  The galactic and extragalactic surveys are two of the main proposed legacy
projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), providing an unbiased view of
the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. Considering Cherenkov telescopes'
limited field of view ($<10^\circ$), the time needed for those projects is
large. The many telescopes of CTA will allow taking full advantage of new
pointing modes in which telescopes point slightly offset from one another. This
divergent pointing mode leads to an increase of the array field of view ($\sim
14^\circ$ or larger) with competitive performance compared to normal pointing.
We present here a study of the performance of the divergent pointing for
different array configurations and number of telescopes. We briefly discuss the
prospect of using divergent pointing for surveys.
