CAT is undoubtedly the most popular test for aspirants of MBA / PGDM.

Updated as on Sep 16, 2020 . CAT 2020 application form submission deadline is extended till Wednesday, Sep 23, 2020. The CAT Exam 2020 shall be conducted by IIM Indore, official notification will be released around last week of July 2020. The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) will conduct a computer- based Common Admission Test 2020 (CAT 2020) on November 29, 2020 in two sessions. Detailed information on CAT 2020 may be obtained from the CAT website. Application is open now.

 

CAT exam is conducted for admission to post graduate management programmes offered at 20 IIMs and other top B Schools of the country. The 20 IIMs include the seven flagship IIMs and 13 newer IIMs. Other than IIMs, FMS Delhi University, JBIMS, UBS Chandigarh, all IIT - Business Schools, DMS NIT, private management institutes like SPJIMR, MDI Gurgaon, NITIE, XIMB, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI Delhi, FORE School, Tapmi, GIM Goa, IRMA, and 100 others accept CAT Score.

 

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IIM Indore is the coordinating IIM for CAT 2020. Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore) has released application form and MoU for non-IIM institutes who want to use CAT 2020 score. In order to obtain Non-IIM CAT 2020 membership for use of CAT 2020 scores, the following steps are required to be completed before July 15, 2020. READ

 

Professor Harshal Lowalekar, Faculty Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques, is the convener for the Common Admission Test (CAT 2020). 

 

Know the CAT convenor - Professor (Dr.) Harshal Lowalekar is a Mechanical engineer from Ujjain Engineering College & has been a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at W.P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA and completed his Fellow Programme in Management (Production and Quantitative Methods) from IIM A. Presently he is a Professor of Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques at IIM Indore.

 

CAT Exam Exam Time Changed: The revised duration of the test will be 120 minutes. There will be three sections: Section I: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension; Section II: Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning and Section III: Quantitative Ability. Candidates will be allotted exactly 40 minutes for answering questions in each section and they will not be allowed to switch from one section to another while answering questions in a section. Tutorials to understand the format of the test will be available on the CAT website from October 2020.

 

Check: IIM Admission 2020, Placement 2019, fees, seat and CAT Cut-off || List DMS IIT MBA Admission 2020, placement 2019, Fees, seat and CAT Cut-off

 

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Important Dates

 

Event	Dates
CAT Exam 2020 Notification	July 29th, 2020
Application begins	Aug 5th, 2020 (Register Now)
Application Closed	Sep 23rd, 2020 (Extended)
Admit Card available	Oct 28th, 2020 ( Admit Card Download Begins at 10:00 PM )
CAT 2019 Exam	Nov 29th , 2020
CAT 2019 Exam Result	2nd week of Jan 2021
Registration fees	2000 for all other candidates.
Registration fees	1000 for SC, ST and PwD candidates

 

More than 2 Lac candidates appear in CAT exam every year. Last year 2.41 Lacs candidates had registered and applied for CAT while 2.09 Lac sat in exam.

 

Eligibility for CAT 2020 : If you have completed Bachelor's degree with 50% marks or completed professional degree (CA/CS/ICWA), or are in the final year of Bachelor's degree you can appear in CAT exam. There is no Age bar to apply and appear for CAT exam.

 

CAT 2020 Exam Pattern :180 Minutes duration CAT exam will be a computer delivered test will have 100 questions divided in 3 sections of VARC, DILR and Quantitative Ability. 25% No Penalty Questions: Out of 100 questions in CAT 2019, more than 25 questions will not have negative marking. CAT 2019 is divided into MCQ and Non-MCQ type of questions will not carry negative marking. In case any non-MCQ has negative marking, a few MCQs may be changed to no negative marking questions.

 

CAT Year & Number of Questions	VA	DI-LR	Quant
CAT Exam 2019	VARC-34. RC-24, (All MCQs), Verbal-10 (non MCQs)	DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8	Total-34. MCQs 23, Non-MCQs-11

Reservation : As per the legal requirements, 15% of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates, 27% for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the “Non-Creamy” layer (NC-OBC), up to 10% for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates and 5% for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwD).

List of IIMs with program offered, Fees and placement

IIM	Program offers	Seat	Fees	Placement (Avg Sal'20)
IIM A	MBA, MBA FABM	450	23	N.A
IIM B	MBA	500	23	26.18
IIM C	MBA	450	22.5	27.9
IIM L	PGP, PGP SM	450	19	24.35
IIM K'Kode	PGP, PGP FM	475	17.5	23.08
IIM I	PGP, IPM	450+150	16	22.9
IIM Shillong	PGP	210	14	18.
IIM Ranchi	PGP, PGPHRM	300	15.3	15.11
IIM Raipur	PGP	280	14.6	15.3
IIM Rohtak	PGP, IPM	210+150	15.2	13.7
IIM Kashipur	MBA, MBA Ana	180+60	15.2	13.9
IIM Trichy	PGP	210	18	14.96
IIM Udaipur	MBA	180	14.1	N.A
IIM Amritsar	MBA	120	12	12.65
IIM N'pur	MBA	240	13.75	13.1
IIM V	PGP	120	13.65	13.08
IIM Sirmaur	MBA	120	11.75	N.A
IIM S'pur	PGP	180	10	N.A
IIM BG	PGP	120	10.6	N.A
IIM Jammu	MBA	120	13.2	10.6