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Education Industry & Economy - Education Format, content baffle students yet again Anjali Prayag
Bangalore , Nov. 20 TRUE to its hallmark of being unpredictable, the Common Admission Test today stumped students yet again in its format and content. CAT, said to be one of the toughest qualifying exams across the globe to gain entry into a professional course, on Sunday posed the lowest number of questions ever (90), giving higher weightage to each question. The paper was conceptually much superior than the previous years and tested the reasoning skills of the students, according to Mr Prahlad Rao, Director, Career Plan, a Bangalore-based training institute for management entrance tests. Last year, the paper was designed to test the attitude of the students rather than their aptitude. "It tested the ability of persons who made choices under pressure," says Mr Rao. This year, the two tricky sections were data interpretation and verbal ability, says Mr Ajay Arora, Centre Director, Triumphant Institute of Management Education, Bangalore. Over 32,000 students from the institute across the country took the exam this year. TIME faculty members have even predicted cut-off marks of 44 for a call from one of the IIMs and about 55 for call letters from all six IIMs.
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