CAT Answer Key 2024 Updates: Where to check IIM CAT response sheet on Dec 3

Karnataka Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa on Thursday announced that the state government has ordered to increase the incentive funds for SC, and ST Candidates studying in national institutes. Earlier the fund was Rs 1 lakh which is now proposed to be Rs 2 lakh.

The change will implemented for students studying in national institutes like IIT/IIM/IISC/NIT. This will lead to higher educational achievements of students from scheduled communities, he said in an official release.

Twenty-year-old Rachit Dhanania had scored 99.99 percentile in CAT 2023, result of which was released on December 21, 2023. A student of Economics, Dhanania was excited to take the first step towards his entrepreneurial dream. Since his teenage years, the Kolkata boy wanted to start something of his own.

READ: CAT 2023 Topper: Kolkata boy scores 99.99 percentile, aims to be an entrepreneur

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have seen a record number of women students in their 2024-26 batch. The percentage of women enrolments in this session ranged between 25 per cent and 75 per cent. While the number is most in newer institutes, there is a minor increase in women representation — ranging between 25 and 40 per cent — in the older IIMs.

The poor gender balance, especially in management and engineering institutes, has been an issue for years. Before 2017, the representation of women students in MBA programmes was below 11 per cent. Many IIMs introduced supernumerary seats in the last decade to encourage their participation. However, women enrolment in the top-ranked IIM-Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta remain modest, probably because these B-schools want to keep admission strictly “on the basis of merit”.

Step 1: Visit the official website — iimcat.ac.in

Step 2: Go to the candidate login portal

Step 3: Click on the ‘answer key challenge’ link

Step 4: Enter user id and password

Step 5: Select the question to raise an objection

Step 6: Upload the supporting documents

Step 7: Pay the required fees and then click on the submit button

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) are one of the country’s premier management institutions known for their teaching, research and interaction with industries. These IIMs provide various flagship and executive courses to the shortlisted candidates who crack the Common Admission Test (CAT).

Apart from these courses, these IIMs have also started some certificate or short-duration courses for experienced candidates having requisite educational qualifications along with working experience. For the academic session 2025, we have compiled some of the week-long courses, and demand more than one lakh from the candidates.

For instance, a course titled ‘Understanding Bhagavad Gita: A Journey Towards Leadership Excellence’ is offered by IIM Ahmedabad (IIM-A). The course starts on January 27 and will end on January 30.

Check out the list of courses here

Experts analysed that the examination was easier as compared to the last two years’ examination. Further, they expect that the exam can have a higher cut-off.

In the reading comprehension (RC) sections, there were five long comprehensions. According to Sumit Singh Gandhi, CEO and Founder of CATKing, two RCs were the ‘odd ones out’ while the rest three were not very tough or easy. The quantitative ability had 14-15 questions, which were direct formula application questions and the exam consisted of various questions from speed distance and time, ratio, profit and loss, probability, arithmetic, algebra, series questions and geometry.

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Of the 2.93 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam, 1.07 lakh were female candidates, 1.86 lakh were male candidates and five were transgender candidates.

“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,” an official statement said while explaining the CAT normalisation process.

“The Normalisation process shall adjust for location and scale differences of score distributions across different forms. After normalisation across different forms, the scores shall be further normalised across different sections. The Scaled Scores obtained by this process shall be converted into percentiles for purposes of shortlisting,” it added.