CAT 2020 Exam Registration

CAT Exam is likely to be held in the month of November. CAT Exam is conducted by one of the IIMs to get admission for Post Graduate Programmes in Management in 20 IIMs and other top 100 B School of the country. Common admission test is one of the prestigious exams for MBA Aspirants. Notification for the same will be out in July 2020 and the registration for the same will begin in 1^st week of August and end in 2^nd week of September 2020.

The Registration for CAT 2020 is an online process and you need to apply online. There will be no offline registration facility. During the registration process you need to fill up your Personal Details, Contact Details, Academic Details, Work Experience, Test centre selection, IIMs which you wish to apply, Photograph upload, scanned signature and category certificates. Please ensure to fill the form carefully as you will not be able to rectify the details in case you fill them incorrectly. You will have to re-register in case of wrong details. After registration you will get a unique registration id with which you will be able to login to the official website. Approximately 2.4 Lac plus aspirants appeared for CAT Exam last year.

Last year the CAT Registration fee was INR 1900 for General Category and INR 950 for reserved category i.e. SC/ST/PwD. This may vary for CAT 2020.

An official mock test for preparation will also be published on CAT website for practise so that you can understand the exam pattern and the difficulty level of the exam.

On the day of your exam, you will have to carry your Admit card which is an important document and will have to be downloaded from the official website of CAT. You will have to login using your credentials and review all the details mentioned on your admit card. It will be issued by the IIMS Conducting body. You will have to carry the soft copy at the day of the exam. No hard copy will be sent to the candidate of the admit card.

As soon as you register for CAT 2020 exam, you will get a target so as to appear for your exam in November 2020. You will have to buck up and start your preparation in full swing. You need to work on your basics and go on to practise with different kind of questions. You will have to practise for all the sections equally – Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Ability Reading Comprehension and Data Interpretation Logical Reasoning.

We wish you all the best for your CAT 2020 journey.

Quantitative Ability for CAT 2017

Quantitative ability is the section which is common to all MBA entrance examinations but is one of the very crucial section in CAT.

Quantitative Ability in CAT 2017 will also not be an exception and CAT aspirants are likely to face tougher questions this year hence, it is important to understand that what is Quantitative Ability and why you are being tested for this section?

Quantitative Ability as the name mentions is a section where you would be tested for your analytical behaviour and your mind at Quant. You would be getting questions from areas of Arithmetic which may comprise of questions on percentages, numbers, algebra, trigonometry, time & speed and distance.

While being tested in Quantitative Ability, you need to understand that in any business numbers are very important and primary data being collected in any business is very crucial for launching a product or for the projection of the sales hence, it is the Quantitative analysis on which brand manager is dependent upon and it is his Quantitative skills which directs him to control the market and ensures the brand growth. Because of this reason you are being tested in Quantitative Ability so to know your aptitude and Quantitative skills, afterall you would be selected as a future budding manager.

The crucial question for CAT aspirant is how to prepare and ace Quantitative Ability? Experts have suggested that for preparing Quantitative Ability, you need to practice and clarify your fundamentals from NCERT books and take sample questions from High School standard as that would give you immense confidence to deal with questions in Quantitative Ability.

34 questions in Quantitative Ability section of CAT 2017 would be a dreadful section as being an opening section of CAT 2017 this may either boost your confidence or let you down at the beginning of CAT 2017 hence, it is very crucial that you take this section with a piece of mind and since this section is calculation centric hence, you remain confident and attempt those questions only where you are fully confident on the answers.

Quantitative Ability in CAT 2017 will decide your overall percentile so start preparation and achieve Mission CAT 2017 !

Fear Psychosis of Exam

Naturally our perception remains top of mind and we tend to believe that. Childhood perception is that if I will not fare well in exams that will expose me and I will face embarrassment before parents, teachers and friends. 

Later it takes times to understand that we can take exams like initiative to excel & show world the worth of maturity and intelligence. 

Nevertheless competitive MBA entrance exams are definitely to grab berth of opportunity to shift oneself to gain professional outlook. 

With the strong will power supplemented with focused preparation even the most sought after CAT exam can be cracked. 

Factual fact is that in absence of any prescribed syllabus for any of MBA entrance exam; it becomes more of a mind game. 

CAT 2014 will be conducted in middle of October this year and serious aspirants like you have already on preparation mode.

QA Syllabus in CAT 2013

CAT aspirants who are taking exam from 16^th October to 11^th November   must note that there is no fix syllabus for QA but the following sections are considered as the most relevant by the experts in this section who followed the pattern over the years.

NUMBER SYSTEM: Number Base System, HCF / LCM,

SET THEORY

ALGEBRA:    Simple Equations,   Quadratic Equations, Inequalities and Modulus, Special Equations, Functions and Graphs, Maxima and Minima, Progressions, Logarithms, Indices and Surds

PERCENTAGES

PROFIT AND LOSS AND PARTNERSHIPS

SIMPLE INTEREST AND COMPOUND INTEREST

AVERAGE, MIXTURES AND ALLIGATIONS

RATIO, PROPORTION AND VARIATION

GEOMETRY

MENSURATION

TIME AND DISTANCE

TIME AND WORK

PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS

PROBABILITY

COORDINATE GEOMETRY

TRIGONOMETRY

STATISTICS

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Make Vocabulary strong for CAT 2013

For CAT, a good vocabulary is very essential, although CAT does not test candidates on their knowledge of difficult words directly. This is because the passages and answer options given in the Reading Comprehension section may have some difficult words. Not knowing their meaning could decrease the candidate’s ability to understand the passage. 

Questions based on testing one's vocabulary - the plain "synonym - antonym" questions used to appear in CAT in the early 2000's; these have become very rare over the past 10 years. 

Although a good vocabulary definitely helps in handling CAT, purely vocab-based questions are almost non-existent these days. Quite a few words have an interesting origin, and there is a story, legend or myth associated with them. A number of words come to us from Roman or Greek mythology.

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CAT Background and Sections

The difference between the paper and pencil test and the online test is that now the tests are conducted online otherwise, almost everything remains the same. Candidates are provided with sheets for rough calculations. 

The right answer is clicked using the mouse. Candidates can also scroll the entire paper and start from wherever they want.

Likewise they can also change their answers. But all these has to be completed within stipulated time as there will be an on-screen countdown timer for each section. Once the time ends for the first section, candidates will move on to the second without having the option of being able to come back.
Thus, time management will have an inevitable part to play in CAT 2013.

There will be only 2 Sections in CAT 2013

• Quantitative ability and Data interpretation (QA & DI)
• Verbal ability and Logical reasoning (VA & LR) 

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Fear is good for MBA aspirants

MBA aspirants who are likely to take forthcoming entrance exams like CAT / XAT / IIFT / NMAT etc. must be curious on future happenings. 

It is said that somewhat fear is good to be able to succeed. This exam fear propels you to prepare for exam holistically.

Preparation execution method might differ from one and other but will power and creating mission within oneself has to be similar.

As long as fear is prevailing to excel better in exam might sound good but if it is turning to a psychosis then it must be stopped with the support of getting more focused. 

Fear of getting on top of merit list is a healthy sign for focused MBA aspirant like you.

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