New Delhi: If you crack it, you're the cat's whiskers.
But to pass the CAT exam means working 25 hours a day, 8 days a week.
The Common Admission Test is a test that students are required to clear to get admission in the top business schools of India.
Scheduled for November 20, 2005 the CAT exam is giving students nightmares. However experts assure that cracking the exam is not as tough as it seems.
They say it takes mere average intelligence and sincere revision.
The questions asked in CAT exam are like any other aptitude test - data interpretation, verbal ability, reasoning, reading, comprehension and problem solving.
The exam, feel experts, is not a measure of a student?s academic capability but a test of how students react under pressure - the idea being that if a mere exam intimidates students, then they would certainly be unsuitable candidates for a management firm.
This might prompt people to question the mass hype surrounding B-school entrance tests.
However experts say that the reason for the massive buildup surrounding CAT is not hard to understand.
Last year an IIM Bangalore student got a starting annual salary of Rs 87 lakh.
The astronomical salaries are reason enough for parents to absolve their CAT aspirant children of all responsibilities so they can concentrate on aceing the exam.
However with nearly 2 lakh students across India battling it out for the 60,000 management seats - out of which only 6000 account for the top B-schools in the country - the competition is nothing short of grueling.
Only one in 50 aspirants make it to the coveted Indian Institute of Management.
Academicians feel there there's no fixed formula to crack the CAT. However, a combination of strategy, planning and implementation should help the student score well.
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