Common Admission Test (CAT)

Registrations: First week of August

Overview Dates Application Fee Registration Exam Pattern Cut Off Eligibility Exam Test Center FAQs

CAT Overview

What is CAT Exam?

CAT (Common Admission Test) which is organized by all the IIMs on rotational basis. It is computer-based MBA entrance examination for getting admission in 20 IIMs and over 1,200 top B-Schools in the India for MBA and PGDM programms and also for the Post Graduate Programms (PGP).

Every year IIMs select a Convener for overseeing all aspects of the exam. Convener is the one who is responsible and see all the possibilities for managing everything.

This year IIM has appointed Prof. M P Ram Mohan as a Convener for CAT examination, he was a faculty for Business Policy and Chairperson Admissions at IIMA (IIM Ahmedabad).

The CAT examination is expected to be organized soon by the July last week and the registration procedure may begin in the 1st week of August.

CAT Exam Highlights

Features	Details
Exam Name	CAT (Common Admission Test)
Conducting Body	IIM
Exam Level	National Level Exams
Exam schedule	Last week of November
Course Offered	MBA/PGDM
Exam Helpdesk No.	1-800-209-0830 (Toll Free)
Exam Website	https://iimcat.ac.in

CAT Eligibility Criteria

Candidates must have a Graduation degree with minimum 50% aggregate (45% aggregate for SC, ST and PWD category candidates) or equivalent from any recognized university or institute.
You must have done a professional degree in CA/ CS/ ICWA with the required percentage.
Candidates who are in the final year of their graduation are also eligible to apply for CAT exam

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CAT Important Dates

Events	Dates
Release of CAT Notification	July
Starting of Online Registration	1st week of August
Last date to fill the application form	3rd week of September
Correction window	Last week of September
Release of Admit card	Last week of October
Mock Test	4th week of October
CAT Exam	November
Release of Answer Key	1st week of December
Last date to submit objection	2nd week of December
Revised Answer Key	Last week of December
Announcement of Results	1st week of January

CAT Registration

You can register easily for the CAT exam through given below steps:-

Firstly go to the official website – https://iimcat.ac.in/
Now register yourself by entering your details such as name, date of birth, email ID and mobile number
Now ask for the OTP for successful registration
An OTP will be sent on your registered phone number or mail ID
Now after the successful registration process, login by entering the OTP in the given field
Now enter all the required details in the registration form
Upload scanned documents in the required place
After this select the test centers and preferred IIM campus for Writing Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)
Now pay the registration fees for CAT exam

CAT Application Fee:

CAT Application Fee

General and OBC Category Candidates – 2,200/-
SC, ST and PWD Category Candidates – 1,100/-

How to pay CAT Exam Fee?

CAT exam fee can be paid through online mode – debit/credit card or net banking.

CAT Exam Pattern

CAT Examination is divided into three sections namely VARC (Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension), QA (Quantitative Aptitude) and DILR (Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning) will come to solve Non-MCQ and MCQ type questions.

Know distribution details of CAT exam Sections and questions below:-

Sections	VARC, QA and DILR
Duration of exam	Total 120 minutes (40 minutes per section)
Total number of questions	76 Questions
Section-wise number of questions	VARC – 26 Questions DILR – 24 Questions QA – 26 Questions
Total marks	228 Marks
Language of question paper	English Language
Type of questions	Non-MCQs and MCQs
Marking Scheme	You will get +3 marks for every correct answer 1/3 (-1) marks will deducted for every wrong answer in MCQs There is no negative marking for every wrong non-MCQ answer

CAT 2020 Cut Off for IIM Admission

IIM	CAT cut off 2020
IIM Trichy	95
IIM Jammu	95
IIM Sirmaur	95
IIM Ranchi	95
IIM Raipur	95
IIM Bodhgaya	95
IIM Udaipur	90
IIM Amritsar	90
IIM Kashipur	90
IIM Sambalpur	90
IIM Nagpur	90
IIM Lucknow	90
IIM Indore	90
IIM Rohtak	90
IIM Visakhapatnam	90
IIM Kozhikode	85
IIM Calcutta	85
IIM Ahmedabad	80
IIM Bangalore	80
IIM Shillong	75

CAT Test Centres and Cities

CAT examination was conducted at numerous exam centers located in 156 cities in India. You have to choose at least six exam center preferences during the registration:-

Mumbai	Hamirpur
Nashik	Jammu
Satara	Bokaro
Palghar	Dhanbad
Ulhasnagar	Hazaribagh
Shillong	Jamshedpur
Aizawl	Ranchi
Kohima	Belagavi (Belgaum)
Balasore	Bengaluru
Cuttack	Hubballi(Hubli)
Sambalpur	Mysuru(Mysore)
Berhampur	Kalaburagi(Gulbarga)
Dhenkanal	Shivamogga(Shimoga)
Bhubaneswar	Dharwad
Rourkela	Mangaluru(Mangalore)
Puducherry	Udupi
Pathankot	Kannur
Ludhiana	Ernakulam
Amritsar	Kollam
Bhatinda	Kottayam
Patiala	Kozhikode
Jalandhar	Thrissur
Sangrur	Trivandrum
Ajmer	Bhopal
Jaipur	Jabalpur
Sikar	Ujjain
Alwar	Gwalior
Jodhpur	Sagar
Udaipur	Indore
Bikaner	Satna
Kota	Bhopal
Madurai	Jabalpur
Chennai	Ujjain
Salem	Gwalior
Trichy	Sagar
Coimbatore	Indore
Vellore	Satna
Tirunelveli	Amravati
Hyderabad	Jalgaon
Karimnagar	Nagpur
Warangal	Pune
Allahabad	Solapur
Bareilly	Navi Mumbai
Kanpur	Ahmednagar
Muzaffarnagar	Kolhapur
Agra	Nanded
Gorakhpur	Raigad
Lucknow	Thane
Varanasi	Vasai
Aligarh	Aurangabad
Dehradun	Moradabad
Asansol	Roorkee
Burdwan	Bankura
Kalyani	Hooghly
Siliguri	Aurangabad-Bihar
Port Blair	Darbhanga
Guntur	Arrah
Nellore	Muzaffarpur
Vijayawada	Bhagalpur
Kakinada	Patna
Rajahmundry	Mohali
Visakhapatnam	Chandigarh
Kurnool	Bhilai Nagar
Tirupathi	Bilaspur
Vizianagaram	Raipur
Itanagar	Delhi
Dibrugarh	Faridabad
Silchar	Gurugram
Guwahati	Ghaziabad
Tezpur	New Delhi
Jorhat	Greater Noida
Ambala	Noida
Hisar	Meerut
Karnal	Panaji
Kurushetra	Ahmedabad
Panipat	Mehsana
Rohtak	Vadodara
Shimla	Anand
Jhansi	Rajkot
Haldwani	Gandhinagar
Durgapur	Surat
Kolkata