What makes CAT tougher than other MBA entrance exams?

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Vipra Shrivastava | Contributor-Level 10

8 months ago

CAT exam is a national level MBA entrance exam conducted by the IIM. Every year, over 2.3 lakh candidates apply for it. Since the last two years, the competition has increased further with oveer 3 lakh candidates applying for the exam.

The CAT score is accepted by the Iims and all top MBA colleges in

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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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