Maharashtra has the highest number of CAT (Common Admission Test) takers this year. As many as 31,040 candidates appearing for the ongoing CAT for admissions to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) reside in the state, followed by Uttar Pradesh with nearly 25,270 candidates, and Delhi with 21,507.
Of the 2.14 lakh applicants this year, the top five cities of New Delhi (21,224), Bangalore (19,553), Mumbai (16,895), Hyderabad (16,138) and Pune (13,368) constitute around 40.7% of the total registrations. Data released by IIM-Kozhikode, which is organizing the CAT 2012, states an overall increase in numbers across the categories. There is a 4.2% increase in the total number of registrations this year. The IIMs also witnessed around 8.6% growth in the number of girls registering for CAT in 2012. The number of boys taking CAT has gone up by 2.6%.
This year, there was an increase in number of candidates having two-three years of experience. As compared to last year, there is a 43% rise in the number of candidates having more work experience. The number of candidates from the non-creamy OBC, SC and ST categories has gone up too. The NC-OBC category saw a growth of 13.3%. "The shift in candidate pool in terms of gender and social balance, as well as work experience, is a positive indication that our society is becoming more aware of the opportunities available," said SSS Kumar, CAT 2012 convenor from IIM-Kozhikode.
Candidates from engineering stream, nearly 67.6% form the largest pool of CAT takers, this year too. Around 67.6% students are from the engineering stream.
Prometric, the firm that conducts the computer-based CAT, said 9,805 candidates candidates took the test on Monday. Both sessions have concluded and all candidates who started their tests have completed successfully.
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Allahabad University declares CRET-12 results
The authorities of Allahabad University have declared the results of the written tests of its Combined Research Entrance Test (CRET)-2012 for most of the subjects. The announcement of result paves way for admission to its DPhil programmes to finally start for the year.
Out of the 46 subjects for which the varsity had conducted the entrance test, it has declared the results for 34 subjects and also made them available online on its official website-http://cret2012.com. The results of a dozen subjects including Ancient History, Anthropology, Bio-informatics, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Defence and Strategic Studies, Economics, Medieval and Modern History, Business Administration, Computer Applications, Zoology and Sociology are however still awaited.
Director, Admission Cell, AU Prof BN Singh informed that the results declared are of candidates found eligible to participate in Level-3 of the CRET-2012 to be held at respective departments. Prof Singh said that no candidate has been found eligible for Level-3 for some subjects including Geology/ Applied Geology/ Geophysics, Nutritional Science and Food Technology.
"Qualified candidates are required to produce all the original documents, marksheets, caste certificates and the other documents required by the respective departments at the time of Level-3 tests for verification," he added.
As per the results, a maximum 97 candidates have been declared eligible for Level-3 in Hindi, 82 in Political Science, 50 in Sanskrit, 42 in Geography, 36 in Education, 31 in Chemistry, 25 in Botany, 23 each in Commerce and Music, 22 each in English and Philosophy, 21 each in Environmental Science and Urdu, 12 in Home Science, 11 in Psychology, 7 each in Mathematics and Physics, 5 in Law, 4 in Statistics, 3 each in Arabic, Biochemistry, as well as 2 each in Agriculture Botany, Agriculture Chemistry, Painting, Material Science, Globalization and Development Studies, Atmosphere and Ocean Studies as well as Behavioral and Cognitive Science besides 1 in Persian.
The varsity had conducted the Leverl-1 and Level-2 tests of CRET-2012 on September 9, 2012.
In the city the entrance was held in four centers- KP Inter College, Allahabad Degree College, Ewing Christian College (ECC) Higher Secondary School and Maharishi Patanjali Vidya Mandir- along with at one centre each in New Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru. Out of the registered 1958 candidates of Level-1 exam, in which UGC NET qualified students were exempted, a total of 1803 candidates had appeared while in Level-2 test, which had 2357 candidates registered has seen 2119 appearing in it.
Out of the 46 subjects for which the varsity had conducted the entrance test, it has declared the results for 34 subjects and also made them available online on its official website-http://cret2012.com. The results of a dozen subjects including Ancient History, Anthropology, Bio-informatics, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Defence and Strategic Studies, Economics, Medieval and Modern History, Business Administration, Computer Applications, Zoology and Sociology are however still awaited.
Director, Admission Cell, AU Prof BN Singh informed that the results declared are of candidates found eligible to participate in Level-3 of the CRET-2012 to be held at respective departments. Prof Singh said that no candidate has been found eligible for Level-3 for some subjects including Geology/ Applied Geology/ Geophysics, Nutritional Science and Food Technology.
"Qualified candidates are required to produce all the original documents, marksheets, caste certificates and the other documents required by the respective departments at the time of Level-3 tests for verification," he added.
As per the results, a maximum 97 candidates have been declared eligible for Level-3 in Hindi, 82 in Political Science, 50 in Sanskrit, 42 in Geography, 36 in Education, 31 in Chemistry, 25 in Botany, 23 each in Commerce and Music, 22 each in English and Philosophy, 21 each in Environmental Science and Urdu, 12 in Home Science, 11 in Psychology, 7 each in Mathematics and Physics, 5 in Law, 4 in Statistics, 3 each in Arabic, Biochemistry, as well as 2 each in Agriculture Botany, Agriculture Chemistry, Painting, Material Science, Globalization and Development Studies, Atmosphere and Ocean Studies as well as Behavioral and Cognitive Science besides 1 in Persian.
The varsity had conducted the Leverl-1 and Level-2 tests of CRET-2012 on September 9, 2012.
In the city the entrance was held in four centers- KP Inter College, Allahabad Degree College, Ewing Christian College (ECC) Higher Secondary School and Maharishi Patanjali Vidya Mandir- along with at one centre each in New Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru. Out of the registered 1958 candidates of Level-1 exam, in which UGC NET qualified students were exempted, a total of 1803 candidates had appeared while in Level-2 test, which had 2357 candidates registered has seen 2119 appearing in it.
Friday, 16 November 2012
Osmania University debars 30, 000 students from writing exams
A staggering 30,000 students have been barred from sitting in the annual undergraduate examination under Osmania University in a massive crackdown to improve extremely poor attendance across colleges in the city and send a strong message to students bunking classes, authorities said on Thursday.
About 70,000 students out of 1 lakh registered students are now sitting for the examinations which began last week and will continue till the end of November, senior officials said.
"As per strict instructions of Osmania University (OU) about 30,000 students were detained due to lack of attendance from across all under graduate colleges which are affiliated to the university," G Biskshmaiah, Controller of Examination at OU, told TOI.
"The university cannot be lenient with candidates who have just about 20% attendance," he added.
Authorities cracked the whip to bring some discipline back into the system after they found thousands of students had zero-20 % attendance throughout the academic year and did not take steps to improve their attendance.
Officials admit that it was needless to say that regular strikes at the university demanding separate state of Telangana also had a toll on attendance.
Two days of strike last week following suicide by D Santosh Kumar, a PhD aspirant in the university campus was an example of how crucial working days are lost.
Authorities also barred several student union leaders with poor attendance from sitting in the examination. Some of them spearheaded the T-issue demonstration and prevented other students from entering classes.
Several student leaders of Telangana agitation from OU's constituent colleges figured from Secunderabad PG College and Nizam College.
"We have missed classes for a political cause. The state government should intervene and allow students who were part of the agitation to appear for the examination," said S Prashant, student leader of Nizam College in Basheerbagh.
The academic year itself was short this time and the Telangana strikes made it worse by causing disruption of classes for at least 15 days.
Debarred students plan protests
Managements of top city colleges said as per the instructions of the university, they had kept a strict online log of attendance and hence the crackdown was easier as identifying the erring students was not difficult.
Students who were denied a chance to write the examination which started last week are planning to protest. About 135 students who were detained in Loyola Degree College, Alwal had submitted a memorandum to the college authorities asking them to write off their attendance shortage.
In Villa Marie College for Women, Somajiguda, 30 students who were detained have also staged a protest. The students who miss the examination this November will have to forego an academic year to clear the papers.
The management representatives said most students who were detained due to attendance shortage are those who have been bunking college regularly for personal reasons.
About 70,000 students out of 1 lakh registered students are now sitting for the examinations which began last week and will continue till the end of November, senior officials said.
"As per strict instructions of Osmania University (OU) about 30,000 students were detained due to lack of attendance from across all under graduate colleges which are affiliated to the university," G Biskshmaiah, Controller of Examination at OU, told TOI.
"The university cannot be lenient with candidates who have just about 20% attendance," he added.
Authorities cracked the whip to bring some discipline back into the system after they found thousands of students had zero-20 % attendance throughout the academic year and did not take steps to improve their attendance.
Officials admit that it was needless to say that regular strikes at the university demanding separate state of Telangana also had a toll on attendance.
Two days of strike last week following suicide by D Santosh Kumar, a PhD aspirant in the university campus was an example of how crucial working days are lost.
Authorities also barred several student union leaders with poor attendance from sitting in the examination. Some of them spearheaded the T-issue demonstration and prevented other students from entering classes.
Several student leaders of Telangana agitation from OU's constituent colleges figured from Secunderabad PG College and Nizam College.
"We have missed classes for a political cause. The state government should intervene and allow students who were part of the agitation to appear for the examination," said S Prashant, student leader of Nizam College in Basheerbagh.
The academic year itself was short this time and the Telangana strikes made it worse by causing disruption of classes for at least 15 days.
Debarred students plan protests
Managements of top city colleges said as per the instructions of the university, they had kept a strict online log of attendance and hence the crackdown was easier as identifying the erring students was not difficult.
Students who were denied a chance to write the examination which started last week are planning to protest. About 135 students who were detained in Loyola Degree College, Alwal had submitted a memorandum to the college authorities asking them to write off their attendance shortage.
In Villa Marie College for Women, Somajiguda, 30 students who were detained have also staged a protest. The students who miss the examination this November will have to forego an academic year to clear the papers.
The management representatives said most students who were detained due to attendance shortage are those who have been bunking college regularly for personal reasons.
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Friday, 9 November 2012
CAT 2012 ends
Nearly 3,000 students from city appeared for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 which came to an end on Tuesday. The examination was held at a single centre and was conducted within a window period of 21 days. The results are likely to be declared in the month of January.
According to experts, the paper was easy in initial slots of the CAT and it got tougher as it came to conclusion. The paper of data interpretation and quantitative aptitude section was tough as compared to that of logical reasoning, one of them added.
According to the organizing body Prometric, there has been a rise of five per cent in the number of candidates registering for the examination this year.
According to experts, the paper was easy in initial slots of the CAT and it got tougher as it came to conclusion. The paper of data interpretation and quantitative aptitude section was tough as compared to that of logical reasoning, one of them added.
According to the organizing body Prometric, there has been a rise of five per cent in the number of candidates registering for the examination this year.
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