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[embedded image] Guess who is who? Rupali and Sonali (L to R)Not many of you would have the inclination to reject an offer from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore if that's the best option you have. However, Rupali Jain, who has converted her IIM-B call, is willing to give up the seat if her twin sister Sona...

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IIM Indore has 65% freshers while IIM Rohtak has 90% with...

11 Feb

[embedded image] Pic: Flickr The Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIMI) has 65% freshers in its 2012-2014 batch. This figure is the highest among all the Indian Institutes of Management and other top schools this year. What becomes incidental is that the number of work-ex is about 35%. While IIMI decided to go wi...

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abhidutz @ashutoshjuve u must be a fresher.!. 04 Jan.

thedestint This debate is very disheartening to me , now I feel guil.... 11 Feb.

IIM Indore has 65% freshers while IIM Rohtak has 90% with work-ex. What's going on?

by Lajwanti D'Souza in IIM Indore, IIMA, freshers, work-ex, IIMK, IIM Trichy,

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thedestint This debate is very disheartening to me , now I feel guilty for having wasted my dad's 40k by joining a coaching institute to prepare for CAT '13. I'm a fresher without an exceptional grad score( a 7/10 ) and even if I manage a 100percentile in CAT , my chances of being selected by IIMs are gonna be next to nil , reason being gender diversity and non-engg stuff and preferance to people with >2 year work ex.
The funny part is that IIMs only consider work ex of a "good" company , and good companies do not come for placements in average colleges (non A+ colleges) . So, the guys who weren't able to get into the 'oh so great' undergrad colleges are automatically out of the race , seems to me that the super seniors have made such rules deliberately so that only the IIT/SRCC/NIT crowd gets to go into IIMs in spite a poor CAT. Isn't this bias on its peak? If you are giving a -2 to engineers in Stage-2 just 'cos they are assumed to be good in quant , then shouldn't you deduce -2 from SRCC guys too 'cos they are good in Verbal/DI.

Also ,IIMs don't have a gpa normalisation , that means a candidate who has scored a 7/10 gpa from a stringent university is treated as same as a candidate who has a 7/10 from a south Indian/lenient university (no offense to south-Indian folks but this is a known fact to everybody ).
Another thing that I am not very comfortable with is CAT , I mean what is the point of conducting a CAT if past scores are given a weightage way more than the tough nut
, I know people who have a >9/10 gpa in their college score 85%ile-90%ile in CAT even in multiple attempts and 6.8-7.5/10 guys from the same college score a 99+%ile in their first attempt. Grades do not reflect a candidate's true ability, but aptitude tests such as CAT do. A nerd can get an 8.5/10 gpa by mugging stuff throughout the sem and by having no social life at all , so would you call such a person better than a guy who is :
1.academically average (he's a kid , he's immature , he's overconfident but he's smart)
2.communicative , has a life outside the book world
3.On an evolving stage , he wasn't aware of the fact that IIMs demand an 8.5 gpa else he too would've studied in his college ,
shouldn't these points be considered by the IIMs too (esp IIM A,B, *Shillong* ) ??

Ending on a high note though , I'm gonna keep trying until I'm shortlisted in a good management institute , not just the IIMs , anything good would do.
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XAT 2013 on Jan 6: It will be a 2.5 hour exam, more quest...

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[embedded image] The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur which owns and conducts the XAT (Xavier Admission Test) is planning some surprises this year. According to sources at XLRI, while some changes have been finalised, some are still at the discussion stage. The test will be held on January 6,...

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For the first time 100 women in one batch at IIM Bangalore

03 Jul '12

[embedded image] Photo Credit Flickr For the first time, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has registered a count of 100 women in its 2012-2014 batch. While it works to just around 26 % (batch size being 377), lower than what other IIMs like (IIM Shillong and IIM Kozhikode have known to admit), it is an achievem...

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bitsg Such happenings are turning me into a misogynist.. 16 Jul '12.