In a press release issued by Prometric, the testing agency has notified that in view of the growing concern of candidates regarding their evaluation and CAT scores, it has released the process and development of scoring of CAT 2009. The process in detail can be viewed online here. It is also available online and as a pdf on the CAT website: catiim.in
Soumitra Roy, Managing director, Prometric-India said,”We have reviewed the test scoring and we are completely confident that the results are appropriately distributed across the population, and that the test performed well within international standards. We are absolutely confident that the scores and rankings are accurate.”
The press release also mentioned that Prometric will answer candidate queries through its candidate care center.
NMAT 2010 RESULTS ARE OUT:
NMAT 2010 Results has been declared today (2nd March, 2010). It was conducted from January 30, 2010 to February 8, and 2010 for admissions into Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
The NMAT-2010 for the first time was transformed from paper-and-pencil to a computer based test (CBT).
NMAT 2010 was held for 120 minutes and consisted of 120 questions. The questions were multiple choice types where the candidate had to select one of the correct answers. The sections in the NMAT-2010 were Quantitative Ability, Language Skills and Logical Reasoning.
NMAT-2010 was delivered across 19 locations in India, as well as international locations across the world.
The NMAT 2010 exam is conducted for admission in the following MBA programs
MBA Core
MBA (Pharmaceuticals Management)
MBA (Actuarial science)
MBA (Capital Markets)
MBA (Banking)
MBA (Part - Time)
Ph.D Program in Management
EPGDBM
The final merit list for NMAT 2010 will be prepared on the basis of the NMAT Score, Written Test marks (as applicable), Group Discussion, Personal Interview, Presentation (as applicable) and work experience.
IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow has announces the shortlisted candidates.
IIM Lucknow has come up with some admission policies. They will use multiple parameters, viz. academic performance in secondary school, higher secondary school, and graduate programmes in addition to the candidate’s absolute scores in CAT to judge the suitability of candidates for PGP. Work experience, after graduation, if any, is also given due weightage in the PGP admissions process. Evaluation by multiple criteria is also consistent with IIML’s analysis of industry requirements.
The process that is being adopted for selecting the promising students for PGP at IIML for the year 2010 involves two stages. Stage–1 applies to all eligible candidates who have appeared for CAT–2009 to determine those qualifying candidates who will be called for Stage–2.
Stage-2 of the admissions process involves the assessment of the candidate by an interview panel, which will conduct Written Ability Test (of 15 minutes duration), Group Discussion (on a given topic for 20 minutes), and Personal Interview.
Check here for the List of Shortlisted Candidates of IIM Calcutta
Check here for the List of Shortlisted Candidates of IIM Lucknow
The list for the shortlisted candidates for IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Ranchi will be available soon.
