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2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, ,  Most important entrance exam for B-school aspirants in the country.  Tests quantitative ability and verbal-based reasoning ability.  Questions are multiple choice questions  Exam is conducted online  It is conducted over a 20-day window usually in Oct – Nov every year  Results are out in Jan  Scores are ‘normalized’ for levels of difficulty and presented in the percentile format  This is the entrance exam for all the IIMs, and more than 85 of the top 100 colleges in India  This is the only entrance exam for the IIMs and some of the other colleges CAT Key Features

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , About the CAT What does the exam comprise? What are the key colleges? How should you prepare

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , CAT Quant Verbal 30 questions for 70 minutes 30 questions for 70 minutes You will get no break between the first and second sessions

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2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , – 11 Questions ~2 Questions from each component CAT Verbal Section

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , Timeline for CAT For college students, 3 rd year is a good time to prepare. Final year is when one should apply to colleges JulyAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov Practice exams Preparation JanFebMarAprMayJun CAT ResultsInterviews College start Final resultsCall letters

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , About the CAT What does the exam comprise? What are the key colleges? How should you prepare

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, ,  More than 100 colleges accept the CAT scores for their PGDM admissions  Around 40 of the top 50 colleges in India go with CAT  IIMS – 13 IIMs are there now  FMS, SP Jain, Bajaj, NITIE  All the IITs  NIT DOMs  In Tamilnadu, IIM Trichy, Great Lakes, IFMR, BIM, and LIBA select through CAT CAT – Key Colleges that select through CAT

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , Which are the best colleges in India? RankingCollege NameEntrance Exam 1IIM AhmedabadCAT 2IIM BangaloreCAT 3IIM KolkattaCAT 4XLRI JamshedpurXAT 5IIM LucknowCAT 6FMS DelhiCAT 7IIM KozhikodeCAT 8IIM IndoreCAT 9IIFT DelhiIIFT Exam 10SP JainCAT

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , Which are the best colleges in India? Source: Pagalguy Rankings RankingCollege NameEntrance Exam 11JBIMS MumbaiCAT 12ISB HyderabadGMAT 13MDI GurgaonCAT 14NITIE (Mumbai)CAT 15SJMSOM IIT BombayCAT 15TISS BombayTISS entrance test 17IIM ShillongCAT 17NMIMSNMAT 17SIBM PuneSNAP 20DOMs, IIT DelhiCAT

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , Tier I Tier II Tier III KJ Somaiyya, Welingker, Goa Institute of Management, XIME, LIBA, Other Symbioses, BIM, etc. ISB, IIMs - Trichy, Ranchi, Rohtak, Raipur, Udaipur, IFMR, Kashipur, XIMB, Symbiosis SIBM, SCMHRD, NMIMS, IMT, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, TISS, TAPMI, NITIE, IIT Kharagpur, Great Lakes Based on CAT: IIMs A, B, C, L, I, K, FMS, SPJain, MDI, Bajaj, IIFT, Based on XAT: XLRI Colleges broadly classified under three tiers

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , What other exam should a student write?  XAT is for Xavier institutions – XLRI Jamshedpur, XIM Bhubaneshwar, XIME Bangalore, Goa Institute of Management, LIBA, etc  LIBA selects based on CAT also  SNAP is for Symbiosis group of colleges – SIBM, SCMHRD, etc  IIFT is for IIFT – Indian Institute of Foreign Trade  NMAT is for NMIMS group colleges  Apart from this we have IRMA, CMAT, etc.  Of these, NMAT is online, everything else is paper-based

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , How to prepare for the CAT? Phase III – Take mock CATs: Take a series of mock CATs to prepare for the real deal. Ideally you should take 20+ mock CATs Phase II – Cover the entire ground: Go topic by topic, cover all the different type of questions. Spend time on Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning Phase I – Read and Solve: For the first few months, focus on building reading ability and on getting a certain comfort level with math. Every week, read something for 3-4 hrs, practice some topic for 3-4 hrs.

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , IIM - CAT course outline We train for all 3 components (2 sections) Quant's – % of the classes. Concept heavy DI & LR – % of classes Verbal – 25% of classes 10 CCTs in classroom20 mock CATs onlinePractice tests provided online and with study materialAssistance for Personal Interviews also

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , Almost everyone who teaches at 2IIM is a graduate from a top 15 college from India. Either from one of the IIMs or from NITIE/FMS These guys have scored 99 th percentile, finished MBA and then come to teach All critical topics covered by Rajesh Balasubramanian, 100 th percentile scorer in CAT 2011 and CAT Why do these guys teach for us? This is simple. Most of them were our students. Great faculty team Any batch has less than 30 students. So, individual attention is guaranteed Small Classrooms Two simple reasons Why 2IIM?

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , IIM CAT course details Courses beginning at Anna Nagar and Velachery Course Duration: Till Aug 2014 Course Fee: Rs. 22,900 (including service taxes) Rs off for students registering on or before Oct 6 th Rs off per student for groups of 4 or more for the CAT Rs off for students registering on or before Oct 6 th Rs off per student for groups of 4 or more for the CAT

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , Anna Nagar Timings: Sat: 6:30 to 8:30 pm & Sun: 9 to 11 am Start date: October 19 th Ph: Velachery Timings: Sun 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm Start date: October 20 th Ph: Mylapore Timings: Sat & Sun: 6:30-8:30 am Ph: IIM CAT course details

2IIM Ascent Education – Classes for CAT, GMAT, GRE and TANCET, , IIM Details Product Head: Mr. Rajesh Balasuramanian Contact : /