State has got only one centre this year, in Ahmedabad.
The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011, a gateway to prestigious B-schools including the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) of the country, will kick start from Saturday.
The test will continue till November 20. Ahmedabad centre alone accounts for around 6,700 registrations for the online examination.
CAT coaching institutes in the city believe that most of the students will appear for the exam only after Diwali. In the first few days, professionals are more likely to take the test, they believe.
In India, around 2.05 lakh candidates have registered for CAT. This year, Gujarat has seen a slight dip in the total number of students registering for CAT- 2011.
Figures released by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), which is managing the CAT this year, suggest that registration from Gujarat is among the lowest.
The NCR region- Gurgaon, Noida, Gaziabad and Greater Noida accounted for 24% of the registration. 48,000 registrations were from this region. Maharashtra centres like Bombay and Pune had 30,000 registrations which formed 15% of the total registration.
For Banglore it was 18,000 registrations which accounted for 9% of the total registrations, said Prof Janakiraman Moorthy, convener for CAT-2011 from IIMC.
Last year, there were around 7000 registrations for CAT from Gujarat. Experts say the dip in registrations may be because of reduction in number of centres in the state from three last year to one this year. They said as Ahmedabad is the only centre in Gujarat, students from south Gujarat may have opted to appear for the test from Mumbai centres while students in Dahod may have chosen to take up centres in Madhya Pradesh.
This year, the IIMs have reduced the number of sections in CAT.
Earlier, the CAT had three sections - verbal ability, quantitative ability and analytical reasoning and data interpretation. Now it has only two sections. The first has quantitative ability & data interpretation while the second one has verbal ability and logical reasoning.
Students will get 70 minutes to answer each section which will have 30 questions.
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