With slightly over 240,000 applicants taking this year’s CAT scheduled between November 28 and December 7, the favorite date amongst CAT aspirants seems to be December 6. In a poll conducted by PaGaLGuy.com, an MBA resources website, 24% of the 7,635 voters preferred to take the test on December 6, the first Sunday of December.
Next to follow were December 5 and 7 with 12 per cent votes each, November 29 with 11 per cent votes among others. Point to be noticed here is that, November 28, the first day of the exam, got only 6 per cent (458) votes.
With the CAT becoming a computer-based test this year, all the coaching institutes for the exam have been conducting mock tests online. However, almost 55 per cent of the voters who took the poll said they were not satisfied with their coaching institute’s handling of mock CAT-CBTs. Another survey on the amount the MBA aspirants would spend to get into their dream business schools revealed that 31 per cent of 3,969 voters choose to spend between Rs 3000 and Rs 8000 on B-school admission forms while 13 per cent is ready to do whatever it takes to get into the most coveted B-school.
