said.

Several candidates who missed out on certain sections while registering, rushed for re-registering, which amounted to a loss of Rs 1,400, the voucher price. “A candidate from our coaching centre forgot to fill his HSC marks in the form and was not sure if his form would be accepted. So, without waiting for the response after two days, he rushed to register again.

On the face of it, his form was accepted and he even got his admit card. However, he registered himself again to avoid rejection,’’ Mr Shiva Kumar added. Last year, as many as 7,637 applications was rejected by the CAT committee as they were not filled in properly. “There were confusions regarding registration instruction among the candidates, especially those on eligibility criteria,’’ said Hitesh Devalia of Endevor Coaching.

Source: Economic Times