The pattern of CAT2006 – my prediction
[color=darkblue]CAT – The most difficult and unpredictable exam has no pattern as such. To surprise the cat takers, the examiners always come up with new patterns. While preparing for CAT, one should concentrate on all the basics with out thinking anything about the pattern of the paper but while appearing the mock CATs and FLTs one should try to get a feel of the pattern of the exams taken by all the coaching centers. Few coaching centers have been successful in predicting many things about CAT before the real exam. Erudite was first the institute to come up with mock CAT consisting of questions of different marks and we saw a similar CAT pattern last year. CAT has always given priority to two things (i) TIME per each question (ii) Standard of the Paper. In early 90s there used to be 170-180 questions, which is now reduced to 90 questions, but the standard of questions becoming more and more tough. With reduced number of questions it became easier for the students in reading all the questions and thus selecting which one to attempt and which one to leave out. So my prediction is that next time we might see a paper where the number of questions is more than the number of questions one need to attempt. Why? , Just to make the students read more, have less time and so a good test of time management. Structure of the paper Number of questions =120, one need to attempt any 90 questions. Please do suggest your exam patterns.[/color]
impossible is nothing
[b]impossible is nothing[/b] Don’t know how much it’s applicable for adidas but for sure it’s applicable for CAT. So I ll not be surprised if we get a similar paper as predicted by srikant. Though I don’t think there is anything new about the pattern. Isn’t this the pattern we are very familiar with in our school days and up to some extend in college also, yes its new for CAT.... I do agree that such a thing might come just to make time management tougher. [/b]