CAT 2011

CAT  2011 Common admission test 2011

CAT stands for Common Admission Test

Common Admission Test (CAT) is an all-India test conducted by the (IIMs) the IIMs stands for Indian Institutes of Management as an entrance test for the management programmes of six business schools.

The CAT is a Computer Based Test in Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning.


The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) And in some of the other prestigious institutions that would accept CAT scores for admission.

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) use the test as an important component in selecting students for the business management programs.

CAT 2011 Eligibility

The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s Degree, with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA [Require only 45 percentage marks in case of the candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste , Scheduled Tribe  and Differently Abled categories].


The qualification criterion that is needed for a student to apply for the Common Admission Test (CAT) is a graduate degree from an approved college. The students can be from any stream, but they are required to have a score of atleast 50 percent in their final exams. Those who are writing their final year exam are qualified to appear for the exam too.

CAT 2011 Important Dates and Notification

CAT 2011 Registration :

First Week of September to the Second Week of October, 2011
CAT 2011 Test Dates : Saturday, 22 October 2011 – Friday, 18 November 2011
CAT 2011 Result : Wednesday 11 January 2012

CAT 2011 Dates

CAT 2011 Exam Date:

Friday, 18 November 2011.

CAT 2011 Test Centers

Ahmedabad,Bangalore,Bhilai,Bhopal,Bhubaneswar,Chandigarh,Chennai  ,Cochin,Coimbatore,Dehradun, Durgapur,Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida,Gurgaon,Guwahati, Hyderabad,Indore ,Jaipur,Jammu,Jamshedpur  ,Kolkata,Kozhikode,Lucknow, Mumbai,Nagpur,Navi Mumbai,New Delhi,Noida,Patna,Pune,Ranchi,Shillong,Siliguri,Varanasi,Vishakhapatnam.

CAT 2011 Official Website :  http://www.catiim.in

CAT Centre
C/o Admissions Office
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Joka, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata-700 104
Phone: (+91) (33)-2467 9178(D) / 2467 8300-8306 (Ext.:148)
FAX: (+91) (33) 2438 0892(D), 2467 8062
E-Mail: catcentre@iimcal.ac.in
Website: http://www.catiim.in

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CAT 2011 Syllabus

1. Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency
2. Quantitative Aptitude
3. GK/GA/BA
4. English

1. Data Interpretation & Data Sufficiency:

*Data Interpretation based on text, Data Interpretation based on graphs and tables.
*Puzzles, Syllogisms, Functions, Family tree – identifying relationship among group of people, Symbol Based problems, Coding and decoding , Sequencing , identifying next number in series, etc.
*Critical reasoning, Visual reasoning, Assumption-Premise-Conclusion, Assertion and reasons, Statements and assumptions, identifying valid inferences , identifying Strong arguments and Weak arguments, Statements and conclusions, Cause and Effect, Identifying Probably true, Probably false, definitely true, definitely false kind of statement, Linear arrangements, Matrix arrangements.
*Graphs can be Column graphs, Bar Graphs, Line charts, Pie Chart, Graphs representing Area, Venn Diagram, etc.

2. Quantitative Aptitude

* Ratios and Proportion, Ratios, Percentages, In-equations
* Geometry, (Lines, angles, Triangles, Spheres, Rectangles, Cube, Cone etc)
* Quadratic and linear equations
* Installment Payments, Partnership, Clocks
* Profit & Loss
* Algebra
* Averages, Percentages, Partnership
* Simple Interest & Compound Interest
* Probability, Permutations & Combination
* Time-Speed-Distance, Work and time
* Number system: HCF, LCM, Geometric Progression, Arithmetic progression, Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean , Harmonic mean, Median, Mode, Number Base System, BODMAS
* Set Theory, Venn Diagram
* Mensuration, Alligation & Mixtures, Work, Pipes and Cisterns

3. GK/GA/BA :

*Famous award and prizes
*Current Affairs, Business, Punch line of companies, Top officials of big companies, Major corporate events
*Science, History, Geography, International organisations
*Books and authors
*Important quotations
*World Records
*Social issues, Sports, Finance, Automobiles, Entertainment, Politics etc.

4. English

*Comprehension of passage ( Poems can also come).
*Sentence Correction, Foreign language words used in English, Sentence completion, Sentence correction, odd man out, idioms, one word substitution, Different usage of same word etc.
*Verbal Reasoning, Syllogisms , Contextual usage, Analogies, Antonyms, Fill In the Blanks, Jumbled paragraphs with 4 or 5 sentences, Jumbled paragraphs (6 sentences with first and last fixed),

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