The paper was different as was highly advertised by IMS but was it up to the CAT standard?. The pattern was a surprise but the questions were not that tough. The cutoff should go beyond 50 and that's quite high compare to last couple of CAT exams.

The first step to get admission in a b school is to clear the written exam. In India there are few institutes like FMS, IIFT, IRMA which conduct their own written exam but most of the other institutes do their preliminary selection on the basis of all India MBA entrance exams like CAT, XAT, MAT, JMET, ATMA, SNAP.