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What is cat exam? I'm BSC zoology hons student can i attend exam cat?


Ahasan Khan 26th Feb, 2019
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Kshitij Anand 28th Feb, 2019

Yes you are eligible to attend CAT exam.Now comming to what is CAT.

What CAT is all About?

CAT examination held every year for admission in the Post-Graduate Business Administration Programme for the various IIM, IIT, NITs and much other Government and private institutions located in India. The CAT which stands for Common Admission Test conducts all India level examination arrange by IIM totally based on the rotation policy. The exam is aimed at checking logical reasoning, verbal ability, data interpretation, and quantitative ability of the applicant.

CAT 2019 Application Form

The August is the fixed month for availing the application so that applying for CAT 2019 is much easier. It is too early to inform about the date because it is almost seven months to fetch the application. Candidate needs to visit the official site http://www.iimcat.ac in order to acquire and fill the form. The applicant is required to choose three cities of their own choice and based on this choice, the applicant is allotted with the exam center after application form is submitted.

CAT 2019 Eligibility Criteria

As it is already known that CAT exam is to get admitted for the courses like PGPEM, PGP, PGP-ABM, PGPBM, PGP-UAE, PGPWE, PGPPM, EPGPM, PGP-Mumbai, PGPSM, PGDHRM, PGDM, and PGPEX so applicant should go through the eligibility criteria to acknowledge that whether he/she is fit to appear in this exam or not.

  • Candidate should have done graduation level courses in any of the streams
  • Minimum marks attained in graduation level course fixed at 50% marks or have done with equivalent CGPA. However, reserved category candidates can apply if 45% marks are gained.
  • If the candidate is in the final year of the graduation course then he/she can also appear in CAT 2019 examination.

Apart from eligibility, exam date, and application form info get necessary information connected to CAT which is available over here.

  • Reserved seats for SC Candidates: 15%
  • Reserved seats for ST candidates: 7.5%
  • Reserved seats for OBC: 27%
  • Reserved seats for the person with disabilities: 3%

This pattern of percentage can be changed as per the year by Government of India

mdsameenabanu Student Expert 26th Feb, 2019

HI,

Yes any graduate can give it may it be from medical background or engineering background


The Common Admission Test (CAT) is a computer based test held in India. The test scores a candidate on the bases of Quantitative Ability (QA), Verbal Ability (VA) and Reading Comprehension (RC), Data Interpretation (DI) and Logical Reasoning (LR).


CAT is an all India examination for entrance to prestigious IIMs. Other MBA institute use CAT scorr as well for their admission Criteria. If you score well in CAT ,then it will definayely help you in securing admission in a good B-School. Although it is just a part of admission process, it has a considerable weightage in most admission processes. 




                         


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