What makes CAT tougher than other MBA entrance exams?

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Vipra Shrivastava | Contributor-Level 10

3 weeks ago

India's premiere b-schools accept CAT for MBA admissions. More than 2.5 lakh candidates fighting for limited seats at these institutes make the exam tough to crack.

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Jiya Tyagi | Contributor-Level 10

a year ago

Common Admission Test or CAT is a national-level management aptitude test conducted by IIM for admission to MBA. Each year, over 2.3 Lacs candidates take the CAT exam, which is accepted by the IIMs and top MBA colleges in India. It is important to apply strict selection criteria to identify the top

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Sahil Arora | Contributor-Level 8

2 years ago

The Common Admission Test (CAT) is conducted by IIM every year in the month of November. CAT is considered one of the toughest exams in India due to various factors some of which are competitive nature, time constraints, difficulty of questions, no fixed syallbus, WAT and many more. Every year more

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