CAT 2012 : 4 Exam FAQs

What is the marking scheme in CAT 2012?

CAT follows negative marking scheme. Each correct answer carries 1 mark and incorrect deducts -1 mark.

Is there any individual section wise cut-off?

Yes, there are section cut-offs. However there is no such fixed cut-off for individual sections on written test. Cut off lists (total as well as sectional) are declared every year for respective year and respective sections as per the difficulty level of test.

What’s the syllabus of CAT written test?

There is no any syllabus for CAT as such. However, based upon the previous year’s analysis and study, it is quite clear that CAT requires you to have strong basics. If you have studied Math and English quite well till your 10^th Standard, then CAT is for sure, your cup of tea. But, if not, then also you have sufficient time to go through your school basics and broader your scope for admission into one of the top most MBA/PGDM institute of India.

Written Test will be divided into 2 sections:

1.  Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation
2. Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning

These two sections will be implemented sequentially with separate time limits.

What will be the duration of the test?

The examination will be of 140 minutes. Candidates will have 70 minutes to answer 30 questions within each section which will have an on-screen countdown timer.

Aspirants, you need to go for MOCK TESTS as that will help you to achieve mission CAT 2012. 

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CAT 2012: Essential Points to be considered while writing essay

The importance of essays in the selection procedure of IIMs is known to all. Here we are discussing few points that student should consider while writing essays.

Be yourself in your essays

Do not assume personalities based on what you think a particular B School wants from you. Many of you may not realize this but an essay smells of a personality always. If someone is reading 4- 5 essays about you, he can feel what kind of personality you are and his sixth sense will spot all the inconsistencies and false portrayals. If you be yourself in your essays, you will invariably avoid these inconsistencies.

Be Interesting

People don’t care whether you're good or evil. But no one will forgive you for being boring. Funny but true!! So be interesting in your essays. You don’t have to be a creative writer to do this. Imagine that you are going to tell something interesting about yourself to your friends. Then think about how you would narrate it. And then write it down. 

Show the person that you are

It is very strange that many students do not realize that B-Schools genuinely want to know them as a person. They want to know what choices you have made in life and why. Essays are personal statements you can make about yourself. Keep your essays full of insight about yourself. Don’t keep your essays so superficial that someone reading them doesn’t have a clue about you. For this to happen, you need to go through a lot of introspection about yourself. The sooner you start the better.

Stay focused

While answering an essay question, do not wander into details that are irrelevant to the essay. Keep your focus and include only those details which are crucial for building your essay.

Go ahead and achieve mission CAT 2012 

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CAT 2012: Understanding VA Section

The Verbal Ability Section of CAT 2012 will give you an opportunity to score high percentile in this particular section as well as in CAT 2012. However, preparation matters a lot if you wish to score high in this section. The Verbal Ability part tests your grasp on English language, and your ability to understand written words in the Reading Comprehension section.

The verbal ability section used to have high weight in paper based test of CAT till 2008. Since 2009, when the Common Admission Test turned computer based, the two sections, i.e. Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning started getting equal weightage. 

The cutoff of the VA section is gaining momentum as this section went through various changes over the past few years. 

The number of Verbal Ability questions which were 25 out of 75 questions in 2007, increased to 40 out of 90 questions in 2008 increasing the percentage and making CAT a little moderate but still tough enough. It has been since 2009 that the Verbal Ability questions have remained at 20 out of 60 and have become moderately tough to attempt.

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CAT 2012: Tips for Geometry, Coordinate Geometry and Menstruation

Geometry, Coordinate Geometry and Menstruation are grouped together since they deal with the portion of QA that can be visualized. Of the three, maximum weightage is given to geometry, although every CAT paper will have 3-4 questions on mensuration, as well as a couple of questions on coordinate geometry, totaling about 25-30% of questions in the QA section.

Topics that need to be covered in geometry are basic theorems involving triangles, circles and parallel lines. A common type of question that is often asked in CAT is to find the value of certain angles or length of certain sides. Therefore, make sure that you cover topics such as congruency and similarity of triangles.

The only things that you need to do in coordinate geometry are straight lines and circles. Given the equation of a circle, you should be able to comment on the centre and radius of the circle and draw it on a piece of graph paper, and nothing more. Similarly, you should know what the slope and y-intercept of a given straight line equation is, and be able to draw the line on a piece of graph paper.

For mensuration, flip through a school level textbook for basic formulae on areas, surface areas and volumes of triangles, circles, cylinders, cones, cuboids and spheres. Mensuration problems are calculation intensive, and require lots of practice.

Get on to preparation and practice that will achieve you mission CAT 2012 

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CAT 2012: Bother for Preparation and not for Exam Procedure

CAT 2012 dates will be officially announced on coming Sunday 22^nd July.  Aspirants like you are curious to know exam details. 

A certain amount of curiosity is valid but worrying around on exam procedure may waste time  as time is very crucial component  for you not only for preparation but with passage of time only you will gather momentum of speed. 

CAT exam is combination of logic and speed.  Both can be gained with practice and the best way is to achieve this is to practice Mock Tests.

 

You must remember that even after getting scores you have to go for another step of Extempore Speech, WAT, GD and PI hence, it is advisable to prepare for CAT 2012 with 360 degree approach and give yourself a complete overhaul of SWOT for each step of CAT exam.

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CAT 2012: Wonderful 2 approaches for RC

Primarily the students opt for any one of the following approach for answering the Reading Comprehension Questions: 

The PQ Approach (passage first, then the questions)

• PQ - Read the entire passage thoroughly first and then read the questions
• P scan Q - Skim & Scan through the passage and keep going back and forth with questions and passage
• 2PQ, 4PQ, 6PQ - Read the first 2 paragraphs, scan all the questions and see what you can answer, then read Para 3 & 4, scan the questions and see what you can answer, then read Para 5& 6!!

The QP approach (questions first, then the passage)

• QP - Read all the questions with their answer options first and then the passage
• 1QP, 2QP, 3QP, 4QP - Read question 1 with all the options, then go through the entire passage to answer it. Then read question 2, go through the entire passage. Then question 3!
• Q stem P - Just read all the question stems, without reading the answer options. Then read the passage and try answering the questions by reading them with the options.

You can rely on above wonderful approaches and be successful in achieving mission CAT 2012

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