Quantitative Analysis tougher than expected in CAT 2018, cheering engineers

CAT 2018 will select candidates for the 20 Indian Institutes of Management and more than 110 other business schools.

Quantitative Analysis (QA), the section that often jeopardises the chances of non-engineering candidates of getting into Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), turned out to be more difficult than expected this year in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2018.

Gateway to the 20 premier IIMs and over 110 non-IIM B-schools, CAT 2018 was held in a reportedly smooth manner across 147 cities in two slots on Sunday.

The entrance test was of 180 minutes, divided into three sections, including Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Analysis (QA).

According to CAT experts, unlike last