Monday, June 16, 2008

All you need to know about CAT

Common Admission Test, C.A.T is a pen and paper test unlike G.M.A.T and G.R.E that are Computer Adaptive Test. "Change is the only Constant of life" same is the case in C.A.T examination still some pattern is to be followed to appear for the unseen and unheard C.A.T exam that may appear before you on third Sunday of November. So while preparing for C.A.T various things to be kept in mind are:
  • C.A.T is for testing a test takers aptitude its not knowledge.
  • You need to think differently and develop your own aptitude and pattern for attempting the question paper.
  • You need to be quick and accurate with your results.
  • Stress on developing vocab but work still harder with your reading skills.
  • C.A.T is important but not the only criteria for getting admission in a good B-school.
C.A.T is not as difficult to crack as it may appear to some neither it is easy. All you need for cracking C.A.T are your skills that can be developed only with time not overnight.

For clearing C.A.T following sections are to be stressed upon:

Aptitude:Quantitative Aptitude is the key not formula based questions because formula based questions consume more time in calculation and are not much relevant so you can skip one or two appearing in the question paper.

Thinking Differently:It is required for appearing the critical reasoning questions that appear in the test paper.

Quick & Accurate:If you have to attempt data integration part of the exam then you need to be fast and accurate. This is the part on which most student spend their maximum time but it is not always necessary to find the exact results because most of the time a range of result helps you in picking the appropriate option, so act wisely while attempting this part.

Vocab & Reading:Those days are gone when direct questions of antonym and synonym were asked in the exam. Recent test pattern shows that more stress has to be given on the reading skills as reading comprehension part shares the major part in the pie of English, also you can develop your vocab by reading not directly cramming the whole dictionary.

Group Discussion & Personal Interview:It is not only C.A.T the you need to focus on also the G.D & P.I section which most people start preparing after the C.A.T exam. For its preparation you not only need to be good in Spoken English but also need knowledge of everything happening around you. Read newspaper daily and involve your self in improving your G.K because being a manager you need to understand everything around to to search for new prospects.

Test other then C.A.T which may be necessary:
S.N.A.P, X.A.T, M.A.T, J.M.A.T
For more information keep reading and visit www.catiim.in

Sunday, June 15, 2008

All you need to know about GMAT

Graduate Management Admission Test, G.M.A.T. is a Computer Adaptive Test recognized as the most effective test available by various schools for management programs. It plays a critical role in the admission process for around 4000 management programs at 1800 different schools around the globe.

G.M.A.T. was initially designed by the business schools so as to select the students who could succeed in in the challenging curriculum is now run by G.M.A.C.

Applicants of G.M.A.T exam are from different professional backgrounds & experience and provides a common platform for them. Applicant can take exam in 94 countries, at any time of year, six days a week but the timings are set by the test center depending on the regional needs.

G.M.AT. Test Format
TEST SECTION
No. OF
QUESTIONS

TIMING


Analytical Writing Assessment





Analysis of an issue
1 Topic
30 Minutes
Analysis of an argument
1 Topic
30 Minutes
10 Minute Break(Optional)






Quantitative Section
37 Questions
75 Minutes
Problem Solving





Data Sufficiency





10 Minute Break(Optional)














Verbal Section
41 Questions
75 Minutes
Reading Comprehension





Critical Reasoning





Sentence Correction







SCORES
Test takers generally receive four different scores:
  • Verbal
  • Quantitative
  • Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA), and
  • Total
The range of verbal & quantitative scores is 0-60 but generally test taker score 9-44 for verbal section and 7-50 for quantitative section.
Total score ranges from 200-800 and general score is 400-600.

Analytical Writing Assessment score ranges from 0-6 in half point interval and is considered as separate score and has no effect of verbal, quantitative & total scores on it.

Unofficial scores of verbal, quantitative sections along with total score can be obtained immediately after the test .

Official score are available to test taker and schools approximately three weeks after the test.

For more information either leave comments.
or
visit following links:
www.mba.com
www.gmac.com

Friday, June 13, 2008

All you need to know about GRE - General Exam

Graduate Record Examinations, G.R.E. is a Computer Adaptive Test which is needed by most US graduate schools, except business related schools. This exam is conducted daily across the world so the possibility of students remembering and sharing test questions with friends increases. G.R.E. focuses a lot on vocabulary so students have to mug up dictionaries while preparing for the exam. Education Testing Service, E.T.S. which conducts this exam has been plagued with lots of worries and concerns for past few years.

GENERAL TEST
General Test of G.R.E. measures the skills which are obtained by students over a long period of time and are not related to any specific field and include under given sections.
  • Verbal reasoning
  • Quantitative reasoning
  • Critical thinking and analytical writing

COMPUTER ADAPTIVE TESTING
In C.A.T. multiple choice questions appear on the computer screen and test taker has to answer each question before proceeding to the next one. Initially each test taker is given a question of "average difficulty level" and then the level of subsequent question increases or decreases with the correctly or incorrectly answered previous question.

Scales of Scores and Percentile

Scaled score Verbal Reasoning % Quantitative Reasoning %
800 99 94
780 99 90
760 99 86
740 99 82
720 98 77
700 97 72
680 96 68
660 94 63
640 91 58
620 89 53
600 85 49
580 81 44
560 76 40
540 71 35
520 65 31
500 60 28
480 55 24
460 49 21
440 43 18
420 37 15
400 31 13
380 26 11
360 21 9
340 15 7
320 10 5
300 6 4
280 3 3
260 1 2
240 1 1
220 0 1
200 0 0
mean 465 584

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Analytical Writing score Writing %
6 96
5.5 88
5 73
4.5 54
4 33
3.5 18
3 7
2.5 2
2 1
1.5 0
1 0
0.5 0
mean 4.1

SUBJECT TEST
In addition to general test there are eight subject tests which test the knowledge of applicants in areas like Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Literature in English, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology.

For more information on G.R.E. log on to official website of E.T.S www.ets.org
& for www.gre.org