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The Common Admission Test is an online examination for admission in Management courses in various institutions in India, including the coveted IIMs. With almost 2 lakh aspirants taking the exam every year, the significance of this aptitude examination has only increased over the years. This is why students need to understand the level of competition that awaits them if they are targeting the premium MBA institutes in India such as IIMs, ISB and so on. With the cut off consistently between 99 and 100 percentiles over the past few years, what a student must understand is the importance of planned and strategic preparation for the CAT.
Let us try to understand the sections of IR in the vast syllabus prescribed by the UPSC. IR is crucial for all the three stages of the exam. It is directly mentioned in the syllabus of the Prelims (the first stage) and Mains (the second stage). In the Prelims exam, IR comes under the heading of the syllabus mentioned as “Current Affairs of National and International Importance”. A simple analysis of the past year Prelims exam papers will suggest any aspirant that the above-mentioned section is one of the most important sections of the syllabus, contributing nearly 35 to 40 questions per year. A further breakdown of the above section of the syllabus gives us a better picture. As per that, one can infer that on an annual basis, there are 10 to 12 questions in the Prelims exam that can be directly related to IR.
