 Common Admission Test (CAT) for the IIMs, held on November 16, 2008, has managed to fox even the CAT experts!
How else does one explain significant differences amongst the "answer keys" to CAT 08 that have been published by some of India's leading CAT test prep companies like IMS - Mumbai, TIME - Hyderabad, Career Launcher – Delhi and PT Education – Indore. At the time of publishing this article (November 21, 2008 at 8:00 AM), an analysis by MBAUniverse.com of answer keys published by four major test prep companies have shown that answers to as many as nine questions don't match. The questions as per CAT test series number 111 are: 39, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 86 and 90.
Given that just a few wrong answers can impact CAT percentile drastically, MBA aspirants are in a big dilemma over this issue.
MBAUniverse.com has approached all the four institutions for their clarifications on this matter.
Further MBAUniverse.com has also written to IIM Bangalore, which was the nodal coordination center, to provide clarity by publishing the official answers to the questions. According to the official website of CAT www.CATIIM.in, the CAT results will be declared only on January 9, 2009. That would mean that uncertainty prevails for more than six weeks. The responses are awaited.
The CAT '08 questions of which answer keys are not matching are below:
CAT Series Question paper 111
|
Q No.
|
IMS Learning
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T.I.M.E.
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Career Launcher
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PT Education
|
|
39
|
4 (*)
|
1&4
|
1&4
|
4
|
|
57
|
4
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
|
58
|
5
|
5
|
1
|
5
|
|
59
|
3
|
4
|
3
|
3
|
|
60
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
4
|
|
61
|
5
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
|
64
|
5
|
4
|
4
|
2
|
|
86
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
|
90
|
5
|
5
|
5
|
2
|
... |
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