CAT – Common Admission Test is a gateway for doing MBA in top b-schools in India. Every year CAT exam will be held in the month of November. CAT examination will be conducted by IIM’s every year. Last year it was conducted by IIM Bangalore, this year it was going to conducted by IIM’s (College info yet to declare). Aspirants are expecting some changes in the test pattern like every year speculations. CAT notification is going to release in the month of July 2017. Online application process will start in August 2017. The exam is going to conduct in the month of November. check out the cat syllabus from the below.
CAT Syllabus 2017 (Official Exam) – Check here @ iimcat.ac.in:
CAT entrance exam for MBA started in the year 1991. From the year 1991 to 2008 it was paper based test. In 2009, it went online and the exam was conducted test window period. Aspirants need to book the date in the test window period. They need to appear for test on that particular date.
From 2009 to 2013, CAT was conducted in the test window period. In 2014, CAT exam conducted in 2 days windows period 2 slots per day which is 4 slots overall. Back then, last year CAT happened in a single day window and 2 sessions morning and afternoon. All the years IIMs always likes to throw some surprises over aspirants and they want to update the content regarding present scenarios. But, most of the content remains same.
All the years IIMs always likes to throw some surprises over aspirants and they want to update the content regarding present scenarios. But, most of the content remains same. There will be change in weightage given to certain topics in corresponding sections. Last year it happened with Verbal Ability. In 2014, Verbal Ability covers 34% of the overall weightage. In verbal Ability 47% covered by Reading Comprehension and 53% covered by Verbal ability topics. But it was surprised to know before last 1 month. Reading Comprehension weightage increased to 70 from 47.
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Till now, IIM’s never proposed exact cat syllabus but going through past trends and CAT previous papers of 1991-2008. Everyone follows the fixed topics and its suffice to score good percentile in CAT examination. Here we listed out the topics covered in CAT syllabus.
CAT 2017 Syllabus | CAT Exam:
Quantitative Ability (QA):
- Numbers
- Arithmetic
- Geometry & Mensuration
- Algebra
- Modern Math
Data Interpretation (DI):
- Pie Charts
- Bar Graphs
- Data Missing Tables
- Miscellaneous Charts
Logical Reasoning (LR):
- Puzzle-Type Sets
Reading Comprehension (RC):
- Reading Comprehension
Verbal Ability (VA):
- Para Jumbles
- Para Summaries
- Para Completion
In the last 2-3 years of CAT examination, There is no grammar part in VARC section.
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