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Know The Latest Changes In CAT 2017 Entrance Exam Pattern

Know The Latest Changes In CAT 2017 Entrance Exam Pattern

CAT 2017 is just a few days away and the aspirants are already in stress. Now it’s time for the CAT Aspirants to lock themselves in their rooms and prepare their minds for one of the leading MBA entrance tests of India.

The first thing to be cleared about CAT entrance is there is no specific strategy or any proper guideline to crack the CAT exam. But as rightly said- “Where there’s a will there’s a way”, the same way there is a tactic that the CAT aspirants can design one for themself. This article by www.apnamba.com incorporates everything a CAT Aspirants needs to do to turn up with an effective strategy that will help him/her to crack CAT 2017 paper without facing any trouble and join the MBA program in Top B-schools of India.

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Let’s have a look at some changes in the latest CAT 2017 Entrance exam pattern:

  • CAT 2017 will be conducted for whole 180 minutes i.e., 3 hours instead of the 170 minutes that was conducted before.
  • It would consist of three foremost sections: Verbal Ability, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, and Quantitative Aptitude.
  • Each section will be allotted with time limit of 60 minutes i.e. 1 hour to solve. Since the mode of the test is online, each section will shut down automatically with the saved answers after reaching time limit of 1 hour.
  • The question paper will include both Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) as well as Non Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs).
  • MCQs carries negative mark but the Non MCQs will not have any negative marking.

If you look at each section for CAT, it has some or the other hacks to crack the test section wise. But there are also some common points that the CAT aspirants have to keep in mind while appearing the exam.

  • The CAT aspirants are not supposed to attempt all the questions. Whether the questions are difficult or not, each question carries the equal amount of marks. So attempt the easy questions or the ones that you are confident about as for every easy question you solve correctly you get 3 marks.But for every difficult question that you are not confident enough and if it’s incorrect, you can lose a mark. Always remember accuracy is important than the number of questions.
  • Sometimes you can choose the answer by process of elimination. Eliminate the answers from the given options which are absolutely not the answer and zero down to the correct option.
  • Last but not the least, the CAT aspirants should be confident, calm and relaxed. It can surely help you crack the CAT.

Believing, this article gave you an idea about recent changes taken in CAT 2017 entrance. Once you know the pattern of entrance, it becomes easier to strategies and crack exam with good score. ApnaMBA.com- India’s Premier Online MBA Portal helps all CAT Aspirants to take admission in Top B-Schools of India by giving a personalized counselling. If you are looking to appear mock test and download previous year question papers, then visit us at www.apnamba.com and download all CAT Study materials at free of cost.

Best of luck to all!