The Common Admission Test (CAT) is conducted by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and is the first step in the process of seeking admission to the IIMs. The CAT is considered as one of the most important national standard for entrance to management institutes. Apart from the Indian Institutes of Management over 40 other Management Institutes use the CAT for short listing candidates.

Undoubtedly, the mother of all examinations, the CAT has the widest coverage in Quantitative, Verbal and Reasoning areas of testing.

The CAT exam is of 2 hours and generally had four sections till 1998. The format of the CAT paper changed in1999. It had only 3 sections with equal number of questions in each section. There is negative marking for wrong answers. Proficiency in all the sections is essential for getting a call from any of the IIMs.

The CAT is now conducted on the second last Sunday of November and is generally the first management entrance examination of the examinations that last upto June the next year.

Non-IIM Institutes accepting CAT Scores:

Alliance Business Academy
19th Cross, 7th Main,
BTM 2nd Stage, N. S. Palya,
Bangalore - 560 076.
E-mail: alliance@bgl.vsnl.net.in
Website: www.alliancebschool.org

Amrita Institute of Management
Ettimadai,
Coimbatore - 641 105
Tamil Nadu.
E-mail: aim@amrita.edu
Website: www.amrita.edu/aim/

Aravali Institute of Management
Academic Complex, Marwar Bhawan
Polo No 2, Paota
Jodhpur - 342006
Website: www.aravali.org

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