CAT might be a less crowded affair this year
Registrations for CAT 2013 have seen a 9.3 per cent drop. The total number of applicants stood at 1.94 lakh this year, compared with 2.14 lakh last year, Economic Times reported. This would mean that a prospective IIM candidate would have fewer number of people to compete against, for a seat in one of the 13 IIMs. This, in comparison, to 2010, where the competition ratio was 1:101, which was down from 1:125 in 2009.CAT, which is the common test for admission to the IIMs and several other non-IIM business schools, has a ratio of 1:20, wherein almost 1.2 lakh candidates have applied for 10,000 seats. It is a consolidated pool and the ratio of the number of applicants to total seats is also good.
Registrations for CAT 2013 have seen a 9.3 per cent drop. The total number of applicants stood at 1.94 lakh this year, compared with 2.14 lakh last year, Economic Times reported. This would mean that a prospective IIM candidate would have fewer number of people to compete against, for a seat in one of the 13 IIMs. This, in comparison, to 2010, where the competition ratio was 1:101, which was down from 1:125 in 2009.CAT, which is the common test for admission to the IIMs and several other non-IIM business schools, has a ratio of 1:20, wherein almost 1.2 lakh candidates have applied for 10,000 seats. It is a consolidated pool and the ratio of the number of applicants to total seats is also good.
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