At 83.6%, turnout for CAT 2016 up from last year

Last year turnout stood at 82%; registrations too were up by 6% this year

Over 195,000 candidates took the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016, the gate to all Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other B-schools across 138 cities on Sunday.

With this, CAT 2016 saw the overall turnout go up from 82 per cent last year to 83.6 per cent this year, said CAT officials, who added that the test was conducted glitch free despite concerns of heavy rains in Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu.

The total registrations this year had closed at over 233,000, up by six per cent over last year. CAT 2015 registrations had closed at 218,664