mumbai cat 2018 the entrance test for iims saw 50 more women candidates than six years ago this year 84350 women registered for the common admission test conducted on november 25 compared to 56409 in 2013 women also contributed to over 50 growth in total registrations from 2017 in all there were 241 lakh aspirants this year compared to 229 lakh last year of whom 78009 were womenread alsoprivate mba colleges in delhincr that you can considernew delhi the common admission test cat for admission to premier management institutes of the country was conducted on sunday november 25 2018 the cat 2018 results will be released in january 2019 as the cat 2018 exam is over the the next thing that candidates need to work on is the choiceof the 12000 more candidates who registered 6300 were women revealedcat registration data for the two yearscat convenor sumanta basu from iim calcutta which conducted this years test said the iims are consciously giving leverage to women to increase diversity in classrooms we want more women in our institutesthe jump was the highest in 2015 when women candidates went up from 69176 the previous year to 76704 but overall registrations too had gone up significantly by over 20000 in 2015 the iims have been reserving seats for women and nonengineers to make classes diverse iimkozhikode was the first to set aside seats for women in 2013that year 54 of the institutes pgp postgraduate programme in management batch of 361 students comprised women also 60 of summer placement jobs went to them said director debashis chatterjeea study has shown that there is no correlation between managerial positions and mathematical ability there will be a gradual switch in the coming years when class strength will be tilted in favour of girls said chatterjee iims have changed their eligibility criteria over the years the weightage given to cat differs for all iims the parameters considered for shortlisting candidates for group discussion personal interview and written ability test also include class x and xii scores girls do better in school and higher secondary classes but as families prefer sending boys for coaching for preparation of entrance exams they may be doing better there said chatterjee most iims even give about 5 additional points while shortlisting for gender diversity in classroomsprashanth nair centre director for mumbai in a leading coaching institute said they have seen a rise in the number of girls in their coaching class