What to expect in ONLINE CAT
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CAT is always famous for its surprise elements,it can be ina change in question pattern or change in weightage for different section or sometimes the it can be the change in the exam mode itself.Well,this year its something like this.The era of HB pencils and OMR sheets are gone.Now its online CAT.
CAT 2009 is going to be a computer based test like GRE,GMAT. IIMs have confirmed about it. The test will be conducted in a window of about ten days sometime at the end of the calendar year, 2009. Instead of a single exam paper for all, the online test will have several different papers of the same level of difficulty.
There are a lot of questions pouring in about online CAT. What will be the difficulty level? How easy or tough it will be to take the Computer Based Test? How can we do RC and DI in online CAT? But one thing should be bear in mind. Till the information brochure or any guidelines hasn’t been released by IIMs nothing is certain. So please keep a blank mind and study hard and always remember that everyone is going to get the same pattern and same difficulty level and its an level ground.

Some surprise elements to be expected in Computer Based CAT.
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1. A computer based test will require some amount of practice done on a range of Computer Based mock-tests. People who are used to the paper based test need not panic though. The skills will be useful now as well, but aspirants will require some acclimatization.

2. Those used to underlining the passages in RC, will suffer, as you wont be able to do so now. Now, you will have to note the important points/words down on a piece of paper given to you. It will require some practice though. So its very important to do as many online RCs so that you get over the habit of marking or underlining the important words.

3. Similarly with DI/DS, you will not be able to mark anything in the data/charts etc given. So start practicing the online way now and prepare for CAT 2009.But I surely suspect the new DI pattern will be having questions like number puzzles or game type questions.

4. There could be an essay as well, following GRE pattern and XAT.So start horning your essay writing skills now. Concentrate on current affairs as well, you never know.

So its high time to start reading online editions of newspapers and other articles,so that you get the familiar feeling of reading online articles.
More information about online CAT and guidelines for belling the new format of the CAT will be featured in coming days. So all the best for all the CAT aspirants.





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