CAT 2017: Over 2.3 lakh candidates to sit for India's biggest MBA entrance test on Nov 26

A total of 2,31,067 candidates are expected to appear in India's biggest MBA entrance test , the Common Admission Test conducted by the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L) on November 26.

"By and large all preparations have been made for the test. We wish all the candidates best of luck for the test," said Prof Neeraj Dwivedi of IIM(L), the convener of the examination.

"The test, which will be held in two sessions of 180 minutes each, will have three sections. Section I will have verbal ability and reading comprehension; section II will be data interpretation and logical reasoning and section III will deal with quantitative ability," Prof Dwivedi said.

Some questions in each section may not be of multiple choice type and candidates will have to type direct answers online.

"We will also allow the use



of the basic onscreen calculator for computation. Candidates will be allotted exactly 60 minutes for answering questions in each section and they cannot switch from one section to another while answering questions in a section," the convener said.

CAT 2017 will be conducted in centres spread across approximately 140 cities.

This year the number of women candidates registered for CAT-2017 has increased this year by 1.16% over last year's figure. Against total applicants of 231,067, this year 78,009 women candidates will take the examination. Last year 76,000 women had appeared in the exam. The number of male candidates this year is 153,027.

This year the number of transgender candidates also increased to 31 from 22 last year, said Prof Dwivedi. The number of physically challenged applicants is 910 against last year's 921.