Officially announced by IIM Kozhikode, CAT is the mandatory entrance exam for admission to MBA 2020 in 20 IIMs and other top MBA colleges in India. The exam which will be conducted on 24^th November-19, is therefore referred to as IIM CAT and is conducted by IIMs on annual basis by one of the 6 older IIMs.

Following are the highlights of CAT 2019

CAT 2019 Important Dates

Documents required:

The required items of information and main documents required for CAT 2019 online completion of registration and application form are:

• Documents related to Educational history from class 10 onwards.
• Mark sheets Class-10.
• Mark Sheet Class 12^th.
• Mark sheet Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma.
• Final Year Certificate from the HoD/Principal (If in final year of graduation);  also previous year mark sheet.
• Work experience certificate, if any.
• Applicable Certificates to upload for Category/Affidavits.
• Scanned images of passport size photo (dimensions 35mm X 45mm) and signature (1000mm X 35 mm); (not to be more than six months old and in a white background) to be uploaded at the time of registration. The documents file format should be .jpg or .jpeg and the file size should not more than 80KB each. A clear image with a minimum resolution of 150px.
• Fee payment instruments to pay exam fee – like Debit/Credit cards, Net banking

Changes made this year:

• It is conducted by IIM Kozhikode.
• Number of Test Cities for CAT 2019 has increased to 156 from last year.
• Students can choose 4 out of 156 test cities while applying.
• Only 'Delhi NCR' as test city is available for the candidates from Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon.
• Tutorials to understand the test format and question pattern will be available on the CAT website from October 16^th, 19.

Exam Pattern

• This exam is a computer delivered test of 3 hours duration but it is not an Online Exam.
• The exam will have 100 questions divided in 3 sections of VARC, DILR and Quantitative Ability.
• Out of 100 questions, more than 25 questions will not have negative marking. Paper is divided into MCQ and Non-MCQ pattern and the Non-MCQs do not carry negative marking. In few cases, non-MCQ has negative marking; a few MCQs are changed to no negative marking questions.
• More than 70% questions are on MCQ format and will carry penalty of 1/3 negative marking.
• A Minimum qualifying score between 70 and 90 percentile is required by IIMs in each of the 3 sections to shortlist candidates for final admission round.
• Apart from High score in each of the 3 sections in exam, you need to have good academic profile to get into IIMs.

Cut offs for Admission 2020

The CAT score cut offs for the batch 2020-22 is expected as:

Source: www.mbauniverse.com

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Since last few decades, there is an exponential growth in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Artificial Intelligence is a sub-branch of Computer science, is the science that helps develop computer machines that impersonate human intelligence. Thus, these machines are able to visually perceive things, recognize and differentiate speech, make decisions, translate between languages and much more. It has the potential to change every sector as and when needed. From something as simple to Agriculture to Healthcare and defense, it has the potential to do it all. 

With more people being attracted to the idea of Artificial Intelligence, people are now seeing a potential career in the field of AI. However, before you can do so, it is always a good thing to evaluate the scope and future of AI. The scope of AI in India is very significant as the ultimate aim is to create computer programs that can manage different problems and provide goal-oriented solutions efficiently. Hence, there is a scope for computer vision, game development, speech recognition, robotics, and language detection.

Educational requirement before opting AI:

- Mathematics, extending to mathematical logic. Particularly, topics such as algorithms, algebra, probability, calculus, and statistics.

- Sciences, mainly physics also plays a crucial part and also neural nets, graphical modeling, cognitive science theory, and robotics.

- Some knowledge of biology, mainly related to physiology and psychology is necessary

- The theory of computer science and how it actually works.

- Programming languages and coding is an complete must. It is important to learn at least 2 to 3 universal coding languages which is used for machine language coding; like C++, Java, and Prolog to name a few.

If you have a sufficient background knowledge related to AI, then the next obvious step would be to figure out where to pursue a course/degree in AI. If you want to study abroad, then there are an umpteen number of universities in the US. However, if you want to do the same in India, then IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, and IISc Bangalore offer the same courses.

Some institutes in India which offer courses in Artificial Intelligence are:

• University of Hyderabad
• IIT Bombay
• IIT Madras
• IISc Bangalore
• ISI Kolkata
• To know about more institutes logon to: https://www.shiksha.com/it-software/ai-robotics/colleges/colleges-india

The career domains that include AI are many and vast. Some common domains include:

- Private and Public organizations.

- Education, both primary and advanced.

- Advanced Healthcare facilities.

- Government agencies and committees related to research.

- Military.

Various roles available in these sectors include:

- Software, Electrical and Mechanical engineers, developers, and analysts.

- Research scientists

- Manufacturing and maintenance engineers.

- Computer engineers, Game programmers, developers and algorithm specialists.

- Surgical technicians

Artificial Intelligence is being utilized by more and more companies to create products and services at breakneck speed. Thus, in near future, Artificial Intelligence is going to outperform human performance by leaps and bounds. With a rich range of talent in the sector of computer science, data science and the related fields, India is making its mark in the AI world market. With a more success rate, more talent will eventually be pooled into this trendy field in the country and we are already on our march to raising our rank in the AI competition!