The second edition of Common Admission Test 2010 began on Wednesday, October 27th 2010. CAT - a gateway to prestigious IIMs and other top B-Schools of India. Though last year the test was considered as a flop show due to technical glitches, this year measures have been adopted to make CAT2010 glitch free.
Number of registrations: 2.42 lakh students had registered for the test in 2009 but in CAT2010 the number of registrations stands at 2.04 lakh. The total voucher sale was 2.06 lakhs.
Educational/Professional background of test takers: Engineers form the largest pool of CAT 2010 registrants (1.22 lakh). Then comes commerce students (30,248). Third position goes to BBA graduates with 21,809 aspirants. About 2421 applicants (2%) are from the biology stream.
Sex ratio: 74 per cent are males; 26 per cent are females.
Work experience of registered candidates: About 78 per cent of the people who have applied have less than one year work experience and a majority of them are fresh graduates.
Category of students:81% candidates are of General category. The OBC category candidates are 11%, SC category account for 6 percent and ST category 2 percent.
Test infrastructure: Over 9000 computers have been used to conduct CAT 2010. There are 240 labs in 78 test centers in 33 cities across the country.
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