More than 3,500 students, who have had a crack at the Common Admission Test, can expect a call from at least one of the seven Indian Institutes of Management.
The results of CAT, which would be used by the IIMs and 124 other management institutes to enrol students, were released on Tuesday. Over two lakh B-school aspirants appeared for the examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other B-Schools across the country. "The scores can be accessed by keying in the test registration number and either the date of birth or the CAT application number," states the information given on the IIM's website. For accessing the results via SMS, one should send a message to 57333. The text should be as follows: CAT - a space, the registration number, one more space and the date of birth. The CAT, considered as one of the world's most demanding entrance examination for any graduate institute, was conducted on November 18th, 2007 to short list only about 5,000 candidates for admission to the IIMs. The short-listed candidates would be called for group discussions and personal interviews within a few days after the publication of the result. They would be individually communicated by post for the venue and date of interviews. The CAT score forms basis for about 110 B-Schools in the country for short-listing students for various management programs
But senior IIM faculty members themselves could not throw any light on the exact number of successful CAT aspirants. Confusion reigned as the website - supposed to tell 2.3 lakh candidates the CAT results - crashed, unable to take the load of queries from every corner of the country.
Thousands of students could not view their percentile scores as they logged on at the stroke of 3 pm. ''The entire exercise was an anti-climax. Even if some students got to know their percentile scores, they had no way of knowing which IIM would be giving them a call as the website had crashed by then,'' management institute TIME-Bangalore director Ajay Arora said.
The CAT admission committee decided to have a dedicated website this year after all the individual IIMs' websites crashed on result day last year. ''But this, too, does not seem to have helped. We will upload the results on individual IIM websites if the problem persists on Wednesday morning,'' a senior IIM official said. Though no trend was clearly discernible in all the confusion, faculty members said results varied widely across the three sections: English, Data Interpretation and Quantitative Analysis. And, for most, English was apparently the toughest section to crack, teachers said.
So, if a student has not scored well in English despite faring well in the other two sections, s/he may still not get a call from any of the IIMs. This is because IIMs - unlike other B-schools - insist on a minimum level of competence in all the three sections.
''The sectional cut-off for English seems to be on the higher side at 25 this year. Quantitative analysis, which was tougher, saw a drop in the cut-off (from 40 to 30) this year. The Data Interpretation section, too, as always, was easy,'' Arindam Lahiri of Career Launcher, a Delhi CAT coaching centre, said.
Faculty members also said there was a wide variability in performance across the three sections. And all these factors may prompt IIMs to relax cut-offs this year.
But some things have remained the same. About 90% of the successful candidates across most IIMs may again be engineering students, say senior faculty members.
The results of CAT, which would be used by the IIMs and 124 other management institutes to enrol students, were released on Tuesday. Over two lakh B-school aspirants appeared for the examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other B-Schools across the country. "The scores can be accessed by keying in the test registration number and either the date of birth or the CAT application number," states the information given on the IIM's website. For accessing the results via SMS, one should send a message to 57333. The text should be as follows: CAT - a space, the registration number, one more space and the date of birth. The CAT, considered as one of the world's most demanding entrance examination for any graduate institute, was conducted on November 18th, 2007 to short list only about 5,000 candidates for admission to the IIMs. The short-listed candidates would be called for group discussions and personal interviews within a few days after the publication of the result. They would be individually communicated by post for the venue and date of interviews. The CAT score forms basis for about 110 B-Schools in the country for short-listing students for various management programs
But senior IIM faculty members themselves could not throw any light on the exact number of successful CAT aspirants. Confusion reigned as the website - supposed to tell 2.3 lakh candidates the CAT results - crashed, unable to take the load of queries from every corner of the country.
Thousands of students could not view their percentile scores as they logged on at the stroke of 3 pm. ''The entire exercise was an anti-climax. Even if some students got to know their percentile scores, they had no way of knowing which IIM would be giving them a call as the website had crashed by then,'' management institute TIME-Bangalore director Ajay Arora said.
The CAT admission committee decided to have a dedicated website this year after all the individual IIMs' websites crashed on result day last year. ''But this, too, does not seem to have helped. We will upload the results on individual IIM websites if the problem persists on Wednesday morning,'' a senior IIM official said. Though no trend was clearly discernible in all the confusion, faculty members said results varied widely across the three sections: English, Data Interpretation and Quantitative Analysis. And, for most, English was apparently the toughest section to crack, teachers said.
So, if a student has not scored well in English despite faring well in the other two sections, s/he may still not get a call from any of the IIMs. This is because IIMs - unlike other B-schools - insist on a minimum level of competence in all the three sections.
''The sectional cut-off for English seems to be on the higher side at 25 this year. Quantitative analysis, which was tougher, saw a drop in the cut-off (from 40 to 30) this year. The Data Interpretation section, too, as always, was easy,'' Arindam Lahiri of Career Launcher, a Delhi CAT coaching centre, said.
Faculty members also said there was a wide variability in performance across the three sections. And all these factors may prompt IIMs to relax cut-offs this year.
But some things have remained the same. About 90% of the successful candidates across most IIMs may again be engineering students, say senior faculty members.
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