INDORE: After controversy over common admission test (CAT), Indian Institutes of Managements studies have witness a major decline in the number of non-IIM business schools which accept the CAT marks for admission in their respective colleges this year.
As on August 6, the number of non-IIM institutes registered for CAT-2014 scores was merely 89, a total of 31 institutes less than previous year's figure.
Last year as many as 125 non-IIM b-schools have subscribed CAT scores for carrying out admissions on their respective campuses. A year before that, more than 150 institutes -- other than 13 IIMs - had used CAT scores for admissions.
The decrease in number of non-IIM b-schools last year was attributed to CAT-2012 scam.
The scam had come to fore in June, 2013 when a comparison of CAT- 2012 scores available on the website www.catiim.in(hosted and managed by M/ s Web Weavers) with master database of the scores (those received from Prometric) was done.
The comparison had revealed that scores of at least 80 examinees were inflated when uploaded on the website. The non-IIM b-schools were provided with the scores on the website for admissions while the IIMs used master score-sheets for enrolments.
Feeling cheated, many non-IIM b-schools that registered for CAT- 2012 had opting out of CAT-2013. The further decrease in number of non-IIM b-schools signals that more institutes are losing faith in CAT.
However, IIM Indore that is organising CAT for the second time in a row, is not ready to accept it. CAT- 2014 convener Rohit Kapoor, a faculty with IIM Indore, said that it would not be justified to come to any kind of conclusion regarding the numbers of institutes registered for CAT-2014 at this point of time as the registrations are still under process. "I'm sure that the number of non-IIM b-schools will increase. We will cross the last year's mark," he said.
A closer look at the CAT-2014 website reveals that many major institutes that were part of CAT-2013 did not register for use of CAT scores this year.
A few of them are: University School of Management (Kurukshetra University), Fortune Institute of International Business (Delhi), Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's, Usha and Lakshami Mittal Institute of Management (Delhi), Asia Pacific Institute of Management (Delhi), Institute of Health Management and Research (Jaipur), CCS National Institute of Agriculture Marketing (Jaipur), Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (Lucknow), Lucknow University, JRE Group of Institutions (Uttar Pradesh), Thiugarajar School of Management and School of Management Studies (University of Hyderabad).
CAT score for admission: Thumbs-down from more B-schools
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Oleh
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