CAT is now a CAT!

The Common Admission Test (CAT) will now be a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT). I totally support this move and am glad the IIMs did it. But in addition to it, I'd suggest, that they give more weightage to work-experience, and consider applications on all parameters instead of just the CAT score for the initial shortlist. They do assign weightages to various parameters and have complicated formulas to evaluate applications, but that is generally for the final offers, where your GD and PI scores also matter. But for the inital shortlist, i.e., for GD-PI, a high CAT score is generally a must. I believe that on the one hand, MBA does not make sense without having worked and experienced the real Business world. On the other hand, CAT scores and the sectional cut-offs, I think, are not the right criteria to judge people's capabilities to become good managers or leaders. IIM Lucknow is the only one among the IIMs to have taken steps in this direction. Right now, both the batches at IIML have a very high average work-ex by IIMs' standards - somewhere between 3 and 4 years, which is neither too high nor too low for a 2-year MBA, and almost perfect for the guys, and the few girls, to appreciate the course content of the program. Right now, IIML has arguably the best people in it (and I am one of them!) among all the IIMs and of course all the B-Schools of India, as far as the 2-year MBA programs are concerned.