25-Oct-2017
The admit cards for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2017 are expected to be out today i.e October 25 on the official website, iimcat.ac.in
This year, approximately 2.31 lakh candidates have successfully registered for the computer-based CAT 2017 to be held on November 26 in two sessions.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow admission chairperson and strategic management faculty, Neeraj Dwivedi has been appointed as the convener for CAT.
Examination pattern:
The test will have three sections namely:
Selection procedure:
The selection of candidates will be done on the basis of Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD) followed by Personal Interviews (PI) round. All the selected candidates will get admission in around 20 IIM institutes established in various parts of the nation.
Normalisation of CAT scores in 2017:
In order to ensure fairness and equity in comparison of performances of the candidates across different test sessions, the scores of the candidates shall be subjected to a process of 'Normalisation'
The 'Normalisation' process shall adjust for location and scale differences of score distributions across different forms
After normalisation across different forms, the scores shall be further normalised across different sections.
Important dates:
Date of Examination: