Hello Aspirant,

Let us start with CAT, Common Admission Test, in short CAT is conducted by any of the IIM in rotation every year , it is a computer-based entrance exam conducted for MBA/PGDM admissions at 20 IIMs and 1000+ B-Schools in India. Candidates who have completed graduation with 50% of marks are eligible to apply for IIM CAT 2021. As per the new paper pattern the paper is of total 228 marks and it will consists of 76 total number of questions divided in three sections namely VARC, DILR and QA. Out of these 76 questions, 54 question will be of MCQ type and other 22 will be Non-MCQ. For every correct answer 3 marks will be awarded and on incorrect answer -1 will be deducted only from MCQs not from Non-MCQs. For complete exam pattern(latest) of CAT kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-exam-pattern You can get complete information about CAT 2021 from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat

Now coming to CMAT, Computer Based Common Management Admission Test in short CMAT and it is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admissions to around 1000 AICTE approved B-Schools. The CMAT paper will be conducted according to it's latest pattern prescribed by NTA according to which CMAT 2021 is a 3-hour test with MCQs from Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension, and General. Each section will have 25 questions for 100 marks.

For complete details about CMAT kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cmat

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!