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It’s the engineers who do the CATwalk New Delhi, January 12 The results have engineers in all top slots, with not a single non-engineering student managing to hit the perfect score or even a shade lesser. The CAT 2010 results declared today have thrown up 10 applicants who have hit the bull’s eye with 100 percentile. All of them are engineers, mainly electrical. A shade lesser are 19 applicants, who scored 99.9 percentile. Here too, engineers rule the roost. Except two girls (one each from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala), all other 100 and 99.9 percentilers are boys. “The highest scorers are all engineers. This trend can be explained sociologically as bright children are either pushed into engineering or medicine. That’s not to say non-engineering students don’t crack the CAT,” Prof Himanshu Rai of IIM-Lucknow, who was convener for CAT 2010, told The Tribune. In 2010, the IIMs, to encourage other students, decided to give 2.5 marks weightage in scores to applicants from 10 non-engineering disciplines, including law, commerce and medicine. These disciplines were listed in the admission forms. Vibhor Garg, a fourth-year electrical engineering student of Delhi College of Engineering who scored 99.99 percentile today, told TNS that in India management was much more glamorous than engineering. “That’s why engineers prefer an MBA over an M Tech for a PG degree. While an MBA from a fairly good business school gets a starting pay package of Rs 10 lakh a year, an MTech from a college of similar standing gets half that salary,” he said. The CAT 2010 saw 2, 04,000 applicants registering but only 1.87 lakh took the computerised test held in November 2010 over 20 days. The period saw different test papers being administered to applicants each time.Today’s results, however, don’t mark the end of admission to the IIMs at Ahmadabad, Kolkata, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Shillong, Ranchi and Rohtak. This is just the beginning. The final selection will happen after the IIMs conduct their interviews/group discussions in late February. Though there was earlier a suggestion that all IIMs should conduct an integrated interview for CAT crackers, the same hasn’t found favour with the students, who want as many interview chances as possible. “For students’ interest, the four main IIMs have decided to hold their interviews at the same place around the same time in late February. But students don’t want to lose out on their chance of appearing in as many IIM interviews as possible. It enhances their chances of selection,” Rai said. Importantly, several candidates who fared well in mock CATs held last year to train students in a computerised examination, failed to crack the test this time. Some of them have voiced apprehensions about the scaling of marks system which the IIMs follow to reach a uniform level to judge the answer output from 40 different question papers administered to students over 20 days. “There is no transparency in this scaling up. We don’t know what method the IIMs follow. They should list the criteria they follow for such scaling up which needs to be done as all 40 question papers can’t be of the same level,” a student who couldn’t make it today, said.
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