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Saturday, January 14, 2012

CAT results Declared


IIM have declared the results for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2011 on Wednesday, in which nine aspirants have notched up a 100 percentile. Around 1.85 lakh candidates took the test over a 20-day period across 36 cities starting mid-October, 2011.
The IIM and several other B-schools, including the management studies departments in the National Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Technology, subscribe to CAT score. The IIT and FMS decided to accept CAT scores this year for their MBA.
The convenor of CAT 2011, professor Janakiraman Moorthy of IIM Calcutta, said the IIMs will start calling candidates for the next stage of the admission process with immediate effect. "Some IIM may come out with the list from this evening itself. Within a week, all the IIMs would have sent out mails to prospective candidates," he said. About the results, Moorthy said: "While nine aspirants scored 100 percentile, 1,800 candidates scored 99 percentile and above."Vinayak Gupta, a student of economics (H) with SRCC who scored 99.89 percentile, said: "The 15-minute trial was a great help, and the test was better organized."
This year, many of the new IIM, including those in Tiruchirapalli, Udaipur and Raipur, have increased their intake from 70 to 120 for MBA . This will improve the chances of making it to the prestigious institute.


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

MUNNI Badnaam in IIM

There is the news of IIM planning to change their name. The new proposed name of IIM is Management of Unique, New and Noteworthy Indians. 
It is said that this way every student will feel special, and would want even more to join the institute. However IIMs have not realized that their new names short form is MUNNI, and this would definitely get them badnaam.

B-schools accepting MAT scores - 2012


All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will publish a list of b-schools accepting  Management Admission Test (MAT) scores only once the registration closes for the exam on January 9, 2012. 

This has definitely not gone down too well with candidates who often decide on entrance exams only after knowing the institutes which will accept its scores. With regard to MAT, they are undoubtedly clueless.

Ankit Roy, an engineering graduate from Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata said that he has taken all the important exams including CAT. “The registration has closed for most premium colleges, so why should I sit for an exam when I don’t know where all I can apply through it. AICTE should come out with its list as soon as possible. Even the colleges need to be clear about their selection criteria for candidates coming in through MAT. They should clearly mention the number of students they will take through MAT, as most colleges declare their shortlist by early March. And from end of March till mid-April the interviews go on. With MAT scheduled late February, the entire interview schedule will either get postponed or the b-schools will have separate interviews for CMAT students, which seems quite unlikely.”

A flabbergasted microbiology graduate from Mumbai, Dakshina Nair said, “I haven’t recovered from the SNAP disaster yet to talk about MAT, but yes I have heard about it. I saw the advertisements but don’t plan to sit for it. AICTE should already have announced the list of colleges accepting MAT scores, even I might have given it a thought then.”

But there are few aspirants who think MAT is a brilliant idea if executed properly. According to Eshaan Ghosh, a final year instrumentation and control engineering student from Asansol, “What AICTE has planned with MAT is a very schematic decision and it can work if all management colleges come under the purview of one examination. It will then be like the All India Engineering Entrance Examination, after the results of which candidates can apply to various colleges.”