CAT 2017: Tough paper, rigid security

Candidates who took the Common Admission Test (CAT) on Sunday said that they found the exam challenging. While most of the students found questions on quantitative ability relatively easier, a lot of them struggled with the logical reasoning and data interpretation (LDRI) section.

The exam is divided into three sections — verbal ability and reading comprehension, data interpretation and logical reasoning, and quantitative ability. Experts said that with the quantitative questions being easier, the cut-offs for this year may go up.

This year, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) had made the security rules at exam centres more stringent with students not being allowed to wear even their footwear inside the examination hall. "Removing jewellery and jackets was fine but having to keep one's footwear outside is a bit too much," said one of the candidates.

This year, nearly 2.3 lakh students across the country appeared for the entrance exam to IIMs and top management institutes in the country.