CAT Exams Online as of November 2009
November 2009 and candidate appearing for Common Admission Test can seem forward to doing away with document work as CAT, one of the country’s impressive entrance exams is all set to go online from 2009. The choice will crash thousands of students who each year appears for the highly gung ho entrance exam at centers crossways the country in the ambition of making it to the hallowed corridors of IIMs.
Speaking on the new initiative, Asish Bhattacharyya, admissions chairperson at IIM Calcutta, said that an online system would “help us handle the huge number of students appearing for the test every year. Last year the number crossed 2.3 lakh”. This number is only predictable to add to with projections of three lakh-plus in 2009.
Once the new system would be in place, not all students will be able to take the exam on the same day as is the system applicable now. The exam would then take place in phases with ’spread out batches’ within a period of a few months. The other alter will be that instead of the current single exam paper, the online test will carry quite a few different papers of the same level of difficulty.
“With the online test, CAT will be similar to the GMAT test in its process. This will be definitely valuable for the students as they can appear in the exam according to their correctness rather than a particular day”, says, Dr S P Parashar, Director, and IIM-Indore. The online CAT exam will be conduct on the prototype of like global exams like GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test), with the only exemption that the results will not be affirmed right absent.
IIM fees increase fees 11.5 Lakhs
“What is important is that there should be loans. Any student that can get into IIMs should be able to finance his education through a loan”, Ahluwalia said on the sidelines of a discussion to release the report of the High-Level committee on services sector.
Ahluwalia said he was told that the institutes have also introduced liberal scholarships, adding, “It is not clear to me that the government should be subsidising that (IIM) kind of education”.
The IIMs had decided to boost fees for their two-year post-graduate programmes. IIM Ahmedabad increased the fee from Rs 5 lakh for both the years of the course to Rs 11.5 lakh, while IIM Bangalore had decided to add to the fee to Rs 9 lakh from Rs 5 lakh. IIM Kolkata had likewise decided to increase the fee to Rs 6 lakh for the entire course from Rs Rs 3.75 lakh at present and similarly IIM Kozhikode resolute to improve the fee to Rs 6 lakh for the two-year programme from Rs 3.85 lakh.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh had supposedly asked IIM Ahmedabad Governing Council Chairman Vijaypat Singhania to put in basic words the ‘unnecessary tripling of the fees’.
Now, Reservation in IIMs and IITs 49.5%
Reservation in IITs/IIMs and central universities will go up to 49.5% (7.5% STs; 27% OBCs, 15%: SCs) from the accessible 22.5%. In a major judgement, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the legislation providing 27% quota for other backward castes (OBCs) in centrally funded educational institutions that includes all IITs and IIMs.
However, the cheaply well off, also known as the “creamy layer” from amongst the OBCs, however, will stay at the rear out of the quota’s ambit. A review of the quota’s persistence would have to be done every five years, the top court said.
The first to be impacted by the vital judgment were the 1,500 students getting ready for the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in the country. Within hours of the verdict coming in, the six IIMs determined to postpone admission of fresh batches and wait for the central government direction on 27 percent rider for OBCs.
The worktable, including Justices Arijit Pasayat, C.K. Thakkar, R.V. Raveendran and Dalveer Bhandari, also sought a time-bound review every five years of the effect of the law on the society. The creamy layers among the OBCs that would not be entitled for the quota include sons and wards of serving as well as former presidents, vice president, prime ministers, ministers, chief ministers, judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, bureaucrats and commissioned military officers.
As disappointment boost in campuses all over the country, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Arjun Singh said Thursday that the verdict would not power “any other category of students”. The minister guaranteed students that the percentage of seats would be increased in places like the IIT and IIM.
Indian School of Business in Top 20 Internationally
The Indian School of Business (ISB) has been listed as one among the top 20 global B-schools by the Financial Times yearly MBA 2008 rankings. The achievement is particularly notable, as the ISB is the first B -school from India, to have found a place in the FT’s B-school league table.
M Rammohan Rao, Dean, ISB, said, “This is a landmark event for the ISB. It sums up our single-minded goal to be recognized as a global centre of brightness in business education. This ranking is an important highlight in our journey to be an internationally top-ranked research-driven and self-governing management institution that grooms leaders for the world.”
The FT ranking is calculated on the basis of 20 criteria covering specifics like career progress of graduates, compilation of the MBA experience, global mobility of alumni, ideas generation and research, etc.
Ajit Rangnekar, Deputy Dean, ISB, commented, “We are proud to have played a part in positioning India and Andhra Pradesh on the global map of business education. The FT ranking raises the bar even higher for ISB, and we are prepared to assemble future expectations.” The ISB, in its sixth year now, has continually endeavored to excel on all parameters required to be placed among the best global B Schools, and in a amazingly short period of time has romped into the top 20.
IIM Calcutta announces stop for attendance at cinemas
The section of the IIMC CAT Bulletin 2007 states: “A candidate (including a category reserved candidate), to the selection list for GD and PI for admission to the postgraduate programmers should be a minimum 20%, 20% and 10% in the ‘quantitative’, ‘logic and data processing, interpretation, “and” verbal “sections, in that order.” The Bulletin is to say: “The real Cut-Off to a short list, however, may be higher than the minimum Cut - Off and depend on the performance of candidate countries in 2007 CAT. Cut-off may be diverse for varied categories (for example, general, SC, ST and PWD) candidates. ”
While the cut-offs always existed inside, the sources indicated that this year has been declared in advance to make sure a certain amount against the curb of excellence among students is the rate CBO, finally, the MHRD. Moreover, CAT has its IIMA Cut-offs higher, with a minimum of 25% in each section, and 33% above the aircraft. To keep SC / ST / PWD candidates for the DG / IP, a minimum of 17% in each of the three sections and 25% in the aggregate.
