CAT Eligibility Changed

[virendra]

The eligibility for taking CAT has changed to a minimum of 50% in graduation from just a pass class. All six IIMs have taken the collective decision to fix the academic eligibility to take the Common Admission Test at 50 % in the Bachelor's exam.

For this ChecK TOI (April 21st 2006) Page no. 11

regards,
Viru

[Manish Salian]

Hi,

Yes, that is true! Now, you need to do well in both CAT as well as your graduation - that would be a tight rope walk!

The good news is that this rule is going to be implemented from CAT 2007! So present students need not bother much - simply concentrate on your preparations!

Also, these is proposal to conduct CAT in two phases (similar to what IIT-JEE used to be) - CAT Prelims and CAT finals. All applicants would first take CAT prelims. Among these 60,000 students would be shortlisted for CAT finals! Interesting things ahead. But for CAT 2007.

Regards,

Manish