Another CAT, another disappointment, another bad day, and another period of deep introspection. This year the CAT exam was different in many ways. Firstly it had only 75 questions. A very very easy quant section (comprising 25 questions of course) was another surprising feature. But the deadliest of the sections was the english one - though frankly I, unlike most other examinees, was mostly clear with my answer choices. I got most of them wrong though...haha...23 attempts, 16 wrong in english as per the answer key posted online by TIME.
It's more than 48 hours and still even the experts from various coachings are not unanimous about the answers. Just got news that someone filed a Public Interest Litigation under the Right to Information Act asking the IIMs to publish the answer-key in papers. That does make sense. Every year there have been a few questions whose answers have been a point of great discussion and without a final agreement on which is the correct one. And this year, probably, there are more such questions than ever before - at least in English. (Well, wonder whether the last statement was a Fact, Inference or Judgement!!! :P )
After 3 attempts at "belling" the CAT and another when the paper leaked in 2003-04 (didn't do any good in that one as well), I am fed up of this exam. I always get screwed up in english. Sala decent bol leta hoon...itna kaafi nahi hai kya? What do they want...Lit-Studs? So that they create more of those painful "I'm an MBA - I know everything" kind of guys, who don't know what they talk...make a contraption out of their speeches, so that nobody questions them? A few are good, of course...but most of them - line mein khada karke - DHISHKAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
The traditional Indian mindset of looking for stamps and "thappaas" is still very much there - an IIT Stamp, an IIM Stamp, and the latest - an ISB Stamp - which is whoppingly costly for no good reason. Though our BSchools produce a lot of output, it's no wonder that they still don't produce many entrepreneurs. Lots of grads from even the premier Indian BSchools, the current students and even the aspirants still see MBA as just a licence (a la Licence Raj) for a high-salary job. It is understandable, for capitalism is new in India, and old habits die hard. It's too early to expect to see candidates who don't bluff but have genuine reasons to do MBA, who don't mug up numbers and simply blurt - “IT Industry constitutes x % of our GDP” - but who have a vision that defines the future...“thought leaders” as some people call them...at least, we need “thinking leaders”...seriously.
It's more than 48 hours and still even the experts from various coachings are not unanimous about the answers. Just got news that someone filed a Public Interest Litigation under the Right to Information Act asking the IIMs to publish the answer-key in papers. That does make sense. Every year there have been a few questions whose answers have been a point of great discussion and without a final agreement on which is the correct one. And this year, probably, there are more such questions than ever before - at least in English. (Well, wonder whether the last statement was a Fact, Inference or Judgement!!! :P )
After 3 attempts at "belling" the CAT and another when the paper leaked in 2003-04 (didn't do any good in that one as well), I am fed up of this exam. I always get screwed up in english. Sala decent bol leta hoon...itna kaafi nahi hai kya? What do they want...Lit-Studs? So that they create more of those painful "I'm an MBA - I know everything" kind of guys, who don't know what they talk...make a contraption out of their speeches, so that nobody questions them? A few are good, of course...but most of them - line mein khada karke - DHISHKAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
The traditional Indian mindset of looking for stamps and "thappaas" is still very much there - an IIT Stamp, an IIM Stamp, and the latest - an ISB Stamp - which is whoppingly costly for no good reason. Though our BSchools produce a lot of output, it's no wonder that they still don't produce many entrepreneurs. Lots of grads from even the premier Indian BSchools, the current students and even the aspirants still see MBA as just a licence (a la Licence Raj) for a high-salary job. It is understandable, for capitalism is new in India, and old habits die hard. It's too early to expect to see candidates who don't bluff but have genuine reasons to do MBA, who don't mug up numbers and simply blurt - “IT Industry constitutes x % of our GDP” - but who have a vision that defines the future...“thought leaders” as some people call them...at least, we need “thinking leaders”...seriously.
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