DI most difficult and Verbal a surprise respite, say coaching institutes on releasing cut-offs

Faculty from IMS say, aThe increase in the number of questions in the Verbal Ability section would have caught many by surprise, but this was offset by the fact that the questions were easier as compared to the last two yearsa. According to Munira Lokhandwala, aAs the number of questions increased, ambiguous questions will play a smaller role in overall Verbal percentiles. Hence, students who are above average to good will do well in this section, despite the few ambiguous questions present.” Coaching institutes apart from TIME (cut-off predicted: 41-43) are at a consensus that a minimum score of 44 would be required to clear this yearas VA section. Career Launcher and IMS have released the range of cut-offs for the section as 44 and 46-49 respectively.

aQuantitative Ability proves to be on the difficult side again for an average student,a say faculty from Career Launcher. TIME predicts a cut-off in the range of 17-19 marks for this section of CAT 2008 while Career Launcher, IMS and PT have released cut-offs exceeding a net score of 30 for this section. aThe overall difficulty level of this section was similar to last year with a slight but important difference. Questions that seemed easy had tricky answers and the ones that were not easy were anyways difficult to solve. So this section would see a high attempt rate but accuracy would be low,a comments Munira Lokhandwala.

Experts from Career Launcher put forth an interesting point, aOne can also assume the larger number of verbal ability questions to be a reflection of the pattern followed by GMAT where verbal ability questions are almost as much in number as QA and LRDI put together. Are these signs of CAT going online?a Faculty from IMS comments, aThe paper was overall on the easier side. The uneven number of questions across sections also meant that time management was crucial.a As far as overall cut-offs are concerned, IMS and Career Launcher predict that a score of 120 would be required for an IIM call while according to TIME a score range of 114-118 would suffice.

Table of coaching centers and cut-offs for CAT 2008

To save you from entering your answers at the individual sites of these coaching institutes, PG Scorecard is a central place for you to see how you have fared across the different answer keys and cut-offs that have been released. Further you can also get to know how your performance compares with others who enter scores at the PG Scorecard.