CAT 2011: Uniform single exam for IIMs, IITs, IISc & FMS

2.05 lakh to appear in Common Admission Test 2011

PTI | Oct 7, 2011, 04.09PM IST

NEW DELHI: As many as 2.05 lakh candidates have registered for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 for admission to the prestigious IIMs and other B-schools.

The cities in which the highest number of candidates are scheduled to take the online test between October 22 and November 18 are New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune, a statement issued by Prometric, which is to conduct the exam, said today.

“The CAT 2011 voucher sales ended on October 1, and about 2.06 lakh vouchers were sold. The CAT 2011 registration window ended at midnight on October 4 with approximately 2.05 lakh registered CAT aspirants,” it said.

Last year 2.4 lakh candidates had registered for the test while in 2009 the registration figure was 2.48 lakh.

The statement said 73 per cent of the total number of candidates who have registered are male.

The test this year will have two sections instead of three earlier and students will have 70 minutes to answer each of them.

Prometric has said the next step for them after the registration is to prepare and check all testing locations to ensure candidates take the exam without difficulties.

“The candidates should also familiarise themselves with the test day procedures by viewing the video that is available from the CAT website,” the statement said quoting managing director of Prometric India Soumitra Roy.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/2-05-lakh-to-appear-in-Common-Admission-Test-2011/articleshow/10267231.cms

Get help in cracking the CAT

HT Education Correspondent, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, September 20, 2011

The biggest MBA entrance exam – Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 – is just a few days away. Aspirants are leaving no stone unturned in getting tips on  cracking the test – to be based on a new format.

HT Education, in association with MBAUniverse.com, is going to hold the fourth

edition of Mission MBA –a series for MBA aspirants from September 2011 to February 2012 in New Delhi. Mission MBA will include workshops featuring tips on how to crack CAT 2011, solving exclusive full-length mock tests on the new CAT pattern by CAT guru and author Arun Sharma.

Sharma studied at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and has been training CAT hopefuls since 1996. He holds the unique distinction of clearing CAT successfully 11 times in a row, with a score of 99.99 percentile in CAT 2008.

Those who want to participate can register and take mock tests on the following link http://www.mbauniverse.com/CAT2011/

Students can also seek guidance and clarifications from directors, deans and faculty members from the various IIMs and other top  B-schools on the new pattern of the test.
Besides this, aspirants can also get tips to succeed by previous years’ toppers, participate in quizzes and win prizes.

CAT 2011 will have only two sections and not three as earlier and test duration has been extended to 140 minutes. Candidates will have 70 minutes to answer 30 questions in each section.

The two sections would be: quantitative ability & data interpretation and verbal ability and logical reasoning.

The venue for the first workshop is Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Usha & Lakshmi Mittal Institute of Management (BULMIM), Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Delhi, on September 24, 2011 from 2pm to 4pm.

Students can also put forth their queries related to entrance tests for other B-schools, including Xavier Aptitude Test, Symbiosis National Aptitude Test, and how to qualify the group discussion and interview stage.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Get-help-in-cracking-the-CAT/Article1-747924.aspx

CAT 2011 & XAT 2012: B-schools to select from North India

| 23 Sept, 2011 0140 hrs IST

To provide a ready guide to the MBA aspirants, MBAUniverse.com is starting this special series.

The CAT 2011 registrations were recently extended by the IIMs. In another development on the entrance exam front the applications for the other big exam – XAT 2012 – has begun. CAT 2011 and XAT 2012 are the biggest exams for MBA admissions 2012. There are more than 158 B schools that have registered themselves with CAT 2011 for considering the scores. Not far behind is XAT 2012 with more than 101 B schools who have enlisted themselves for considering XAT scores.

So, which are these B schools who have enlisted themselves for CAT and XAT, as well as both? To provide a ready guide to the MBA aspirants, MBAUniverse.com is starting this special series in which you will be able to find out the B schools you can select for each of this big exam, as well as find out which exam to apply to, or both.

We begin this series with the North Zone B schools.

The table below presents to you the list of North Zone B schools which are going to consider CAT 2011, XAT 2011 scores. You can also locate the B schools which are going to accept scores of both the exams.

The B-schools have been arranged alphabetically according to the cities. Out of the total 85 B-schools mentioned in the list 71 B-schools will accept only CAT 2011 scores whereas 14 B-schools will accept exclusively XAT 2012 scores. 16 B-schools will accept both CAT 2011 and XAT 2012 scores.

In the upcoming articles, you will find the institutes of the West Zone, Central Zone, East Zone and South Zone.

Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more on the MBA Exams 2011-2012.

Source: http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/5008/

CAT 2011 registration date extended to Oct 4

Last updated on: September 20, 2011 14:27 IST

In view of a lot of new developments and announcements from various b-schools in the country, the deadline to register for CAT 2011 has been extended upto October 4. Meanwhile, CAT convenor Prof Janakiraman has urged aspirants to proof read their applications for errors before sending them. Read on.

The already longer-than-ever time window to register for the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2011 has been further extended from September 28 to October 4, 2011. The CAT vouchers too would be on sale for four more days at Axis Bank branches until Tuesday, October 1.

Everything else remains the same.

The extension has been made to accommodate candidates interested in applying to the Faculty of Management Studies and the Indian Institutes of Technology b-schools which dropped their own admission tests to join the CAT bandwagon, says the CAT testing agency Prometric.

“The news about FMS and IITs joining the CAT needs sufficient time to percolate down to the applicant community and we don’t want anyone to miss out because of a passed deadline. Hence we decided to extend the date, CAT 2011 Convenor Prof Janakiraman Moorthy told.

The original timeline for buying and registering CAT 2011 vouchers was August 17 to September 28, 2011.

Students have been filling up the CAT online registration forms with a lot of erroneous information, Prof Moorthy added.

“Last year about 200 applicants had filled only single digit marks under the school and college marks head. If somebody had scored 93.0, they had entered only 9.0. We had to call each of them individually to tally the mistake only to find that they had made a typing error while entering the marks,” he explained. Applicants were also entering misspelled names, he added.

Additionally in 2010, several applicants had missed out on IIM interview calls by forgetting to check the boxes against the IIM programs they wished to apply to.

“I advise all the CAT applicants to take paper print-outs of the completely filled forms and verify whether they have entered all the details correctly. I am stressing on a printout because one tends to overlook errors when checking on-screen,” he said. If any mistakes are discovered, applicants can make corrections in the online application until October 4.

One should not pass up an opportunity due to incorrectly entered data, he added.

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-career-cat-2011-registration-date-extended-to-october-4/20110920.htm

Uniform CAT to replace JMET for IITs and IISc

By Ritwik Mukherjee Aug 29 2011 , Kolkata

Tags: CAT, Companies

The joint management entrance test (JMET) previously used for admission by IITs and Indi­an Institute of Science (I­I­Sc) will now be discontinu­ed, making room for a un­iform combined admission test. IIMs, IITs and II­Sc ha­ve agreed to use CAT 2011 as part of the st­udent selection process of their MBA and M.Mgt prog­rammes beginning fr­om the academic year 2012-13.

The move was necessitated by the finding of a recent review, which said that the relatively young JMET is not too dissimilar to CAT, and that the effort to organise JMET each year seems enormous. On an average, nearly 40,000 candidates take the test each year.

Prof Janakiraman Moorthy, CAT 2011 convenor, said, “This is a major initiative that brings two premier higher education systems together. We anticipate that this will result in closer tie-ups and collaborative research work that will provide both sets of institutions a competitive edge in the long run.”

Professor LS Ganesh, former HOD, management department, IIT Madras sa­id, “The decision to use CAT for admission into the IITs and IISc will minimise the test preparation and financial burden on candidates.”

In an official communiqué, Prometric, a leading provider of market-leading test development and test delivery solutions which is IIMs’ partner in developing and delivering CAT 2011, said CAT 2011 will be held over a 20-day window from October 22 to November 18 across 36 cities.

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/companies/uniform-cat-replace-jmet-iits-and-iisc-652

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