Just when CAT 2010 was being written off as a ‘no-glitches’ exam, reports have begun to trickle in about ‘wrong questions’ and ‘no right options.’ According to candidates who have given the exam this season, a few questions have been tough to crack but the real reason for their tough character  is possibly because they never had the the right answer options.

Speaking to Pagalguy, Sanjay Kumar Gandhi who took his CAT exam on November 8 at Sri Balaji Society in Pune said that his paper sported at least four wrong questions. “Two questions in Quant and two in DI were wrong.  Some did not have the right options,” he said.

Bharat Hazare who also took the test on November 8 said that his paper also had some questions which he thought were wrong and options available were also not right.

Other exam takers have also complained.  Speaking for  the October 31 paper, a candidate student remarked that at least four questions in his paper were ‘wrong’ in the exam held post-lunch.  “Two choices were repeated and two were wrong and I wasted time doing them,”

On November 3 too, a candidate remarked that his paper had mistakes in the answer options. On November 5  as well,  there were reports by some candidates that the questions were ambiguous.

When asked, CAT Convenor Prof Himanshu Rai said that he has taken note of all the complaints on the website about the wrong questions and initiated an inquiry for the same. Prof Rai said there were two scenarios possible in the given situation. “One could be that there is no problem and students who have not been able to answer the question  felt it was wrong. If more than one feels the question is wrong and it is mutually discussed in a group, then everybody feels that the question is wrong.”