I quite agree with the article of Vikram Gupta titled uncertainities of Cat, but to add to it, I believe that at the end of the day what makes or breaks ones Cat paper would be simply the frame of mind with which one opens the seal and the control of mind that one exercises through the paper till the end. This along with stong fundamentals is sure to push you through.
B.Com students who stand first rank in B.Com exams with skills to do wonderful calculations and credit balance etc are finding that they are unable to actch up the speed of engineering students writing CAT. Why should not different scales be used for CAT evaluation for diff categories of students.
Management Institutes like IMM fail to practice management practice for a fair play at its own services...what a pity
RE:unequal status in CAT exam
by Raman Vinocha on Sep 29, 2004 11:47 PM Permalink
i agree with u raja about the fact that one from a b.com background is totally different from a engineer grad, yes he is different as far as technical knowledge is concerned, but MBA is nowhere related to technical knowledge...its all about your stratergy...your planning ...how u manage the things...it has nothing to do with engineering/technical knowledge, ... its all abt ur attitude...it all abt the management skill u have gained in your life. i hope i have represented a unbiased view u r most welcome for any cross-questions to my email ID raman_vinocha@rediffmail.com or raman.vinocha@gmail.com thanks & all the best to u for ur future endeavors
Warm Regards, Raman
Subject: unequal status in CAT exam
B.Com students who stand first rank in B.Com exams with skills to do wonderful calculations and credit balance etc are finding that they are unable to actch up the speed of engineering students writing CAT. Why should not different scales be used for CAT evaluation for diff categories of students.
Management Institutes like IMM fail to practice management practice for a fair play at its own services...what a pity
RE:unequal status in CAT exam
by Sumit Pathak on Sep 29, 2004 07:58 PM Permalink
As a student of IIM (IIM Calcutta ,PGDM 2006), I can assure you that it is not true that the same yardstick is used to judge the students from different academic backgrounds like Arts and Engineering.If that were true, you would find no one but only IITians at IIMs. In fact, the cut offs are different for people for different streams when the calls are given, thus, an engineering student with 95 percentile in quant may not get an IIM call but a humanities student with as low as 87-88 percentile in quant may get all the calls. I would like to request people not to act on heresay coz CAT may be considered the most impartial exam in India.
This aricle suffers from the same flaw that it professes that other articles have --- the assumptions that circumstances that everone faces is the same.
Having been an shop floor guy who has appeared for CAT and done an MBA and now in finance ,i can say that it is sometimes good to keep this a secret.
There is no guilt .All the same if you are in a job where returns from you is long term - say in product development , your boss is likely to give you less importqance if he knows u are writing CAT.
The decision to say or not to say should be upto the individual and he has to consider the nature of his workplace , his boss's nature etc.
RE:Cracking CAT
by Prasad on Sep 29, 2004 10:48 PM Permalink
I agree with the view of Mr.Raja. It is true that Commerce students always lag behind Engineering student regarding CAT. IIT SOMs are offering MBA to only students from Science background. Commerce students are not having such opportunity anywhere.
