Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad conducted its Entrance Exam -MICAT - for admission to its 2 Year Post Graduate Diploma in Management Communications on 13th December 2015. This year MICAT became a combuter based test. The test comprised two sections.

MICAT Section I Analysis

This section had two questions. The questions were descriptive in nature. This section tested the writing ability and creative skills of test-takers. The total time given for attempting these questions was 35 minutes.The first question was based on Essay Writing. The topic for the essay was ‘Enviornment is more important than development.' The essay question was further sub-divided into three questions. In the first and the second question, 5 points each had to be written in favour of and against the topic. In the third question, an essay of 200 words had to be written either in favour of or against the topic. In the last part the students were to assume that they were responding to an editor's request. The instructions for the question clearly stated that ‘no marks would be awarded for a neutral viewpoint’. The Story Writing question had 4 different pictures. The students had to select a sequence for the pictures and then write a story in 300 words including all the pictures.

MICAT Section II was divided into five parts. The time allotted for this section was 130 minutes. One could navigate between the different parts of this section.

MICAT 2015 Part A Psychometric Test

Part I, which was a psychometric test, had no negative marking. It was compulsory to attempt all the questions in this part. The instruction sheet clearly said that failure to attempt all the questions in this part would lead to disqualification.
There were three kinds of questions. The first set of questions had 30 statements out of which one had to pick 10 describing one’s personality traits without ranking them. The second set of question asked one to choose from a set of two arguments and also to rate them in accordance with one’s personality traits. In the third set of questions, one had to rank the various responses under given situations on a scale of 1 to 6 (where a rating of 1 implied highest priority and a rating of 6 meant least priority).

MICAT 2015 Part B Reasoning

Part B had 30 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question.

MICAT 2015 Part C General Knowledge

Part C had 25 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question. Few questions such as location of 'Bagdogra' was from Geography while 'Battle of Plassey' & The Battle of Asal Uttar were from history. Rest of all questions were from Business, Contemporary Economic Development, Brands & Tagline, Corporate affairs etc. Some questions were from abbreviations too.

MICAT 2015 Part D Verbal Ability

Part D had 25 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question.

MICAT 2015 Part E Quatitative Ability

Part D had 25 questions. The penalty for incorrect answers was 25% of the marks allotted to the question.

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