The Indian Institute of Managements declared the results of the common admission test (CAT) 2011 on Wednesday. While nine candidates across the nation have secured that perfect 100th percentile, two from the city have made it to the list of toppers.
Prof. Janakiraman Moorthy, convenor 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.
Shashank Prabhu, a doctor from Mumbai, has scored 100 percentile. Prabhu is doing his MBA at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi, and this was his third go at the CAT. “Like I always say, hard work will not go unrewarded every time. I will go through the IIM admission process and then decide whether to continue at FMS or go to IIM,” he said.
Ajinkya Deshmukh, an IIT-Madras graduate from Ambernath, is the other one from city who has got 100 percentile. For Deshmukh too it was the third attempt. He wishes to join IIM-A or IIM-Bangalore. He said, “I am excited to go back to a classroom after working for two years. It will give me a better understanding of the corporate world.” Deshmukh is a business analyst with a city firm.
The results have received mixed reactions from across the nation; normalisation process of the evaluations is one of the topics to have received angry responses from candidates and faculty from 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 this year too. A candidate said, “It has left me confused. After appearing for the exam 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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