OVER 2,000 students have appeared in Common Admission Test (CAT)-2025 across Chhattisgarh to get admission into MBA programs at any one of 22 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top business schools of the country. In Chhattisgarh, the examination was conducted into three exam centers, one each in capital Raipur, Bilaspur and Bhilainagar.

 

The IIM Kozhikode, the organiser of CAT-2025 into three time slots. Over 2500 students registered for CAT-2025 across Chhattisgarh and of them, over 2000 students appeared in this examination into three time slots, first one from 8.30 am to 10.30 am, second one from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm and third one from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm. In this 120-minute long examination, total 68 questions were asked from three sections, maximum 24 questions from Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), 22 questions from Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) and remaining 22 questions from Quantitative Analysis (QA). For each section, students got only 40 minutes to attempt all of the questions.

 

In morning slot, aspirants found DILR very difficult and time consuming. Because of lengthy questions, majority of the examinees could not attempt all 22 questions in the section. On the other hand, in VLRC as well as DILR sections, students found paper moderate and most of them have succeeded to attempt all questions. On the other hand in noon slot, students found all section moderate to solve and managed to attempt all questions in each section. In evening slot, students found questions of QA time consuming but questions of DILR and VLRC moderate to solve. In recent years, CAT exam has divided into two patterns.

 

The first pattern is TITA (Type in the answer), where students type the answer directly into text box and there is no option of multiple choice questions. Here, student scores three marks for correct answer and zero marks for wrong answer. In traditional CAT pattern, student gets multiple choice questions, where student scores three marks for correct answer and -1 for wrong answer. Priyanka Sharma, CAT aspirant said that most of them appeared in TITA section.

 

Ashish Puri said that he had managed to solve attempt 55 questions and believe that he will be able to score over 95 percentile marks in the exam. Dr Rajnikant Sharma, CAT online tutor said that this year CAT did not ask very difficult questions and it will raise the cutoff procedure in admission. With addition of IIM Guwahati, now there are 22 IIMs in the country along with 50 top business schools which will accept CAT scores in admission process.