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15. March 2010 02:18
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| The Wait is over .................but was the wait worth it?? |
Admin: The post is sent to us by a CAT aspirant who prefers to keep his name anonymous.
In below writeup he vents out his frustration on CAT -Fiasco which led to many consequences in his career progression. |
The judgment got delayed and delayed, but was the wait worth it is the big question ? Or lets jump to more important question for the 2.4 lakh students who waited for 3 months. Was the judgment right? Was the method used for evaluating the students correct? Was the gauze faulty?
Though it has been talked about and discussed thousand times there is no right answer to the question "Is the selection process for the most reputed MBA colleges in India justified?"
There are many questions that were left unanswered after CAT -2010.
The registration process for CAT started from 9th September 2009 and the CAT 2010 story is still going on. IIM authorities decided to make the registration process also online but it was not a smooth ride either. The registration process was marred by issues itself so the authorities had no option other than to extend the registration process. Somehow the registration process closed successfully and the students hoped that the worst was over. But they didn't knew that this was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Then came the D-day and the students already anxious about the new format were in for a surprise. CAT -2010 started was full of problems- disruptions caused due to malfunctioning of computers; missing graphics and data; consequent rescheduling of test and premature exit due to inadvertent use of "End" button.The problems were seen in large numbers on the initial days of the test. The students who appeared for the test on subsequent went into the examination with doubts whether the Prometric softwares will let them complete the test.
After lot of uproar by the affected students and their families the second phase of the CAT was planned. This meant that the results of the CAT will be delayed to the 3rd week of February. But even after the 3rd week of February came and went by no results were declared. Finally after much delay the results were declared on 28th February. Wait but the CAT story was not over yet.
The results declared were far from being fair. CAT scorecard contained scaled scores instead of the actual score of the students. According to Prometric the scaling was done to adjust the difficulty levels across different slots. This was again a contradiction from the earlier statement by the IIM authorities that the difficulty level would be maintained across different slots. Moreover the criteria used for this scaling was not clear. For the sake of explanation a vague term "Psychometric equivalences" was introduced without any further info on how this was used.
Out of 8 IIM's(including IIM Ranchi) only 2 declared their Interview shortlist on 28th Feb. Actually the IIM's were busy modifying the shortlist criteria so that the weight-age of CAT scores are reduced significantly. In some cases the weight age on CAT scores were reduced by as much as 45% compared to previous year. IIM-Kozhikode -- which placed the highest weightage on CAT scores all these years, 90 points -- has proposed reducing it to 50 points for this academic year's admission. Shortlist for IIMI calls was not posted until 11th March. The shortlist for IIMRanchi is still awaited.
The most surprising fact here is that the HRD ministry is sleeping all through the CAT fiasco without any concerns for the students. It is quite evident that even the IIM's have reduced the weightage of CAT scores for a reason. But the HRD ministry is either not concerned to intervene or is turning a blind eye to everything. They seem to be following the words of "Bapu" quite religiously "Bura mat dekho, Bura mat suno".
The CAT-2010 can be summed up in a few words -
The Mismanagement by Management GURUS.
It seems the only good CAT-2010 was able to achieve this time around was to Save paper and about 1000 trees in the process.
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