Wow. What a CAT.

And now this. Just 90 questions. While questions have been heading southward, no one expected a sub-100 number of questions. What next ?? Just 10 question in CAT ? This, in our opinion, was not a test for the weak hearted. Hole your hears, the cut-offs would not be very high. List of surprises: 1. 60 two markers ????? 2. Negative marking scheme declared. 3. Just 90 questions. Looking at 90 questions only, it was obvious tat the paper will not be easy. And definitely not Verbal and RC. Section wise Analysis: Quantitative Section : The overall pattern was fairly interesting, with 6-7 relatively easy questions in the 1 marker variety and another 6-7 in the 2 markers. 16-17 for a 98 plus percentile. 14 – 15 for a 93 plus percentile, which would also be the cutoff for most IIMs. A score of around 12 would get you 85 + percentile, which would be for calls from other B-schools. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension : What a VA and RC. Just 30 questions would make people feel that they would attempt them all. But the answer options in RC were very close and some of the verbal questions were unanswerable. A score of 25 + would be good. Most people would attempt around 35-38 marks worth of questions and hence the cutoff is likely to stand at last years level. Cut-off would be around 22 + and a score of 25 will be 98 plus percentile, and 22 at 93 percentile, sufficient for call from the.for IIMs and a score of around 18 would give you a 85 plus percentile. Data Interpretation : A blood bath must have ensued in DI. The ten 1-markers alone would have taken 20 minutes to answer, as one of them was calculation intensive (area under cultivation) and the other was very logical (average ages). If a student answers these 10 and manages to attempt a few 2 markers, he would sail through. Our expectation is that the cut-off in DI would be very low. So a 15 would get you 98 plus percentile, and 12 would get you a 92 plus percentile, which would be sufficient for IIM cut-offs. A score of 10 would be required for 85 percentile. Overall: Not a great paper by any standards. A huge let-down. The IIMs could have done much better. A very intimidating paper. Overall Cut-offs 55 plus for all 6 IIM calls, given sectional cut-offs are met. 50 plus for 1-2 IIM calls, maybe more. This would correspond to 98 percentile. A score of around 42-43 would be sufficient to get 90 percentile, and get calls from top B-schools affiliated to CAT. Keys available in few links Career Forum TIME IMS TCY Online My Approx score Quans 7 DI 16.67 Verbal 4(as per IMS Key) 13.33(as per TIME key) Dunno!! Courtesy- Career Avenues & PaGaLGuY.com Present CAT-2005 Analysis By PaGaLGuY.com News Service Published: November 20, 2005

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