Although there is a high correlation between the academic success of the students in professional studies with their entrance exam scores in the competitive exams,caution should be exercised not to stetch it too far.
Imagine an Einstein , C.V.Raman , Iacoca ,or Bill Gates preparing for IIT/IISc/CAT entrance exam.No doubt ,all these people would have flunked the "artificial" settings created by the entrance exam culture,which definitely distracts atleast few potential Scientists/Managers from "real world" work.
Also remember that millions of man hours are spent by highly qualified faculty of disparate instituitions in management or technology for preparing redundant set of questions dished out in all such , highly "competitive" ,exams.And,again, millions of man hours are spent by students across the country to answer nearly similar questions of differnt competitive exams conducted by each separate instituitions, blissfully unaware of the vital waste of human resources!
Instead it should be a good idea to have one common netwide ,nation level exam for MBA or BTech/Banking etc (IIT or Self financing Colleges) through out the country as a routine test every year.
RE:Competitive Wastage
by Mikhail Joshi on Oct 19, 2004 03:21 PM Permalink
dude..althought what u say is true upto a certain extent ...a mugging up of word lists is mandatory if u want to make it to the IIMs..coz who knows there might be 2-3 outright vocab Q's potentially gicing u 3 marks in 5 secs which just might prove to be the difference between 6 calls and 6 rejections.. If u dare to dream of IIM-A..leave no stone unturned ..MUG UP THE WORDLIST
RE:Competitive Wastage
by Sumit on Oct 15, 2004 03:24 AM Permalink
Mr. Menon, While i appreciate ur great concern for the wastage of human resources, what i could not understand is , supposing a single commomn admission test is held for all the institutes, will it not contain the so called " redundent questions" ? Secondly, while i agree that Einstein, Dhirubhai Ambani or Bill Gates did not have any professional degrees and probably could never have cleared exams like CAT, the fact still remains that if the resources are scarce, u need some kind of screening to separate the grain from the chaff. Further, u urself admit the high correlation between exam score and the success in carrer.
