Nearly 36% of candidates in CAT 2019 were women, but none of them made it to the 100 percentile mark, according to the organising institute, IIM Kozhikode.
The ECI needs to respond to Rahul Gandhi’s accusations professionally and transparently. Else, it will end up giving him the ammunition he is desperately seeking.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Gen Dwivedi framed Op Sindoor not just as retaliation to Pahalgam, but as demonstration of India’s capability to fight multi-domain conflicts with integration between services & agencies.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Those of us who completed their graduation in Commerce, Arts or Science from universities where getting a first class is a bridge too far leave alone securing 80-90 percent find it extremely difficult to get a seat in an IIM despite great CAT scores, simply because IIMs consider past marks. This need to be done away with.
It would be interesting to learn the academic backgrounds of those who set the test. If bulk of them have engineering backgrounds then the rest may be biased. There are non-arithmatical ways of testing analytical skills which may even out the playing field. Bear in mind too that numbers are a representation of reality and not reality. In management the ability to deal with reality determines the outcome in numbers.
Irony is that, none of the Commerce graduates could make up in top 10 , to study business management course. IIM’s exam pattern seems suits engineering background students very much.
No this is not so, saying exam pattern suits engineering students will be wrong,
Instead the reason lies behind the ability and potential of such students to study for maximum hours…
This photograph is of the Louis Kahn Plaza at IIM A, named in honour of its Architect. The convocation ceremony is held here, a proud moment for the gifted young women and men who have studied here for two years, and their parents.
Those of us who completed their graduation in Commerce, Arts or Science from universities where getting a first class is a bridge too far leave alone securing 80-90 percent find it extremely difficult to get a seat in an IIM despite great CAT scores, simply because IIMs consider past marks. This need to be done away with.
It would be interesting to learn the academic backgrounds of those who set the test. If bulk of them have engineering backgrounds then the rest may be biased. There are non-arithmatical ways of testing analytical skills which may even out the playing field. Bear in mind too that numbers are a representation of reality and not reality. In management the ability to deal with reality determines the outcome in numbers.
Irony is that, none of the Commerce graduates could make up in top 10 , to study business management course. IIM’s exam pattern seems suits engineering background students very much.
No this is not so, saying exam pattern suits engineering students will be wrong,
Instead the reason lies behind the ability and potential of such students to study for maximum hours…
This photograph is of the Louis Kahn Plaza at IIM A, named in honour of its Architect. The convocation ceremony is held here, a proud moment for the gifted young women and men who have studied here for two years, and their parents.