CAT Entrance for MBA Admission 2014

MBA admission 2014

CAT Entrance for MBA Admission 2014

The CAT exam is the common entrance exam of MBA(Master of Business Administration), which is conducted to get Admission to IIM’s and Business Schools of Delhi or India.

The first step to attain the dream of pursuing MBA Admissions 2014 is to take the MBA entrance exams conducted by the various Management institutes in India. CAT or the Common Admission Test, which is conducted by Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to gain admission to Management College in Delhi or India. If you are planning to take CAT 2014 or have started your preparation for the same, in this article, you will know about the yearly pattern of CAT as well as Eligibility for CAT.

Highs

Higher number of applicants: This year, the number of applications increased by around 4.5 per cent. With this positive change, the management education scenario of India that witnessed a pall of gloom in the last couple of years is seeing a glimmer of hope.
Around 2.15 lakh candidate bought the CAT 2013 vouchers. Of this, 2.14 lakh candidates registered themselves for the exam. About 9,000 more candidates appeared for CAT this year compared with CAT 2013, which saw 2.05 lakh candidates taking the test. Dr. Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIM Kozhikode, said: “The rise in the number of CAT takers is a positive indication that people have restored faith in the exam. The higher number of experienced candidates has also indicated that the economy is going to improve over the next two-three years.”


More female candidates: CAT 2013 witnessed a positive trend with respect to the pursuit for the gender equality in high quality management institutes in Delhi. This year, as many as 60,876 female candidates registered out of the total 2.14 lakh candidates. The share of female candidates was 28.4 per cent. The number of female candidates appearing for CAT 20134 was 56,050. “The shift in the candidate pool in terms of the gender and social balance as well as work experience is a positive indication that our society is becoming more aware of the opportunities that are available,” said Prof SSS Kumar, CAT 2013 convenor from IIM Kozhikode, the institute which is conducting the examination.

Balanced questions: The difficulty level of the questions among the two sections was balanced. Though initially the difficulty level was higher in the quantitative ability & data interpretation section, the verbal ability & logical reasoning section too got tough in following days. This ensured that the overall the difficulty level was balanced and not skewed towards a particular section. “In earlier slots, the quantitative ability & data interpretation section ruled. But from middle slots, verbal ability questions got equally tough and ambiguous and logical reasoning questions became trickier,” said Gautam Puri, vice-chairman, Career Launcher.

Lows

Disruptions at test centers: Despite all the measures taken at the test centers to avoid glitches, CAT 2014 could still not offer a 100 per cent glitch-free testing experience to test takers. Apart from a few stray incidents in Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata, a major disruption took place in Delhi on October 20, 2012, the eighth day of the 21-day test.

High difficulty in QA proved tough for

non-engineering students: Though the difficulty level of CAT 2014 was balanced in the later slots, initially the toughness quotient rested only on the quantitative ability & data interpretation section and the verbal ability & logical reasoning area seemed to be a cakewalk. This skewed distribution of the difficulty level once again seemed to prove CAT as a test meant for students from the engineering and science backgrounds. “The quantitative ability & data interpretation section remained the toughest throughout. Though the difficulty level of the verbal ability & logical reasoning section went up later, the first section was always high on the difficulty level compared with the second section,” Arks Srinivas, CEO, VistaMind Education, said.

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