CAT 2022 Apply Now

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• CAT 2022 Common Admission Test
• (Overview, highlights, whats new, important
  dates, eligibility criteria, registration and
  application form)
• CAT or Common Admission Test is a computer-based
  standardized test for admission to graduate
  management programs. CAT is conducted once a year
  (usually in November/December). It is a
  national-level entrance exam famously known as
  Indias largest entrance exam for admission to
  management courses. CAT consists of three
  sections i.e. Verbal Ability and Reading
  Comprehensions, Data Interpretation and Logical
  Reasoning, and Qualitative Ability. IIM (Indian
  Institute of Management) started this exam and
  use the score of the test for selecting the
  students for business management courses (MBA or
  PGDM).
• CAT is conducted every year by one of the IIMs
  based on a policy of rotation for admission to
  20 IIMs and other Top-B schools in the country.
  As CAT is known as the largest entrance exam for
  admission to management programs every year more
  than around 2 Lakh students register for this
  exam. IIM (Indian Institute of Management) will
  start the registration for CAT 2022 on August 3,
  2022.
• This year 2022 CAT is expected to be held on the
  last Sunday of November 2022. It will be held on
  27 November 2022. This year 2022 out of 20 IIMs,
  IIM Bangalore is expected to conduct CAT 2022.
• CAT 2022 Highlights
• Name of the test CAT or Common Admission Test
  2022
• Administered by Indian Institute of Management
  (IIM)
• Mode of Test CBT (Online)
• Medium of Test English
• Duration of Test 2 hour
• Test Offered Once a year
• Number of slots 3
• Total Mars 198
• Type of questions MCQs and TITA (Non-MCQs)
• Knowledge/skill tested Qualitative ability,
  verbal ability and reading comprehension, data
  interpretation and logical reasoning
• Purpose Admission to Post-graduate management
  programs.

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• Exam Level National
• Mode of counseling Online
• CAT 2022 conducting body Indian Institute of
  Management, Bangalore (IIMB)- Expected
• Official website iimcat.ac.in
• To qualify for the CAT exam and admission to IIMs
  and other prestigious colleges is a dream of
  many aspirants. This is the reason CAT or common
  admission test is known as the largest entrance
  exam in India for MBA aspirants. In order to
  fill CAT 2022 application form, the candidates
  have to pay the CAT exam registration fee of INR
  2200 for the general and unreserved categories
  and INR 1100 for SC/ST/OBC and other reserved
  categories.
• CAT 2022 Whats New
• CAT 2022 is expected to be conducted by the
  Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
• CAT 2022 exam mode will be online CBT (Computer
  Based Test).
• Sections in CAT 2022 exam are verbal ability and
  reading
• comprehension, data interpretation and logical
  reasoning, and qualitative ability.
• CAT 2022 registration process will be online
  mode.
• CAT 2022 exam date is expected to be November 27
  or 28, 2022, Sunday (Tentative).
• CAT 2022 exam is to be conducted in 3 sessions
  that is morning,
• afternoon, and evening on the same day.
• CAT 2022 exam will be held around 159 cities in
  the country (subject to change).
• The application fee for CAT 2022 is INR 2,200 for
  the general category
• and INR 1,100 for the reserved category.
• CAT 2022 result is expected in the first week of
  2023.
• CAT 2022 score is valid for December 31, 2023.

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Year of CAT exam Name of the Conduction Body
2022 IIM Bangalore - Expected
2021 IIM Ahmedabad (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad)
2020 IIM Indore (Indian Institute of Management, Indore)
2019 IIM Khozikode (Indian Institute of Management, Khozikode)
2018 IIM Calcutta (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)
2017 IIM Lucknow (Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow)
2016 IIM Bangalore (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore)
2015 IIM Ahmedabad (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad)
2014 IIM Indore (Indian Institute of Management, Indore)
2013 IIM Indore (Indian Institute of Management, Indore)
2012 IIM Khozikode (Indian Institute of Management, Khozikode)
List of IIMs accepting CAT score IIM Ahmedabad,
IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, IIM
Shillong, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Indore,
IIM Sambalpur, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kashipur, IIM
Nagpur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Khozikode, IIM
Vishakhapatnam, IIM Raipur, IIM Rohtak, IIM
Amritsar, IIM Trichy, IIM Jammu. Other Top
B-colleges and institutions accepting CAT
score IMT (Information Management Technology),
FMS (Faculty of Management Studies), IMI
(International Management Institute), SPJIMR
(S.P. Jain Institute of Management and
Research), MDI (Management Development
Institute), IIT (Institute of Information
Technology), NITIE, GLIM, Amity University,
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Xavier University, BIMTECH and many more. CAT
2022 Important Dates
Events Dates
CAT 2022 Official notification Last week of July 2022
CAT 2022 Application form release date First week of August 2022
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Last date to apply for CAT 2022 Application form Second week of September 2022
Last date to submit the fees for the CAT 2022 Application Form Second week of September 2022
CAT 2022 Form Correction Window shall open Third week of September 2022
CAT 2022 Admit card release date Last week of October 2022
CAT 2022 Exam date Last Sunday of November 2022
CAT 2022 Answer keys release date First week of December 2022
CAT 2022 Result announcement date First week of January 2023

• CAT 2022 Eligibility Criteria
• Eligibility criteria are the most important
  factor for every student to apply for any
  examination. CAT eligibility criteria are
  released by the exam authority on the official
  website in PDF format. To apply for CAT or Common
  Admission Test 2022 candidates must check the
  eligibility criteria and ensure that they are
  eligible for the exam.
• To appear in CAT 2022 candidates should have one
  of the following
• Appearing in the final year of graduation in
  2022 or
• For general/OBC categories candidates, a graduate
  in any disciple with a minimum of 50 marks in
  bachelors degree or
• For reserved categories candidates, a graduate in
  any disciple with a
• minimum of 45 marks in bachelors degree.
• CAT eligibility for candidates who graduated
  before 2020 are
• For general/OBC categories
• Candidates must hold a bachelors degree with a
  minimum of 50 marks or equivalent CGPA.
• Candidates who have completed a professional
  degree (CA/CS/ICWA) with a minimum of 50 marks.
• For reserved categories
• Candidates need a minimum of 45 marks in
  graduation.

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• Candidates who have completed a professional
  degree (CA/CS/ICWA) with a minimum of 45 marks.
• CAT eligibility for candidates who graduated in
  2020-2021 are
• For the general/OBC category candidates need to
  enter promotional/pass for the last year if not
  awarded a percentage of marks in the last two
  years.
• For the reserved category, if candidates are not
  awarded marks in the
• 2020 and 2021 exam years, they do not need to
  fill the percentage of marks.
• CAT 2022 Age Limit
• There will be no age bar for applying to the CAT
  2022 test for any category of candidates.
• NOTE The final year students who are appearing
  in 2022 have to submit a certificate by the head
  of an institution that all the requirements of
  completing a bachelors degree are completed by
  them.
• CAT 2022 Registration
• When candidates check the eligibility criteria
  for CAT 2022 and know they are eligible for it,
  the next step will be the registration for the
  same. The registration for CAT 2022 is a
  completely online process and the application
  form can be filled out on the official website of
  the Common Admission Test. For registration in
  CAT 2022, candidates can visit the official
  website.
• CAT 2022 Application Form
• CAT 2022 application form notification will be
  released by the authority on the official
  website of the Common Admission Test. The
  application form is expected to be released in
  the last week of July 2022 and the application
  will be started in the first week of August
  2022.
• The steps to submit the application form includes
  the registration, application form filling,
  scanned document uploading, payment of the
  application, and final submission of the
  application form.
• Step by step process for filling CAT 2022
  application form is
• Visit the official website of the Common
  Admission Test i.e. iimcat.ac.in and click on
  the register button for CAT 2022 registration.

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• Carefully read the instruction and fill out the
  required valid details for the registration as
  per the given instruction
• After completing the registration process
  candidates will receive a user ID and password
  on their registered e-mail id.
• To fill in the application form candidate need to
  log in using the credentials that are received
  on their registered mail id.
• Now go to the application form and complete the
  remaining details. Candidates have to fill in
  their personal details (DOB, gender, category,
  nationality, details of parents, address of
  correspondence, emergency contact number),
  Academic details (class 10th-12th marks, graduate
  and post-graduate scores, professional degree or
  course details if any), etc.
• Candidates need to upload the scanned image of
  the following Recent
• photograph (size of the photograph should be less
  than or equal to 80KB, JPG/ JPEG format only),
  signature on white paper and black ink,
  NC-OBC/SC/ST certificate (PDF format), PwD
  certificate (if any).
• Candidates need to ensure that the information
  entered by them in their respective online
  application forms is correct and accurate.
• After the submission of scanned documents,
  candidates have to choose
• the payment gateway and pay the necessary
  application fee which varies for different
  category students.

Category Fee
General/ NC-OBC Category INR 2200
SC/ST INR 1100
PwD/DA INR 1100

• On completion of the payment process, candidates
  will receive an SMS on their registered mobile
  number and e-mail regarding the payment of the
  fee for CAT 2022.
• Candidates are allowed to take the hardcopy of
  the filled application form and fee receipt for
  future reference
• CAT 2022 Application Correction
• CAT 2022 application correction facility will
  start a few days prior to the last date of
  submission of the application form. Those
  candidates who have successfully registered
  through CAT 2022 Registration process will be
  allowed to use the correction facility. The
  correction window will open in the last week

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of September to the first week of November.
Candidates must fill out the application form
very carefully as the application form correction
facility is provided as the last chance of
rectification and that too on the selected
details only. For more updates about the CAT
exam keep visiting admissiondiscover.com