CAT Syllabus 2024: The Common Admission Test (CAT) is a national level management admission test conducted by IIM on the rotation basis. CAT 2024 Exam will be held on 24 November for the academic session 2025-26.
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Candidates who have applied for CAT need to check the complete CAT Syllabus 2024. CAT exam is the most difficult management entrance exam, it is not so easy to score the highest percentile in this exam.
The CAT syllabus has no boundaries, any question can be asked from the 3 sections and its sub-sections. The IIM officials will not publish the official syllabus for the CAT exam. On the basis of previous year papers, experts have defined the topics from which questions will be asked.
So here we have provided you with the complete CAT Topic-wise Syllabus so that you can perform well in the exam by achieving the highest percentile.
CAT Syllabus 2024
| Section | Syllabus | No of Questions | |
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| MCQ | Non-MCQ | ||
| Quantitative Ability |
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24 -27 | Approx 7 -10 |
| Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension |
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24 | 10 |
| Date Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | Date Interpretation | 12 | 4 |
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| Logical Reasoning | 12 | 4 | |
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CAT 2024 Exam Pattern
Even if you have all the exam study material, but you are unaware about the exam syllabus & CAT Test Pattern, it will be difficult to proceed with preparation. The Exam Pattern will guide you about the marks distribution, question distribution in each section, marking scheme, mode of examination etc.
| Mode of Examination | Online (Computer-based) | |||
| Paper Language | English | |||
| Question Types | Both Multiple Choice Questions & Non-MCQs | |||
| Time Duration | 3 hours | |||
| Total Questions | 100 | |||
| Total Marks | 300 | |||
| Paper Pattern | ||||
| Sections | No of
Questions |
Marks per Question | Total Marks | |
| Section-1 | Verbal Ability | 10 | 3 | 102 |
| Reading Comprehension | 24 | |||
| Section-2 | Data Interpretation | 16 | 96 | |
| Logical Reasoning | 16 | |||
| Section-3 | Quantitative Ability | 34 | 102 | |
| Marking Scheme | 1 mark will be deduced for each wrong answer. | |||
We recommend you not to waste your time. Follow the exam syllabus and make an exam strategy for better preparation. How much you study is not important, how smartly you study is more important. So after completing the whole syllabus, check the CAT Previous Year Papers so that you can get exact idea about the original question papers and topics and you can also analyse your preparation for CAT 2024.
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CAT Syllabus 2024: iimcat.ac.in
