It seems entrance examinations in India and glitches go hand in hand. While the CAT exams were marred by technical snags, the printing error in IIT-JEE paper left IIT aspirants in a tizzy. Education system in India is degrading and an apt example would be what happened with India’s top engineering (IIT) and management brands(IIM).
Common Admission Test (CAT) servers crashed across all centers in India. Nearly 250,000 students appeared for the test, seven IIMs and about 150 top B-schools base their admissions on CAT scores with the hope to speed up the process for the institutes. The scores of this test was the sole medium to get calls from reputed management institute . After the results got out many students complained about goof-up in the results while many were happy with their absolute percentile. Institute like IMI, MICA,SP Jain, Great lakes all have planned to conduct their own internal tests during GD-PI to remove ambiguity about the scores .
More than 4.72 lakh students appeared for IIT-Joint Entrance Exams on April 11th to compete for 10,000 seats in prestigious IITs. There were 82,000 more number of candidates who took the test than compared to the last year. However, there were several goof ups which left students confused. The order of subjects on the question paper didn’t match the sequence on the answers sheets. While the question paper had the first 28 questions from physics, followed by an equal number of questions from chemistry and maths, the ORS sheet (objective response sheet) had a different sequence of subjects. This confusion added to students’ woes, and it was only after assurance given by IIT authorities that all is well and that students need to ignore the subject heads on the ORS sheets and go by the question numbers that students resumed with answering their papers.
The results of CAT exam has already come & student are preparing for next round of GD-PI whereas it is time to speculate whether the current selection process for IIT is a fool-proof one?
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