CAT Me If You Can: An Aspirant's Perspective

Around 2.3 Lakh Aspirants Vie With Each Other to Crack CAT 2007

Sunday, 18^th November 2007, saw around 2.3 Lakh MBA aspirants appearing for CAT 2007 which is touted as one of the toughest exams in the world, for admission to the six elite IIMs and a host of other not-so-elite management institutes in India. Of all the applications received, around 7,000 forms were rejected for various errors. CAT 2007 was held in 23 cities across the country.

However, unlike last year, this year�s exam passed without any glitch or major surprises, as in last year there was significant controversy over certain wrong questions as well as the pattern of paper.

CAT is undoubtedly not only the toughest exam to crack (given the large number of aspirants), but also one of the most unpredictable exam as there is neither any set pattern nor any certain difficulty level, though every year students as well as CAT coaching centers devote quite a significant amount of energy on predicting the CAT pattern without any success.

In the CAT 2007 paper, there were overall 75 questions - 25 each in the sections of mathematics, language and data interpretation. In CAT 2003, there were 150 questions, which got reduced to 123 in 2004, 90 in 2005. In 2006, the number of questions stood at 75.

The results of CAT 2007 are expected to be announced in Dec 2007.