CAT results 2010 announced, IIM CAT 2009, CATIIM

CAT Results has been announced today. The IIM CAT is most coveted entrance examination for the B school admission in India in IIM / Indian Institute of Management and other leading B Schools / MBA colleges of India. Many colleges and institutes are offering admission through CAT. The CAT 2009 and 2010 was conducted by the IIMs and Prometric thats why people are also looking fir the Prometric CAT results. The CAT exam as conducted first time Online and more than 2 lakh students appeared for the CAT examination. Candidates qualifying in CAT online exam will be called for the personal interview and GD / Group Discussion in various IIM as they have shortlisted the candidates for PI/ GD. IIM Ranchi is the news member in the league of IIM and people are also looking for the IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Shillong. Though the other Indian Institute of Management like IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode are also among the favorite of students who appeared in the examination of Online CAT 2010.

CAT results declaration deferred to Feb end

The results of Common Admission Test(CAT)-2009 have been deferred to February end, an official statement from convenor of CAT- 2009 at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) said here today. Earlier, as per the convenor of CAT, the results of admission test were supposed to be declared by this week. However, the convenor of CAT has not specified any reasons for delay, causing large scale inconvenience to the B-School aspirants across the country.

The students are already late in seeking admissions due to delayed conduction of CAT-2009, which was marred by technical glitches in first phase, and subsequently had to be re-conducted for candidates who faced problems in exam.

Out of the 2.41 lakh students who applied for CAT-2009 over 2.15 lakh students appeared for the admission test that concluded on January 31 last. Pan-India besides eight IIMs, there are over 120 non-member IIM, management schools registered with CAT, which use the CAT score as criteria for granting admissions.

Govt sets up panel to improve IIT-JEE

The government today set up a committee to suggest reforms in the IIT entrance examination but did not take any decision on the proposed fee hike in the elite institutes. At a brainstorming session on IITs, chaired by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, a committee was set up under IIT Kharagpur Director Prof Damodar Acharya to study the existing JEE structure and suggest improvement in it.

The committee will submit its report in three months, a Human Resource Development Ministry official said. It is expected to suggest on how to consider the Class XII marks of students while preparing the cut-off for the admission into these 15 elite institutes.

At present, the IITs are taking students on the basis of cut-off prepared in view of the marks scored by students in IIT Joint Entrance Examination. Consideration of Class XII marks in the cut-off would ensure that meritorious students get into the IIT stream.

The meeting, attended by the IIT directors and chairmen, however, did not take any decision on the proposal to increase the tuition fee of students to make the institutes self-sufficient.

Sibal suggested that as the government is planning to set up a Higher Education Funding Corporation, which would provide assistance to poor students, the proposal on fee hike would be discussed after the corporation is set up.

IIT Kanpur had prepared a detailed proposal on hiking the tuition fee. At present, BTech students are paying Rs 50,000 per year as fee. The proposal suggested increasing the fee to Rs four lakh per annum over a period of ten years.

At the last meeting of IIT Council, the apex body to decide on IIT matters, discussions were held on giving more weightage to marks obtained in school-leaving examinations while selecting students.

At today's meeting, Sibal asked the IITs to indicate in four weeks about the specialised area they want to focus on to emerge as global giants in that area by 2020, the official said.

The new IITs will consider their roadmaps in two months time. The IITs will give the roadmap on how to attract world-class faculty from within and outside the country to meet the faculty shortage. The IITs are suffering from about 30 per cent faculty shortage.

The institutes will also suggest how to expand their infrastructure incrementally. A committee under Prof Anand Krishnan was set up to study this issue and give recommendations.

Suggestions were also made to have a structured credit transfer system in the IITs to enable students of IITs to migrate to other institutes.

Sibal asked the IITs to explore setting up a secretariat of IITs for their marketing.

The government also set up a separate committee under IIT Guwahati Director Prof Gautam Baruah to suggest improvement in the governance in the IITs, the official said.

This committee will study the relationship of IITs with the government and suggest how to have better correlation.

Sibal asked the IITs how they could increase their linkages to school children and with technical institutions and universities.