The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2017 entrance exam will be conducted by Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML). The entrance test act as a gateway to IIM institutes, leading management colleges and other reputed B-Schools present in the country.
The convener of the entrance examination will be Prof. Neeraj Dwivedi of IIM Lucknow. The entrance exam is going to be conducted in the month of October or November this year.
IIM-L will be conducting the test after a gap of many years. Registrations for the Common Admission Test (CAT) to IIMs and other leading B-schools shot up to a seven-year high in 2016, with 2,32,434 candidates applying for the entrance test to IIMs and other prominent B-schools.
Rajendra K Bandi, convenor of CAT 2016, said that from the period CAT 2010 to CAT 2016, this is the highest number of applicants. While we still have a majority of male candidates (67%), the percentage of female candidates has marginally increased by 1% compared to last year, which is a good sign but not good enough.