New Delhi: The months’ long hard work and practice of cracking a plethora of some of the toughest questions will finally come to an end on January 11, 2012. Yes, that is the date declared by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) for announcing the results of Common Admission Test, popularly known as CAT, 2011. Regarded as one of the best and hardest entrance examinations in India to fight for a seat in one of the esteemed IIMs, the result will decide the fate of over 2 lakh candidates who took the test this year.
With just 40 days to go, the wait seems longer than before, as candidates keep their fingers crossed hoping to make it at least to one of these prestigious B-schools. Besides the IIMs, CAT opens the doors of admission into as many as top 25 good quality B-schools. Once the IIMs declare the CAT 2011 results, IIMs and other top MBA schools will start the process of short-listing candidates for Group Discussion (GD), Personal Interview (PI), and Writing Ability Test (WAT).
This year, CAT saw a total of 2,05,345 candidates registering their candidature for 2011 test. The exam was successfully conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Prometric, the service provider for the computer-based CAT. The test was held over a period of 20 days from October 22 to November 18, in 68 centers across 36 cities. Three new centers, namely, Bhilai, Jamshedpur, and Jammu, were added to the existing list of centers.
Further, two new state-of-the-art testing facilities were established in Gurgaon and Hyderabad by Prometric, this year. Candidates, who took the test, this year, saw a number of changes in the CAT. The testing sections were cut short to two from the prevailing three, while the check-in time was reduced by half an hour. Once the results are out, candidates can view their individual performance score cards by logging onto the CAT website: http://www.catiim.in/
