CAT 2016 notification out; exam on December 4

MUMBAI: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have announced the registration for Common Admission Test 2016 ( CAT 2016).

The exam will be held on December 4. Online registrations will start on August 8 and continue till September 22.

According to a press release issued by professor Rajendra K. Bandi, Convenor, CAT 2016, IIM Bangalore, the exam will be conducted in two sessions on one day across 138 cities.

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

Some questions in each section may not be of multiple choice type. Instead, direct answers are to be typed on the screen. 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.

Tutorial to understand the format of the examination will be available on the CAT website from 18th October 2016. Candidates are advised to work on the tutorials, available on the website, well in advance.

Results will be released tentatively in the second week of January 2017.