Registrations for the Common Admission Test (CAT), 2011, the Gateway to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), were marginally up at 2.05 lakh compared with 2.04 lakh in 2010.The cities in which the highest number of candidates are scheduled to take the Online Test between October 22, 2011 and November 18, 2011 are New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune, a statement issued by Prometric, which is to conduct the exam.

The CAT 2011 voucher sales ended on October 1, and about 2.06 lakh vouchers were sold. The Registration window ended on October 4 with approximately 2.05 lakh registered aspirants.

“Of these, 73% are Male and 27% are Female candidates. This marginally exceeds last year’s registrations of 2.04 lakh,” said a statement from Promteric, the US-based testing agency that has been conducting the computer-based CAT for two years now.
The test this year will have Two Sections instead of three earlier and students will have 70 minutes to answer each of them.

Prometric has said the next step for them after the registration is to prepare and check all testing locations to ensure candidates take the exam without difficulties."The candidates should also familiarise themselves with the test day procedures by viewing the video that is available from the CAT website," the statement said quoting managing director of Prometric India Soumitra Roy.