CAT (Common Admission Test) examination is conducted by different IIMs each year around the month of November. The test is conducted by IIMs for the selection of students for its various business administration programs. CAT doesn’t provide a fixed syllabus for the exam, although questions pertaining to intermediate school learnings in English, Mathematics, and Logical Reasoning are asked. This test comprises of three sections namely Quantitative Ability, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Interpretation &Logical reasoning. There is a fixed duration of 1hour each for the above three sections. The score obtained in the examination is a prerequisite not only for admission in IIMs but also for other top B-Schools. The validity of the score is for one year only. Although IIMs don’t specify the exact syllabus, our team has categorized the syllabus, which is extremely important to get an overview of the exam.
Syllabus for CAT Exam
| Verbal Ability | Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning | Quantitative ability |
| Reading Comprehension | Caselets | Numbers
· Number Systems · Progressions |
| Para jumbles | Bar Graphs | Averages and Mixture
· Averages · Alligations |
| Fact-inference-judgment | Pie Charts | Arithmetic and word-based problems
· Percentages · Profit & Loss · Interest · Ratio Proportion and Variations · Time and Work · Time, Speed and Distance |
| Para completion | Line charts | Geometry
· Geometry · Mensuration · Coordinate Geometry |
| Para summary | Tables | Algebra
· Functions · Inequalities · Quadratic and other equations · Logarithms |
| Analogies and reverse analogies | Venn diagrams | Counting
· Permutations and Combinations · Probability · Set Theory |
| Fill in the blanks | Calendars | |
| First Sentence of Paragraph | Cubes and Cuboids | |
| Seating Arrangements | ||
| Logical sequencing | ||
| Team Formation | ||
| Rankings | ||
| Binary Logics | ||
| Blood Relations | ||
| Games and Tournament | ||
| Miscellaneous Reasoning Questions |
