Hi aspirant,

1. The Common Admission Test ( CAT ) is a highly competitive , computer - based entrance exam .
2. CAT is administered annually by one of the IIMs for admission to its postgraduate management programs (MBA) as well as those of multiple other top business schools in India .
3. It primarily assesses candidates' VARC , DILR , and QA skills.
4. The exam lasts 120 minutes , with 40 minutes allotted to each section .
5. The questions are a mix of multiple choice questions with negative marking for bad responses and type-in-the-answer questions with no negative marking .
6. Scoring is based on a raw score , which is then normalized across exam slots to account for differences in difficulty , yielding a scaled score and a percentile that represents a candidate's performance in comparison to other test takers .

CAT 2024 Question Paper With Solutions

You can also refer to the link given above for more information on the same.

All the best!

Hello Mehak,

CAT is a national-level MBA entrance exam conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for admission to:

21 IIMs (e.g., IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta) Over 1,200 B-schools across India (like FMS, SPJIMR, MDI, IMT, etc.).

Key features:

Exam name- CAT( common admission test)

Conducting body- One of the IIMs

Level- National

Mode- Online ( computer based test)

Duration- 2 hours

Official website- iimcat.ac.in

For each correct answer you'll be given +3 marks and for each wrong answer there is negative marking of +1, there will be no penalty for unattempted questions.

Eligibility: Must hold a Bachelor’s degree with at least 50% marks (45% for SC/ST/PwD).

Final year students can also apply.

Here is the link through which you can download the last year question paper of CAT exam:

(https://bschool.careers360.com/download/ebooks/cat-2024-question-paper).

Hope it helps.