CAT 2022 Exam Analysis: IIM CAT 2022 exam is being held in three slots today. After the exam concludes, the CAT 2022 exam analysis will be available for each slot here. Check CAT paper review.
CAT 2022 Exam Analysis: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore is conducting the Common Admissions Test (CAT) 2022 exam today, November 27. As per the schedule, the CAT exam is being held in three shifts – Morning (8:30 – 10:30 am), Afternoon (12:30 – 2:30 pm) and Evening (4:30 – 6:30 pm).
The MBA entrance exam slot 1 ends at 10.30 am, and the CAT 2022 exam analysis has been provided here based on candidate’s experience and coaching institutes. The CAT exam analysis will include the difficulty level of the sections, weightage of the topics, test pattern, number of good attempts and section CAT cut-offs. Candidates can check the detailed CAT slot-wise exam analysis here.
CAT 2022 Exam Analysis – Slot 1
As per media reports, one of the candidates who appeared for CAT 2022 informed that the overall CAT paper for slot 1 was moderate. Quantitative Aptitude (QA) was difficult and most questions were from logical reasoning. However, as per other aspirants, the QA section was easy for. DILR was confusing. The overall CAT slot 1 paper was easy.
A candidate taking the CAT 2022 exam from a centre in Patna said that the question paper followed a different pattern from the mock tests. There were no questions from the bar graph and pie chart. Three questions were asked from Geometry and in VARC, there were five paragraphs and three summary questions.
The 1st slot of the CAT 2022 exam ended at 10:30 am. Candidates are coming out of the CAT test centre. The CAT question paper pattern is the same to that of CAT last year’s paper with 66 questions and three sections namely VARC, DILR and QA. Each question carries 3 marks and a negative marking of -1 will be applicable for every incorrect answer.
CAT 2022 Exam Pattern
As per the recent updates and notification released, this year, there is no announcement regarding changes in the CAT paper pattern, so we expect a total of 66 questions divided into 3 sections. There will be 24, 20, and 22 questions in VARC, DILR, and QA respectively. The duration of CAT 2022 will be 120 minutes and the sectional time-limit will be 40 minutes. Check the table below for more details –
CAT Paper Pattern
|
Sections |
Number of questions |
Allotted time |
|
Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation (LRDI) |
20 |
40 minutes |
|
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC) |
22 |
40 minutes |
|
Quantitative Aptitude (QA) |
24 |
40 minutes |
|
Total |
66 |
120 minutes |
CAT Score vs Percentile
As the CAT 2022 exam is being conducted in different sessions, the authorities will follow a normalisation process to calculate the result. As per an official statement, “In order to ensure fairness and equity in comparison of performances of candidates across different test sessions, the scores of candidates shall be subjected to a process of Normalisation.”
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