CAT is the entrance examination for admission to MBA programmes in all the 20 IIMs and as many as 1000 articipating non IIMs. To be eligible for CAT, you should have completed your Bachelor's degree in any stream eith a minimum aggregate of 50%. It is 50% for General Category and 45% for Reserved Categories. You need to be atleast in your Final year of Graduation to be eligible for CAT. Your admission to Colleges will be subjective to the fulfillment of eligibility criteria of CAT if you are appearing for CAT in your final year.

CAT is an online examination of 3 hours duration.The questions in the exam will be of MCQ and TITA type totaling 100 questions. MCQ are multiple choice questions, for which candidates get multiple answer choices. Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark. However Type in the Answer questions are exempted from Negative Marking.

CAT exam paper can be Categorised into 3 parts:

Quantitative Ability
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

The Verbal Ability section and Reading Comprehension has 34 Questions, Data interpretation-Logical Reasoning section has 32 MCQ questions and Quantitative Ability has 34 MCQ questions totalling up to 100 questions. Each Question has 3 marks and a wrong answer takes away 1 mark.

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