About CAT,IIT-JEE Examination

Introduction
Common Admission Test (CAT), is the common entrance exam that you have to take to get admission to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, and Kozhikode. Many other institutes like, MICA, Nirma Institute of Management, S.P. Jain Institute, also draw out their candidates based on the performance in CAT.

CAT syllabus

The exam consists of four parts which are
• Verbal Ability
• Reading Comprehension
• Problem Solving
• Data Interpretation.
All the questions are multiple choice and you should shade your choice of answer (only with a HB pencil) in the computer coded answer sheet. For every correct answer, you get one mark and for every wrong answer, you loss 1/4th of a mark.

When this exam conducted and what is the eligibility criteria?

The exam is conducted once a year on the second Sunday of December. Qualification for the exam, you must be a graduate or studying in the final year. The advertisements for the exam start appearing in the national dailies as early as August 23rd. The centre for the examination is allotted according to the preference of the candidate.

Selection Process
The most important factor is time in these exam, and there are no ranks as such. Out of the 185 questions, if you attempt 100, and out of the hundred if you get 90 correct, then your chances are better than a person who has attempted all the 185 but only cleared 160 questions. After the written exam, the candidates are ranked and then only the very best are called by the IIMs. The other institutes also start sending call letters. The candidate also has to buy the application forms of these other institutes and apply to them individually.

After the exam, the selected candidates have to undergo a group interview. This will be more like a stress interview where the candidates are posed with real problems, for which they have to discuss and arrive at an amicable solution. Often these group interviews, turn into mega shouting matches filled with chaos as everybody talks at the same time. Then comes the interview that is equally detailed in nature.

The forms for the exam can be bought from the State Bank of India & the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

The new eligibility criteria for this year's CAT, to be held on November 19, was announced by the IIMs.
The announcement stipulates that candidates must hold a Bachelor's Degree with at least 50 per cent marks to be eligible this year as against only "successful completion" of their graduation hitherto.
It has been fixed at 45 per cent marks this year for students belonging to SC, ST or persons with disability category, it said.
The duration of the examination is also set to increase by 30 minutes to two-and-a-half hours.

IIT JEE Information
Admission to the Five-year Dual Degree Programmes and 5-year Integrated M.Tech. and M.Sc. Programmes is made through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is common for all the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Roorkee), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and the Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi.

IIT JEE Syllabus
The Examination will consist of one Screening Paper of 3 hours duration in Mathes, Physics and Chemistry. Those who qualify in the screening test have to appear in the Main Examination consisting of three papers in Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry, each of 2 hours duration. Candidates called for counseling and wishing for joining the B.Arch. and B.Des. Courses will be required to qualify in a two-hour aptitude test to be conducted at each counseling Institute.

Eligibility criteria
The minimum academic qualification for admission through JEE is a pass in the final examination of 10+2 system or its equivalent. Those appearing in 10+2 final or equivalent examination may also appear in JEE (Screening Test and Main Examination) for consideration of provisional admission. All provisional admissions will stand cancelled if the proof of having passed the qualifying examination (10+2 or its equivalent) is not submitted to the Institute concerned by particular time.

For admission to the B.Pharm. Course at the IT-BHU a candidate must have Biology as a subject at the (10+2) level qualifying examination.



Physical Fitness
It is expected that the candidates will have good general physique. They have to produce a certificate to that effect in the prescribed format. Candidates opting for Mining or Mining Machinery Engineering should make sure that they are free from colour blindness.

Language for Answering JEE
The question papers for Joint Entrance Examination are in two languages English and Hindi. The candidates are permitted to write the Main Examination in any one of the following languages: Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.