The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) conducts C-MAT every year across 75 cities for management aspirants in the country
Several students who had appeared for the Common Management Admission Test(C-MAT), 2018 pointed out discrepancies in the results of the exam which were declared on February 15. Many students claimed to have scored way lower that what they had calculated after the answer key was out while several others scored a 'zero' even as their exams went well.
The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) conducts C-MAT every year across 75 cities for management aspirants in the country. Over 1,000 management institutes in the country consider C-MAT scores at the time of admissions. This year, the exam was conducted across all the centres on January 20. A final merit list was published on C-MAT's official website on February 17.
After the list was uploaded, several students pointed out that of the 20 top scorers, 16 gave their examinations from the same centre with the common code '11510' and scored between 75-80 in General Aptitude and thus wrote to the AICTE. "If one looks at the list, some centres have all the top scorers while the others have all the students scoring a zero. This cannot be a coincidence and needs to be looked into. There is a possibility that students at a particular centre copied and got near identical scores" said Meet Unadkat an aspirant.
Another student who wished to remain anonymous said "I have scored at least 20 marks lesser than the projected score. Even as we know that changes are bound to take place in projected and actual scores, this seems like a glitch".
AICTE Chairman Dr Anil Sahasrabudhe said that the council has received over 80 emails from students complaining about their marks. "After we got those many complaints, we double checked each case but found that there were no errors in the marking system as it is automated. There is no merit in the claims made by students- those who marked the right answers did well, those who didn't scored less" he added.
THE TEST AND THE ISSUE
- C-MAT tests students in 4 key areas- Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation, logical reasoning, Language Comprehension,General Awareness.
- The 3 hour long test has negative marking where 1 mark is deducted for every wrong answer
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