CAT 2012 registrations increase slightly by 4%

The number of registrations for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 have gone up slightly by 4% to 215,000 this year the 2011 figure of 2.05 lakh.

Testing window for CAT 2012 will begin on October 11, 2012 and end on November 06, 2012. It will be coordinated by IIM-Kozhikode.

The full report on CAT 2012 registration data is expected to be available by October 5.

With less than a month left for CAT to kick off, the IIMs and Prometric teams will now visit the 61 centres in 36 cities for verifying and quarantining the testing labs. “We want to ensure that the infrastructure will be same across all centres”.

The test comprises two sections each of 70-minute duration. There will be 30 questions in each section which are to test quantitative ability and data interpretation, verbal ability and logical reasoning.

Apart from the 13 old and new IIMs, over 130 other B-schools across the country would be using CAT scores for admission for the academic year 2013-14.

Registrations for CAT 2012 began on 30 July and, like previous years since its conversion to computer-based testing, candidates have been scheduling for their tests online based on their preferred choice of location, date and time.

New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune are the top cities in terms of the highest numbers of scheduled tests to date.

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