CAT 2016 to be held on Dec 4
Posted on: 01/Aug/2016 10:05:21 AM
The CAT, or the Common Admission Test, will be held on Dec 4 this year. The exam is necessary to apply to prestigious business schools in the country, including the Indian Institutes of Management, or the IIMs.
An official statement released by the IIMs said the CAT 2016 will be conducted on a single day in two sessions. The exam will be conducted across 138 cities. Online registrations will begin on August 8 and students can register until September 22. Candidates will be given the option to select 4 cities in order of preference. Test cities and centres will be assigned to the candidates only after the last date for CAT 2016 registration. Hence candidates need not rush to block slots and sites in the initial days of registration. The duration of the exam will be 180 minutes. There will be three sections verbal ability, reading comprehension, data interpretation and logical reasoning, quantitative ability. Candidates will be allotted exactly 60 minutes for answering questions in each section and they cannot switch from one section to another while answering questions in a section. The results of the test will tentatively be released in the second week of January.
Course director of CAT at T.I.M.E said, There are no significant changes in the test pattern this year. The exam pattern is the same as that for CAT 2015. A sectional timing of 60 minutes, on-screen calculator, non-multiple choice questions from CAT 2015 are all present this year too.
