MUMBAI: Candidates taking the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2021 on Sunday, for admissions to the premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) had fewer questions to crack as compared to the previous year.
While last year the number of questions were brought down to 76 and the time duration was two hours instead of three, this year, only 66 questions had to be attempted. The changes were introduced last year on account of the pandemic. Most aspirants found the verbal section, which had the maximum questions, to be the toughest.
“Accounting for the slight difference in difficulty across the three slots, a score of 82-85 should fetch a 98 percentile. A score of approximately 70 would get a 95 percentile this year,” programme director at a leading coaching Institute, Hemang Panchmatia estimated.
IIM-Ahmedabad conducted CAT 2021. More than two lakh candidates had registered for the test this year.
