1.

Quantitative – This is divided into various Mathematics questions like :

Arithmetic – ratios & proportions, percentages, profit & loss, averages, distance & time, speed- distance, HCF,
LCM, simple interests etc
Algebra – Quadratic equations, functions, Menstruations etc.
Geometry – Triangles, circles, co-ordinate geometry etc.
Other topics of maths like set theory, permutation & combination, binomial equation, complex number etc.
2. Data Interpretation – it is based on graphs & tables. There are different types of graphs like line graph, pie
chart, bar graphs etc. You must have a firm knowledge of all this.
3. Reasoning – Like critical reasoning, visual reasoning, assertion & reasons, statements & assumptions,
identifying strong arguments, statements & conclusions, cause & effect etc. You should be able to solve the
problem easily. So you should have a good knowledge of all this so that question is solved in less time as time
matters a lot in CAT exam.
4. English – There are various topics like passage comprehension, verbal reasoning, antonyms, sentence
completion, sentence correction, one word substitution, punctuation, different usage of same word etc.
CAT 2010 – 2011 Application Procedure : The interested candidates have to apply Online through the official
website. You  have to first get the application voucher by paying the application fee in the indicated bank branch. The
challan no. is used while filling the form online.
CAT 2010 – 2011 Important Dates : 
 Application fee submission dates – from End of August to End of September
 Tentative date of examination – end of September
CAT 2010 – 2011 Eligibility Criteria : The candidate must have done graduation in any stream from a recognized
university with at least 50% aggregate marks. Those who giving final year examination in the year of CAT can also
apply for this.
CAT 2010 – 2011 Exam Pattern : This is a computerized test where  the student has to give the exam on computer
at the designated centers. The test will take place for 10 consecutive dates. These dates are different for different
students and each day, there will be different sets of questions. 
The test is of 2 hrs duration. Each correct answer will be awarded 1 or 2 marks & for each wrong answer, 1/3rd mark
will be deducted. The questions are on Verbal ability, Data interpretation & reasoning and Quantitative ability.
1.  institute of Management & Technology, Noida
2. Birla Institute of Management & Technology, Noida
3. Dept of Business Management, Ludhiana
4. EMPI Institute of Advertisement & Communication Management, Delhi
5. Faculty of Management Studies, Varanasi
6. Graduate Scholl of Business & Administration, Noida
7. Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi
8. IILM Graduate School of Management, Greater Noida
9. Inst. of Marketing & Management, New Delhi
10. Inst. of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
11. International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi
12. Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Delhi
13. LBS Inst. of Mgmt. Technology, New  Delhi
14. Mgmt Development Institute, Gurgaon
15. NIILM Centre of Management Studies, Delhi
16. Pearl School of Business, Gurgaon
17. Shri Ramswaroop Memorial College of Engineering & Management, Lucknow
18. Asia Pacific Inst. of Mgmt, Delhi
19. Cosmic Business School, Delhi
20. Dept. of Business Admin., University of Lucknow
21. EMPI Business School, Delhi
22. Fore School of Mgmt., New Delhi
23. Indian Inst. of Forest Mgmt., Bhopal
24. INMANTEC, Ghaziabad
25. IME, Ghaziabad
26. Inst. of Mgmt. Sciences, Lucknow
27. IISE, Lucknow
28. Invertis Institute of Management Studies, Bareilly
29. Jaipuria Inst. of Mgmt., Lucknow
30. LBSIMT, Bareilly
31. New Delhi Inst. of Mgmt., New Delhi
32. NPTI, Faridabad
33. School of Management Sciences, Varanasi
34. University Business School, Chandigarh
SOUTH
1. Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore
2. Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tirchirappali
3. Institute of Business Mgmt. Research, Bangalore
4. Inst. of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad
5. Kirloskar Institute of Advances Management Studies, Harihar
6. School of Management Studies, Hyderabad
7. SSN Institute of Management & Computer Applications, Kalavakkam
8. Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai
9. Amrita Institute, Coimbatore
10. Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry University
11. IFMR, Chennai
12. INTECH Institute of Business Management, Bangalore
13. School of Communication & Management Studies, Cochin
14. SDM Inst. of Mgmt Development, Mysore
15. T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal
16. VIT Business School, Vellore
WEST
1. AICAR Business School, Raigad
2. Aravali Institute of Management, Jodhpur
3. Institute of Agri Business Mgmt., Bikaner
4. Institute of Management Nirma University of Science & Technology, Ahmadabad
5. Kohinoor Business School & Centre for Management Research, Pune
6. Mudra Institute of Communication Ahmadabad
7. National Insurance Academy School of Management, Pune
8. Suryadatta Group of Institutes, Pune
9. Balaji Institute of International Business, Pune
10. Inst. of Mgmt. Technology, Nagpur
11. IMDR, Pune
12. ITM Business School, Navi Mumbai
13. K J Somaiya School of Mgmt., Mumbai
14. National Institute of Bank Management, Pune
15. S.P. Jain Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
16. Prin. L.N. Welingakar Institute of Mgmt. Development & Res., Mumbai
EAST

1. Army Institute of Mgmt., Kolkata

2. Calcutta Business School, Kolkata
3. Department of Management Studies Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
4. Faculty of Management Studies, Varanasi
5. Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
6. IISWBM, Kolkata
7. Motilala Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
8. ASBM, Bhubaneshwar
9. Department of Commerce, Kolkata
10. Dept. of Business Mgmt., Kolkata
11. Globsyn Business School, Kolkata
12. Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
13. Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata

CAT Syllabus and Test Pattern

The CAT exam pattern has been changed, now cat exam is a online test, but the syllabus for CAT  is same as
syllabus for previous CAT pattern.

There is no prescribed syllabus for CAT. It tests basically your managerial skills, team spirit, intelligentsia. Yet
to help we give you some sketches of the syllabus

The CAT Test includes following sections. 

1. Quantitative Ability 
2. Data Interpretation
3. Data Sufficiency
4. Reading Comprehension
5. Logical Reasoning
6. Verbal Ability

Quantitative Ability: The purpose of quantitative ability section is for testing the candidates, their ability to
solve problem. The quantitative section contains multiple choice questions based on mathematics. Topics
include in this section are given below.
 
Quantitative / Mathematical Skills:

Geometry – Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. 

Ratios and Proportion- Arithmetic and fractional display problems on ratio and proportion. 
Percentages.
Equations and Inequalities – Quadratic and linear equations.
Algebra – Questions based on algebraic expressions. 
Profit & Loss – Arithmetical Problem Solving based on cost price, discounts, selling price, percentage profit,
percentage loss.
Averages – problems like finding number of girls in a class wherein the average and other relevant data are
given etc.
Percentages – Conventional questions on percentages.
Partnerships.
Time-Speed-Distance – Leave you with a typical time-speed-distance questin: Two trains A and B start from
two stations towards each other, speeds given, one of them have better speed than the other, also time they start
are given, then calculate when or at what distance they meet.
Work and time – Questions like : A and B can do a work in ten days, A quits halfway, then in how many days
can B do the same work?
Numbers – Complex Numbers, Fractions etc.
Numbers – Complex Numbers, Fractions etc.
Progressions – Arithmetic Progression, Geometric Progression, Harmonic Progression, Arithmetico-geometric
Progression, Arithmetic/geometric/harmonic mean.
Mensuration and measurements.
Alligation & Mixtures.
Pipes and Cisterns.
Simple Interest & Compound Interest.
Set theory and Venn Diagrams.
Instalments.
Clocks.
Probability.
Permutations & Combinations. 
Vectors. 
Expansions – Binomial Expansion.
Co-ordinate geometry.
Logarithm.
Calculus – Maxima & Minima. 

Data Interpretation Section: Data are given in form of tables, charts, graphs. In this section it is tested that how
candidates can interpret data. 

Data Sufficiency Section: A statement is given with other statement, the candidates have to answer whether the
given statement is enough to solve the problem or not. 

Logical Reasoning: This section contains puzzles and logical questions. 

Reading Comprehension and verbal ability section: It tests your knowledge in English grammar and English
language.
 Includes: 

Reasoning: Critical reasoning, Assumption premise conclusion, visual reasoning, assertion and reasons,
identifying valid inferences, statements and assumptions, identifying strong arguments and weak arguments,
cause and effects, statements and conclusion, identifying true and false statement, linear arrangements, matrix
arrangements, family tree problem, matrix arrangements, symbol based problems, sequencing, coding and
decoding problem, number series. 

English : comprehension of passage, syllogism, verbal reasoning, contextual, analogies, antonyms, fill in the
blanks, jumbled paragraphs, foreign language words used in English, sentence correction and completion, odd
man out, idioms, one word substitution, same word’s different usage, errors in word choice, incorrect words,
phrasal, proverb, punctuation etc.

ommon Admission Test (CAT) is a countrywide test conducted for the admission to the IIMs (Indian
Institutes of Management), the optimum station for the desiring business managers searching a place in
the corporate world. There are many other good business schools (an almost exhaustive list of which
you can see in the top colleges under CAT list of our website. 

Let us know more about the Indian Institutes of Management (the IIMs) now. There are seven IIMs
across the country in different cities – Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore and
Shillong. 

CAT is the maiden stage of selection in the IIMs and most other premiere institutes of management in
India. Generally CAT comprises of questions that test the level of your quantitative efficiency,
vocabulary, general awareness, reasoning, analyzing data. It would not be incorrect to say that a CAT
paper is designed in such a way that an aspirant fairs only if (s)he has the managerial skills imbibed or
inherited! In addition to the performance in the CAT, there are many management institutes who
believe that fairing relatively good in the written test of a specified duration of two – three hours is not
sufficient judge a student’s real credentials. So a good weightage is given to the past academic record,
prior working experience if any and also any relevant curricular or extra-curricular activities. 

Every year the most sought after examination that is the Common Admission Test comes up with a
surprise, say, for example, few years back there had been a time when there were no trend of negative
marking and the examinees were free to attempt as many as all questions – which could be guesses too!
But because of the cut-throat competition in the corporate world, the Common Admission Test is, now
an orthodox and staunch follower of negative marking, so beware and attempt the questions answers to
which you are dead sure! 

As have already been said earlier about the surprises, 2009 is not an exception. On May 1, 2009, it was
announced that 2009 onwards, CAT will be a Computer Based Online Test, Parametric ETS being the
partner in conducting the test. Just like many other examinations like GMAT, GRE, IELTS, CAT also will be
held sitting on the computer at the assigned centre. CAT is held on the third Sunday of every November
each year. On November 27, 2009 more than 2 lacs students are expected to take the test, thereby
making it the world's most competitive and one of the most difficult examinations. Simply working hard,
burning yourself on fire will not get you to success in CAT any further now, you have to work smarter
now rather than work harder. Here at, you can practice several CAT patterned questions sitting home at
your computers. So there is no time for a dual thought, start being computer savvy so pressing the keys,
scrolling the mouse does not remain a hitch rather it has to be like any other habit for you.

For the Indian Institutes of Management and other equivalently optimum business schools,
or better say, for the CAT as a whole, the minimum academic eligibility criterion for
admission to the post graduate programmes in business management is at least a three-
year Bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline with at least 50% (45% in case of
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe / Physically disabled) from a recognized university. The
list of recognized universities, however, will be mentioned thoroughly in the CAT Application
brochure.

Students appearing for the final year of the qualification examination and those who have
completed degree requirement but are awaiting their respective results can also apply. Such
students, having scored some hopeful percentile and after qualified in the group discussion
and personal interview of their choicest business schools are provided admission subject to
the condition that they pass the qualifying examination (the Bachelor’s degree from a
recognized institute/university) with qualifying marks mentioned above. To your kind
knowledge, the students can, in no case, round off their marks to qualify for the CAT. The
CAT remains stubborn, so much so that if one scores 49.9%, (s)he cannot round it off by
0.1 % to make it 50%! Nevertheless, there is no age limit so far in the CAT. You can take
the CAT as many numbers of times as you can. In case there are gap years between taking
the CAT and any last degree you have attained, it is always recommended that you carry all
those details in written, including proofs of employment if any, alon with you at the time of
interview. 

CAT Eligibility Criteria: 

1. General Candidates: Atleast 50% or equivalent CGPA in graduation.

2. SC/ST Candidates: Atleast 45% or equivalent CGPA in graduation.

3. Final year students completing their graduation in year 2010.

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CAT exam, CAT exam eligibility

CAT 2010 Important Date, CAT 2010 Form Distribution and Submission Date, CAT 2010 Exam Date

CAT 2010 entrance exam final date is not disclosed yet. But CAT schedule and important dates are
given below according to CAT 2009 schedule. Every year CAT exam is held in november. 10 days
window or slot is opened for conducting online test for CAT exam. 
 CAT Important Dates are given below: 

CAT 2010 Application Form Distribution, 30 August - 27 Sept

Last Date of Submission of Application Form: 27 September

Schedule of CAT Online Test (10 day window and slot): 27 Oct - 24 Nov, 2010

CAT 2010 Result: January 12, 2011

CAT Application form fee

Fee for CAT 2010 application form is RS 1400 for General/Open Category and RS 700 for SC/ST
category.

CAT Test Paper Pattern and Format

There is no such conventional and defined test pattern for CAT. The CAT test can be in
various combinations like different sections both time-bound and unbound, depending upon
the degree of surprise they want to put you through! But the questions, absolutely, are
based on the areas testing your problem solving skills, data interpretation, reading
and analyzing comprehensionand verbal ability. Purposeful practice and extensive
preparation is all that is required to score handsome in the CAT. To add, you never know
whether you have that managerial skills in you, but the test is designed in a fashion so as to
broadly check through if you have that in you. Again there is no such score, percentage or
marks provided in your score-card. Your performance in CAT is relative to how your fellow-
examinees fair. Here comes a new term “Percentile” to our vocabulary as soon as we aspire
to be an MBA and sit for various tests for this. Percentile refers to your relative performance
as compared to the total number of students who took the same test with you, across the
country. For example, a 99 percentile would mean that the student is in the top 1 percent of
the crowd who took the CAT. 

Has already been said that the CAT comes up with surprises every year to maintain its
competitive flavor. This year the CAT will be held online, that is, you sit on the computer at
the assigned test centre and write the answers on the system itself within a time bound.
Now in our country there are still many who do not know how to operate the computers –
this time CAT is going to be a big challenge for them all. So along with taking lessons of the
syllabus or the content it demands, you have to be a computer savvy! Or at least you ought
to get familiar with handling the mouse, pressing the keys so you can handle the online CAT
2009 without any hitch. But this is not the prerequisite for the CAT. A deserving student can
still crack it excellently, because such students see the stars out of the window and not the
bars of the window! 

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Exam pattern,
CAT Test Paper Pattern and Format
There is no such conventional and defined test pattern for CAT. The CAT test can be in
various combinations like different sections both time-bound and unbound, depending upon
the degree of surprise they want to put you through! But the questions, absolutely, are
based on the areas testing your problem solving skills, data interpretation, reading
and analyzing comprehensionand verbal ability. Purposeful practice and extensive
preparation is all that is required to score handsome in the CAT. To add, you never know
whether you have that managerial skills in you, but the test is designed in a fashion so as to
broadly check through if you have that in you. Again there is no such score, percentage or
marks provided in your score-card. Your performance in CAT is relative to how your fellow-
examinees fair. Here comes a new term “Percentile” to our vocabulary as soon as we aspire
to be an MBA and sit for various tests for this. Percentile refers to your relative performance
as compared to the total number of students who took the same test with you, across the
country. For example, a 99 percentile would mean that the student is in the top 1 percent of
the crowd who took the CAT. 

Has already been said that the CAT comes up with surprises every year to maintain its
competitive flavor. This year the CAT will be held online, that is, you sit on the computer at
the assigned test centre and write the answers on the system itself within a time bound.
Now in our country there are still many who do not know how to operate the computers –
this time CAT is going to be a big challenge for them all. So along with taking lessons of the
syllabus or the content it demands, you have to be a computer savvy! Or at least you ought
to get familiar with handling the mouse, pressing the keys so you can handle the online CAT
2009 without any hitch. But this is not the prerequisite for the CAT. A deserving student can
still crack it excellently, because such students see the stars out of the window and not the
bars of the window! 

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Exam pattern,

CAT Test Centres are divided under the six IIMs areas. The most of CAT test centres are
covered in their IIM zones. We provide the list of CAT test centres covered by different IIM
zone.

Under the allotment process of CAT test centres to the applicants, it is strickly divided in
favour of applicants.    

CAT Test Centres under IIM Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad
Jaipur
Mumbai
Nagpur

CAT Test Centres under IIM Bangalore

Bangalore 
Hyderabad
Pune

CAT Test Centres under IIM Calcutta

Bhubaneswar
Chandigarh
Guwahati Jamshedpur
Kolkata
Patna
Varanasi

CAT Test Centres under IIM Indore

Bhopal
Gurgaon
Indore
Noida

CAT Test Centres under IIM Kozhikode

Chennai
Coimbatore
Kozhikode

CAT Test Centres under IIM Lucknow

Delhi
Lucknow

CAT Past Year Paper with Solutions

CAT Past year Paper with Solutions

In the present world of tough competition you must learn not only how to accumulate exam specific
information, but also learn and master how to be mentally prepared to tackle a test, and use the knowledge
 gained through toils to your maximum advantage. 

CAT papers are very useful to students preparing for CAT exam for estimating their preparation. Without
solving CAT past year papers, your preparation is incomplete. it gives you an idea how to score in CAT exam.
Every year CAT paper has unique approach for problem solutions and it is one of the toughest exams in India. 

By solving these CAT past year papers in true spirit, you will be able to measure your preparedness for the CAT
real test and would be also able to identify your weakness and take the corrective measures to rectify the
lacunae before it is too late. These previous year solved papers will make you learn the exact pattern of the
questions asked in CAT entrance test, know how to manage your time effectively in the examination hall and
help you develop right strategies with positive mental framework.

Kiitcat.com provides past year papers for CAT exams. There is need to prepare CAT exam smartly. The previous
year papers for CAT is best to practice your preparation for CAT final exam and find out the pattern for CAT
exam. 

It is best to solve the CAT papers in timely manner. Speed and accuracy both has equal importance for cracking
CAT papers. So do practice these papers seriousely.

CAT 2009 Paper with solutions 

CAT 2008 Paper with Solutions

CAT 2007 Paper with solutions 

CAT 2006 Paper with solutions 

CAT 2005 Paper with solutions

 

CAT (Common Admission Test) is one of the most prestigious tests conducted on a vast scale in India
each year to enroll thousands of students to their choicest business schools. We, herein, provide you an
exhaustive check-out list for the best ranked B-schools that use the CAT score for admission:

* Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

* Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
* Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata
* Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
* Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
* Indian Institute of Management, Indore
* Indian Institute of Management, Shillong
* Institute of Management and Technology, Ghaziabad
* Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
* Indian Institute of Finance, New Delhi
* Lal Bahadur Shashtri Institute of Management, New Delhi
* K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai
* S. P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai
* Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai
* FORE School of Management, New Delhi
* Alliance Business Academy, Bangalore
* Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi
* Jamna Lal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,Mumbai
* Narsee Monji Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
* International Management Institute, New Delhi
* Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy
* Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad
* T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal

fter having received a decent percentile, you can apply to various colleges (though IIMs will
themselves show you whether you are selected or not selected and this will be displayed on
their individual websites as soon as you enter your CAT registration number). The colleges
decide a cut-off percentile and send interview invitation letter to you in their respective
campuses on specified future dates. The written test CAT is followed an exhaustive round of
applying to colleges and then reaching each where for the personal interview and the group
discussion. This is the selection procedure that CAT follows; now we tell you the selection
procedure that you should follow in order to get into a good business school. For your quick
browsing and better understanding we tabulate the whole CAT selection procedure below: 

The table below gives you a step-by-step idea of how to make your own selection
procedure. It would help if you follow the step-by-step development in preparing yourself
for the CAT. 

   

Serial Things to do :
No.

1. Be focused and keep preparing smartly, then buy the CAT form (date of availability of the form
will be notified in leading newspapers) from prescribed counters either by cash or downloading
them and then demand draft.

2. Submit duly filled in form at the correct address (try to not submit the forms at the last date to
avoid rush, tensions or any unforeseen hitches.)

3. Make sure you receive the admit card in time, if not so then contact the administration for issuing
a duplicate one.
 4. Sit for the CAT (confident, concentrated, competent)

5. Check the results on the dates mentioned.

6. Make a list of business schools (IIMs, non IIMs) and apply separately to each one them.

7. Appear well-prepared for the post CAT interview and group discussion to the colleges you have
been called from.

8. After being shortlisted to one or more business schools, it id now your turn to short-list business
schools of your choice in hierarchy of preference and finally get admitted to the best of lot.