It is official: CAT 2010 will be held on 20 days between October 27 and November 23, 2010. The IIMs will release the CAT advertisement in newspapers on the last Sunday of August and the registration and form sales process will begin three days after that.

“There will be logical breaks in between the exam such as those for Diwali,” CAT 2010 Convenor Prof Himanshu Rai told PaGaLGuY.com. According to the government calendar for 2010, the period between October 27 and November 23 has three gazetted and three restricted holidays.

The test will be held in the same 32 cities as it was in 2009, but the number of test centers will be reduced, he added.

The story was first broken on MBAUniverse.com.