Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta will release the CAT 2018 Answer Key in the first week of December 2018. Candidates who have appeared for the exam on November 25, 2018, could able to download the official answer key and questions paper. Last year, the answer key was released on December 07, 2018. So, this year it is highly expected that CAT Answer Key 2018 will publish in a few days soon.
Even in prestigious daily, it has been stated that an announcement regarding answer key will be updated in next 10 days at the official website of CAT 2018. The answer key will be available in the pdf format containing the right answer to each question. In case there are any errors, candidates could also able to challenge the same by paying Rs 1000/- per question. After the proper verification, final answer key will release and the fee for the valid queries will be refunded.
This year CAT examination was taken by approximately 2 Lakh candidates in 147 cities all over India. With unexpected surprises by IIM Calcutta, candidates are now curious to know the correct answers of the exam. This year with tough quantitative ability section, test takers are worried if this section could lead to the dip in their result. According to various experts, cut off for the exam will decrease as compared to last year.
Until official CAT 2018 Answer Key is available, candidates must stay away from unofficial and unauthentic sources. Test takers are also advised not to share actual content for CAT 2018 via any mode. Once the key is available, candidates can download it to predict the percentile or shortlist the B-schools according to the performance.
As stated in the official notification, CAT 2018 result will release in the second week of January 2019. It will contain the scaled score and percentile of a candidate. IIM uses the process of Normalization in order to calculate the scaled score. This process is the same as followed in other national exams like GATE. In simple terms, the actual raw score of candidates is normalized after considering the factors like location, difficulty level, marks allocation etc. Once it is done, normalization is further done in each section and a final scaled score is printed on the result.
On the day of CAT result, IIM will start publishing the list of shortlisted candidates on their official website. The admission process of most of the IIMs is already present for admission 2019-21. The process followed by each IIM may vary depending upon the factors considered by them for the selection of a candidate.
Also, the Non-IIM institutes accepting CAT score will release the cut-off to start the admission process. Candidates who have not yet applied for other major national level exams can apply before the last date of application.
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