The National Institute of Technology Patna is simply known as Bihar School of Engineering and Bihar College of Engineering, it is a public engineering institution which is located in Patna, Bihar, India. National Institute of Technology Patna is the one of the 18th National Institute of Technology which is created by the Ministry of Human Resource of Department, on 28.01.2004, Government has renamed it to NIT Patna. This institute is the 6th oldest Engineering Institute of India. Out of all NITs institutes this institute is on the 31 position. Its first Educational Program was introduced in 1924. In 2002 the Government of India decided to promote the all Regional Engineering College to National Institute of Technology (NIT) Status, with the aim of having at least one NIT per state. In 2007, it was accepted Institute of National Importance status in accordance with the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007. NIT Patna will very soon set up its new campus at Bihta. The institute has recently signed a MOU with the Central Public Works Department for its construction. The new campus will be constructed in three phases on 125 acres of land which is allotted by the state government and has a sanctioned an amount of 500 cr. under funding scheme for higher education/technical institutes. It is expected that it will complete by March 2022. NIT Patna aims to set up very high quality of education standards and holds long record of academic excellence and has been on the fast track of development. It is contributing to India and the World in field of Scientific and technical education along with research, serve as a valuable resource for industry and society; and to be a source of pride for all Indian. The life time work of this institute is to generate new knowledge by emerging with research and to promote academic growth by offering state-of-the-art undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes. Make the identification of NITs in India with regional and global needs, area of specialization. To develop human potential with full of energy so that intellectually capable and imaginatively gifted leaders can emerge in a range of profession.
The courses which are offered by the Institute are: B.Arch, B.Tech, M.Tech, M.Plan, Integrated M.Sc, and M.Tech + Ph. D. This institute takes admission on the behalf of Entrance Exams, student have to go various types of Exam- JEE Main (for B.Tech), NATA (for B. Arch), GATE (for M.Tech and M.Plan). NIT Patna offers three years full-time Ph.D. research program to candidates having passed Master’s/ M/Phil Degree with at least 55% marks in aggregate. NIT Patna Ph.D. Admission will be done on the basis Entrance Exam conducted by the Institute.
• The National Institute of Technology was ranked in the 134 among engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2019. By The Week, its rank is 38.
• There are many scholarship programmes for meritorious and EWS who can easily grab this if have talented. The scholarship is provided on the basis of your percentage/performance in the semesters. There is a scholarship for OBC and SC/ST students also.
• This campus also provides the Educational Loan from the reputed Bank which is located on the campus-SBI, Punjab National, ICICI etc.
• Placements in National Institute of Technology, Patna are average. Almost 40% of the students got placed in core companies. Other students got placed in non-core companies like software developer and as a business analyst. The highest, lowest, average reached at 40LPA, 7.2LPA and 14LPA respectively.
• Last year Recruiters were-Accenture, Aditya Birla Chemicals, Aditya Birla Chemicals, Bharat Petroleum, Capgemini, Consulting Engineering Services, DENSO INDIA, Endeavour, ERA Group, Ericsson, Gadhia Solar, Gammon India, Godrej, HDFC, Hella, Hero Motor Corp, Hindalco, ILF&S, Indian Oil Corporation, ITD Cementation, Kribhco, L& T ECC, Maruti Suzuki, Matix Fertilizer, Microsoft,Mu Sigma etc. there are 50 more.
Ashok Rajpath, Mahendru Patna ( Bihar)
Conducting IIMs have been changed the pattern of the CAT exams several times over the years. It is extremely beneficial for the aspirants to know the CAT paper pattern as it helps in preparation and the aspirants can prepare according to the pattern and weightage of the topics.
Mode of the Exam | Online Only |
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Total number of Questions | 100 |
Total Marks | 300 |
Duration of the Examination | 3 hours (180 minutes) |
Sectional Division of the Paper | 3 sections |
Types of the Questions | Both MCQs and Non MCQs |
Marking Scheme |
For Correct Answers → +3 marks For Incorrect Answers → -1 mark For Unattempted Questions → No marks |
Name of the Sections |
1. Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension 2. Logical Reasoning & Data Interpretation 3. Quantitative Aptitude |
This Exam is conducted once in a year usually in the month of November on online mode and it is expected that this year this exam will held in the last week of November. The question paper contains 100 questions to be solved in 3 hours. 3 marks are assigned for correct answer and 1 mark is deducted for wrong answer in CAT Exam. English is the only medium of answering the questions. Each question consists of four choices from which only one is correct, candidates have to select the right answer from the given options.
CAT question paper consists of three sections divided as
Section’s Name | Number of Questions | Duration (in mins) |
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Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VARC) | 34 | 60 |
Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DI & LR) |
VA → 10 Questions RC → 24 Questions |
60 |
Quantitative Ability (QA) |
DI → 16 Questions LR → 16 Questions |
60 |
Total | 100 | 180 minutes (3hours) |
This section is a combination of two sub-sections namely Verbal Ability (VA) and Reading Comprehension (RC). The main focus of this section is on the English language skills of the candidates and how they understand and elucidate the paragraphs and Passages. This section consists of 34 questions, 10 questions of Verbal Ability and 24 questions of Reading Comprehension. Verbal ability sub-section consists of questions related to Para-jumbles, Summary based questions, Sentence Correction and Completion. The other sub-section, Reading Comprehension is based on the questions related to Vocabulary, title etc.
This section is also divided into two sub-sections, one is Logical Reasoning (LR) and other is Data Interpretation (DI). A total of 32 questions are asked in this section, 16 questions from both the sub-section. LR section contains solvable questions generally from the topics like inequalities, symbol operations, direction sense test etc. On the other hand DI section is a little difficult and time-consuming section as it consists of several confusing data case lets questions. This section contains tricky question and a little mistake in understanding the case lets can lead the candidates to attempt all the questions from a particular set incorrectly.
This section is a standalone section which comprises only numerical questions from different topics of Math. A total of 34 questions are asked in this section. This section contains questions based on Basic Arithmetic, Number System, Geometry, Algebra, Modern Math etc. The questions in this section ranges from easy to moderately high and can be answered easily with proper practice of the syllabus of Quantitative Aptitude.
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Prof. Prabhakar H
B.Sc., PG in HRD, PG in Training & Development |
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Prof. Prabhakar H
B.Sc., PG in HRD, PG in Training & Development |
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Prof. Prabhakar H
B.Sc., PG in HRD, PG in Training & Development |
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Prof. Prabhakar H
B.Sc., PG in HRD, PG in Training & Development |
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Prof. Prabhakar H
B.Sc., PG in HRD, PG in Training & Development |
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Prof. Prabhakar H
B.Sc., PG in HRD, PG in Training & Development |
CAT 2020 will be conducted in the following cities:
Port Blair | Kurnool | Nellore | Tirupati |
Vijaywada | Visakhapatnam | Chittoor | Itanagar |
Dibrugarh | Guwahati | Silchara | Aurangabad |
Gaya | Muzaffarpur | Patna | Chandigarh |
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