CAT 2014 Dates Announced; Registration Begins on August 6

Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM Indore) will conduct the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2014 for candidates seeking admission in IIMs and several other leading management institutes of India.

The examination will take place on two days - November 16 and November 22, 2014.

In order to make the exam more student-friendly, IIM Indore has introduced some major changes to the pattern this year:

1. Exam duration has been increased by 30 minutes – from 140 minutes (2 hours 20 minutes) to 170 minutes (2 hours 50 minutes).

2. Purchase of offline vouchers has been discontinued.

3. Number of questions in each section quantitative ability and data interpretation, verbal ability and logical reasoning sections has been increased to 50 from the existing 30 questions.

4. The window period of holding CAT exams has been cut down by IIM-Indore. Now, the test will be held only on two days. Earlier, the exam was conducted over a period of 22-days.

5. This year, CAT tutorials will not be available before the start of the exam. Candidates are, therefore, advised to go through the tutorials from the website well in advance.

6. Aspirants are required to pay CAT registration fee through online mode (Credit Card, Debit Card and Net Banking) only. 

7. Candidates will be able to control how they want to distribute exam time across various sections. This means candidates can switch from one section to another as they like.

8. CAT 2014 will be conducted across 99 cities. The number of examination centres has been increased to 354 – from just 45 test sites last year.

As announced earlier, IIM-Indore has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) to conduct the exam. TCS has conducted examination like GATE, JEE, AIPMT, JIPMER etc.

IIM Indore, which is holding the CAT exam for the second consecutive time, has announced the important dates.

CAT 2014 Important Dates