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.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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.