The Common Admission Test (CAT) is an entrance examination conducted by
the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) for admission to 20 IIMs and over 100
B-schools across India. CAT 2017 exam will be held on Sunday, November 26, 2017
in 2 sessions of 3 hours duration each. More than two lakh candidates are
expected to appear in the examination this year. The test is conducted every
year by one of the IIMs based on a policy of rotation. This year CAT will be
conducted by Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. The registration for CAT 2017 started on 9th August and will close on 20th September 2017.
If you are an aspirant preparing for the CAT
2017 exam, here is the CAT 2016 paper analysis exclusively for you. After you analyse the paper, Solve CAT practice paper. CAT Practice sets will give you a brief idea on how you can solve the problems in less time and with greater accuracy.
The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016 was conducted on
4th December 2016 by IIM Bangalore. Over 2 lakh candidates took the Common
Admission Test (CAT) 2016 exam.The exam was scheduled from 9 am to 12 pm (first
slot) and 2 pm to 5 pm (second slot).
Exam Structure
The paper consisted of three sections namely
Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning and Verbal
Ability and Reading Comprehension with 100 questions.
Section
|
No. of MCQs
|
No. of non-MCQs
|
Total no of Questions
|
Total Marks
|
Section
I – Verbal & Reading Comprehension
|
24
|
10
|
34
|
34
|
Section
II – Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning
|
24
|
8
|
32
|
32
|
Section
III – Quantitative Aptitude
|
27
|
7
|
34
|
34
|
Total
|
75
|
25
|
100
|
100
|
Section wise Analysis
Verbal Ability: In terms of level of difficulty, the
section was easy to moderate. The exam was very similar to the exam last year. The
subjective para-jumble questions were tricky in nature. The exam did not feature any question from
vocabulary, FIJs, Phrasal verbs and so on. There were many logical structure
questions. The options were extremely tricky. Only one passage was difficult to
read. The others were easy and two passages were also very interesting. The
questions in Verbal ability were dominated by Verbal Logic and did not carry
any negative marking. The summary questions were easy.34 questions were asked
in this section. Students with good reading skills had an advantage in this
section.
Data Interpretation and
Logical Reasoning: This section
was lengthy and time-consuming in nature. Overall, this was the toughest
section in the exam.LR-DI was the toughest section in the exam.There were 16
questions each from the DI and LR areas. There were approximately 10 non-MCQs
in this section.The Data Interpretation questions were from categories like
Tables, Bar Graph, Charts and Line Graph.
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Quantitative Aptitude: There were 34 questions of QA. There were
7-8 Questions of Non MCQ type and the rest were MCQs. In terms of level of
difficulty, the section was moderate in nature but the section was trickier in
comparison to the last year. There were questions from regular topics like
Algebra, Geometry, Modern Math, Arithmetic and Number Systems. Commercial Math
(Percentage, Profit & Loss & Ratio) had good number of questions. There
was not a single question on probability.There were a good number of questions
from Geometry with one question from Pyramids as well.
The results of Common Admission Test was declared on
9th January 2016.CAT 2016, on the whole, was slightly difficult as compared to
the CAT 2015. The Quant and DILR section was Moderate to difficult, VARC
section was relatively easy, the Odd Para Jumbles and Para Jumbles questions were
difficult.
Also solve CAT Question Papers of previous years to
check your current level of preparation.Candidates must go through the previous
year question paper to understand the break-up of questions for different
sections. Attempt at least 2 to 3 mocks every week and analyze them thoroughly.
The analysis of mock paper will bring clarity on strengths and weaknesses.
CAT Previous year Paper Analysis
Reviewed by appliancerepair
on
September 19, 2017
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