<p>The first section will have questions on quantitative ability and data interpretation while the second will be on verbal ability and logical reasoning. These two sections will be implemented sequentially.<br /><br />Candidates will have 70 minutes to answer 30 questions in each section which will have an on-screen countdown timer. Once the time ends for the first section, they will move to the second and will no longer be able to go back.<br /><br />A 15-minute tutorial will be provided to candidates before the beginning of the main test. The total duration will be two hours and 35 minutes, including the tutorial.<br /><br />Practice test <br /><br />To provide candidates with a feel of the timed sections as well as navigation and functionality of the actual test, a practice test will be made available by the organisers of the common admission tiest in the coming weeks.<br /><br />The test will be conducted within a 20-day period from October 22 to November 18 to provide candidates with the flexibility of choosing a convenient day for test. For the differently-abled, additional support will be provided, according to IIM Kolkata.<br /><br />“CAT 2011 will help us identifying the appropriate candidates for our programmes, and that the examination will be fair and equitable,” professor Janakiraman Moorthy, convenor for CAT 2011, said.<br /><br />Considerable effort has been invested in maintaining similar level of difficulty across papers. A small number of statistically and psychometrically validated questions are randomly inserted in each question paper as equating blocks. These will be used for assessing post test equality across the days, he added.<br /><br />The IIMs and Prometric, a provider of market-leading test development and test delivery solutions, which is a partner in developing and delivering CAT 2011, have reviewed the operational process and contingent on the continued punctuality of candidates.<br /><br />The check-in procedure this year will start one-and-a-half hours before the scheduled time instead of the previous two hours.<br /><br />“With this change, we are also able to have an earlier start time of 3:15pm for the afternoon session,” Moorthy said.<br /><br />To offer convenience to more candidates, three new cities—Bhilai, Jammu and Dehradun—have been added to the previous 33 locations. “This will help in bringing CAT closer to the northern states of the country,” he said.<br /><br />Although new in the computer-based version of the common admission test, this format was previously practiced in some of the earlier paper-and-pencil years.<br /><br />A video on the conversion of CAT to a computer-based test and candidate impressions of this transition will be made available on YouTube by the end of this week.</p>
<p>The first section will have questions on quantitative ability and data interpretation while the second will be on verbal ability and logical reasoning. These two sections will be implemented sequentially.<br /><br />Candidates will have 70 minutes to answer 30 questions in each section which will have an on-screen countdown timer. Once the time ends for the first section, they will move to the second and will no longer be able to go back.<br /><br />A 15-minute tutorial will be provided to candidates before the beginning of the main test. The total duration will be two hours and 35 minutes, including the tutorial.<br /><br />Practice test <br /><br />To provide candidates with a feel of the timed sections as well as navigation and functionality of the actual test, a practice test will be made available by the organisers of the common admission tiest in the coming weeks.<br /><br />The test will be conducted within a 20-day period from October 22 to November 18 to provide candidates with the flexibility of choosing a convenient day for test. For the differently-abled, additional support will be provided, according to IIM Kolkata.<br /><br />“CAT 2011 will help us identifying the appropriate candidates for our programmes, and that the examination will be fair and equitable,” professor Janakiraman Moorthy, convenor for CAT 2011, said.<br /><br />Considerable effort has been invested in maintaining similar level of difficulty across papers. A small number of statistically and psychometrically validated questions are randomly inserted in each question paper as equating blocks. These will be used for assessing post test equality across the days, he added.<br /><br />The IIMs and Prometric, a provider of market-leading test development and test delivery solutions, which is a partner in developing and delivering CAT 2011, have reviewed the operational process and contingent on the continued punctuality of candidates.<br /><br />The check-in procedure this year will start one-and-a-half hours before the scheduled time instead of the previous two hours.<br /><br />“With this change, we are also able to have an earlier start time of 3:15pm for the afternoon session,” Moorthy said.<br /><br />To offer convenience to more candidates, three new cities—Bhilai, Jammu and Dehradun—have been added to the previous 33 locations. “This will help in bringing CAT closer to the northern states of the country,” he said.<br /><br />Although new in the computer-based version of the common admission test, this format was previously practiced in some of the earlier paper-and-pencil years.<br /><br />A video on the conversion of CAT to a computer-based test and candidate impressions of this transition will be made available on YouTube by the end of this week.</p>
