CAT 2017 to be held on November 26, registrations begin August 9

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The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2017 that is conducted for admission into Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) will be held on November 26, 2017 in two sessions. The registrations for this begin on August 9 and close on September 20.

Professor Neeraj Dwivedi, Convener, CAT 2017 said that the test wiill be conducted in test centres spread across approximately 140 test cities. Candidates will be given the option to select 4 Test Cities in order of preference.

Test cities and centres will be assigned to the candidates only after the last date for CAT 2017 registration and hence candidates need not rush to block slots and cities in the initial days of registration.

"We will try our best to assign candidates to their first preferred city. In case it is not possible, they will be assigned a city following their given order of preference. In the rare case that a candidate is not allotted any of the preferred cities, he/she will be allotted to an alternate city. However, candidates will not be able to select the session because it will be assigned randomly," he said.

Candidates must pay the registration fee through online payment modes only, which include credit cards, debit cards and net banking.

After submission of Application, candidates will be permitted to download their Admit Card from October 18 till the date of test.

The duration of the test will be 180 minutes. There will be three sections: Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension  Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning and Quantitative Ability.

In CAT 2017, some questions in each section may not be of multiple choice type. Instead, direct answers will have to be typed on the screen. The tutorials will clearly explain this. Also, he said that they will allow use of basic on-screen calculator for computation.

Candidates will be allotted exactly 60 minutes for answering questions in each section and they cannot switch from one section to another while answering questions in a section.

The tutorial to understand the format of the test will be available on the CAT website from October 18. Candidates are advised to work on the tutorials, available on the website, well in advance.