The Indian Institutes of Management declared the results of the common admission test (CAT) 2011 on Wednesday with nine candidates securing that perfect 100th percentile.
Professor Janakiraman Moorthy, convener of CAT 2011, said, “Around 1,800 students have secured beyond 99.9 percentile. Due to our privacy policy no more details can be shared until admissions are conducted by the individual IIMs.” There are in all 3,000 seats in the 13 IIMs.
The results have received mixed reactions. Normalisation process of the evaluations is one of the topics to have received angry responses from candidates and coaching institutes. The process revolves around the difficulty level of sections in the paper — the level drops when more students do well in a particular section considered to be difficult. This affects weightage and subsequently, the percentile. The process seems to have given many candidates a rude shock. A candidate said, “It has left me confused. I was sure of scoring well, but the score has disappointed me.” ARKS Shrinivasan from TIME coaching classes said, “The process is not transparent and has raised questions. It skews the picture with the varying difficulty levels and the subsequent changing weightage given to them.”
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