CAT 2020 exam has been successfully conducted by IIM Indore in three slots for 2,27,835 students at 430 test centres. As per a statement issued by Himanshu Rai, director, IIM-Indore, “Amidst the COVID Pandemic around 83.5 percent candidates appeared for the B-school entrance exam this year.” As per the examinees the CAT 2020 exam was moderate and perfectly balanced.

Overall CAT analysis 2020 states that slot 1 and 2 exam difficulty level was moderate. Each slot comprised of total of 76 questions in CAT 2020 question paper where the VARC section was moderate to easy, DILR was difficult section while Quant was easy to moderate. Coaching institutes are soon to release detailed IIM CAT 2020 exam analysis, cut-offs and answer key.

IIM Indore will release official answer key by December 5, 2020, in the format of individual CAT response sheet. Candidates will get to know what are the responses that they have given in CAT 2020 and they will get an opportunity to challenge it within the specified time period. CAT answer key 2020 will be provided to all the candidates who appeared in 3 different slots. The answer key of CAT 2020 will be available online on iimcat.ac.in. Students will be able to download CAT 2020 answer key through the login window by entering user ID and password.

However, some institutes may release CAT 2020 answer key before the official one. But one should wait for official answer key to know their exact probable score as unofficial answer keys are prepared as per students' feedback.

Section Wise Analysis:

1. Verbal & Reading Comprehension (VARC)

The overall difficulty level of the section was difficult. There were a total of 4 sets of Reading comprehension. Compared to last year, this section was tough. Two passages were moderate and two were difficult. Questions were not straight forward; they were inference based. In VARC, out of 26 questions, there were 21 MCQs and 5 TITA based questions.

2. Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)

DILR was tough as compared to last year’s paper. There were 2 sets of 6 questions each. There were 6 TITA (Type in The Answer) questions out of the 24 questions asked in this section. In DILR, out of 24 questions, there were 18 MCQs and 6 TITA based questions.

3. Quantitative Ability (QA)

This time, the majority of the questions were from Arithmetic and Algebra. The overall level of the section was moderate and tougher than last year. Around 8-10 questions asked from Arithmetic, out of which 5- 6 questions were of easy level. Algebra - There were around 10 questions in which 3-4 questions were of easy level. In QA, out of 26 questions, there were 18 MCQs and 8 TITA based questions.

It is expected that a raw score of 125-130 can fetch you 99.5 percentile. The result of the exam is expected to be out in the second week of January 2020.