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LATEST
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09th
March 2010 / Business Standard
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 IIMs, students spar over CAT score method
More than 20 RTIs filed.
It’s akin to a boxing match. On one side of the ring stand the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) backed by Prometric — the institute which implemented the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT). On the other side of the ring are students who have the support of test-preparing institutes.
Both sides are sparring over the methodology used for the CAT scores which enable MBA aspirants get into the IIMs and other prominent B-schools. While the IIMs and Prometric maintain that the scores are fair to students, the other is not amused and is raising a “transparency” issue.
Over 20 right to information (RTI) applications have been filed across the country till date by students, and many more are expected, say students and faculty members of test-preparing institutes.
In its defence, Prometric has even put up a statement on the CAT IIM website: “We have reviewed the test scoring and we are completely confident that the results are appropriately distributed across the population, and that the test performed well within international standards. We are absolutely confident that the scores and rankings are accurate,” asserts Soumitra Roy of Prometric India. The statement added that candidate concerns will be addressed by Prometric’s candidate care centre.
But the student community is insisting that it wants “the IIMs and Prometric to come clean on the whole issue and be transparent”. “We want to know what action has been taken on people who had cheated and the database used to equate scores across different question sets,” said a student who has filed two RTI applications. |
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