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Gautam puri predicts on what students can expect in the extra half-an-hour of the CAT exam this year.
The common admission test has always been a two hour affair but this year the conducting body decided to increase the duration to two and a half hours announced the change in the CAT notification 2006
the immediate questions that came into our mind were, what should students expect in the extra half an hour?
The CAT changed its colour both in terms of pattern and content at least seven times in the last 10 years. But over the last few years, CAT has changes the level of content and the theme of the paper accordingly.
Clearly speed is not an issue now in the CAT. So the extra half an hour perhaps is not an indication towards increased number of questions. In fact, the numner of questions came down from 150 in 2003 to 123 in 2004 And finally it touched 90 in the year 2005 so from the trend we may conclude that the volume of the paper will not be the focus even now.
But we must also keep in mind that the level of difficulty has consistently increased and the cut-off marks have steadily dropped. In fact last year, a score of 45 out of 150 was good enough to get an interview call from at least a couple of IIMs Now to test the decision making ability and reasoning skill of an aspirant CAT wants to allow them more time to ponder. students may expect more reasoning based questions and choice of questions may become critical.
So, to an aspirant, who is already accustomed to the pracice tests of 150 minutes duration, it will not make any difference. they have already learnt to spread the extra available thirty minutes among the three sections.
My advice to the aspirants is to absorb this extra half an hour uniformly. initially give equal time to all the three sections and then adjust it according to the areas of strength weakness. Let us see what transpires on November 19.
Gautam puri predicts on what students can expect in the extra half-an-hour of the CAT exam this year.
The common admission test has always been a two hour affair but this year the conducting body decided to increase the duration to two and a half hours announced the change in the CAT notification 2006
the immediate questions that came into our mind were, what should students expect in the extra half an hour?
The CAT changed its colour both in terms of pattern and content at least seven times in the last 10 years. But over the last few years, CAT has changes the level of content and the theme of the paper accordingly.
Clearly speed is not an issue now in the CAT. So the extra half an hour perhaps is not an indication towards increased number of questions. In fact, the numner of questions came down from 150 in 2003 to 123 in 2004 And finally it touched 90 in the year 2005 so from the trend we may conclude that the volume of the paper will not be the focus even now.
But we must also keep in mind that the level of difficulty has consistently increased and the cut-off marks have steadily dropped. In fact last year, a score of 45 out of 150 was good enough to get an interview call from at least a couple of IIMs Now to test the decision making ability and reasoning skill of an aspirant CAT wants to allow them more time to ponder. students may expect more reasoning based questions and choice of questions may become critical.
So, to an aspirant, who is already accustomed to the pracice tests of 150 minutes duration, it will not make any difference. they have already learnt to spread the extra available thirty minutes among the three sections.
My advice to the aspirants is to absorb this extra half an hour uniformly. initially give equal time to all the three sections and then adjust it according to the areas of strength weakness. Let us see what transpires on November 19.
