Common Admission Test (CAT) is conducted for the admissions to the various IIMs in the country. This test is considered one of the most important in the country like IIT-JEE, and the UPSC Civil Services examination. Perhaps the most attention-grabbing aspect of the CAT is its versatility i.e., the changes introduced from year to year as a big surprise to the examinees. This has been observed over 15-20 years of constantly changing patterns and type of questions. During preparation, candidates should focus on the development of your intelligence to crack the CAT. The difference between 75 percentile and 90 percentile score is never more than 5-7 questions. For this reason any candidate who has scored 75 percentile in the CAT could have got a percentile of 97-99 by just approaching six to eight questions differently.

Pattern of Exam

There are following three sections

(i) Verbal Ability/Reading Comprehension.

(ii) Quantitative Ability

(iii) Data interpretation & Reasoning

Generally there are total 150 questions which have to be answered in 120 minutes. The Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension section contains approximately 25 questions each and the marks allotted are 50.In the Quantitative Ability section, there are approximately 50 questions and the marks allocated are 50. The questions comprise of Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Permutation and miscellaneous section. There are usually 26,9,9,5 and I questions of the above sections respectively. Data interpretation and reasoning section consists of total 50 questions approximately for 50 marks. The section consists of 32,8 and 10  questions on Data Interpretation, Data Sufficiency and Reasoning respectively. Candidate is required to demonstrate competence in all the sections of the test. It is well known that type of questions and the style of setting questions vary almost every year making it difficult to guess about the type of questions.