IIMs hoping for 10% increase in CAT 2013 applicants

IIMs are anticipating at least 10% increase in the number of applicants for the famed CAT 2013 owing to increase in the number of seats. Around 115 seats have been added that makes a total of 3,335 seats available across the 13 IIMs.

IIMs has also decided to give extra points to women during admissions, which further makes organizers to expect a bigger participation by female candidates.

However, the number of women applicants for CAT has been increasing steadily, from 53,700 in 2010 to 56,000 in 2011. In 2012 CAT, above 60,800 female candidates appeared in the Exam.

Besides the organiser of CAT 2013 have introduced e-vouchers along with the regular sale of paper vouchers. Moreover, four new testing locations i.e Surat, Udaipur, Trivandrum and Vijayawada has been added to the list of existing ones.

The number of CAT takers for over five years has been on declination. However, last year the number of registration increased but marginally with a total registration of 2, 14,068 applicants.