190,000 students take B-school entrance test
Nov 20, 2006 - 12:38:04 AM
, Reviewed by: Priya Saxena
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'We were a little apprehensive about the exam but now I think I have done well. I hope I will be able to make it to a good management institute. I have been training hard for this test for a year now,' said Padmini Srivastava, a Delhi University graduate who wrote the exam at the Mira Model School in Janakpuri in west Delhi.
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By Indo Asian News Service,
[RxPG] New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Over 190,000 students, about 10 percent more than last year, Sunday appeared for the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted across the country by the six Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).
The tests are meant to select students for admission to the prestigious MBA programme of the IIMs. About 80 other business schools also base their admission process on CAT scores, making it one of the most competitive exams in the country.
'We had received 190,000 applications from students and we expect these students to have taken the exams as they had applied for the forms,' IIM-Ahmedabad spokesperson Ashok K. Shah told IANS on phone.
This year has seen an increase in the number of aspirants, up from around 170,000 students in 2005.
The exam was held in 23 cities, with the maximum number of students appearing in Delhi (30,000), followed by Bangalore (19,000). Around 15,000 students wrote the exam in Mumbai, 10,000 in Hyderabad, 6,500 in Ahmedabad and around 5,000 in Indore.
To meet the rush of the students in the Indian capital, the exam was conducted at 33 centres.
The students were asked to reach their centres at 9 a.m., an hour and a half before the start of the test. The duration of the exam was increased by half-an-hour this year. The exam started at 10.30 a.m. and finished at 1.00 p.m.
'We were a little apprehensive about the exam but now I think I have done well. I hope I will be able to make it to a good management institute. I have been training hard for this test for a year now,' said Padmini Srivastava, a Delhi University graduate who wrote the exam at the Mira Model School in Janakpuri in west Delhi.
Said Vikrant Gupta, a post-graduate student of history: 'I think I will score more than 70 percent marks. The half-an-hour extra that we got made me prepare better for the test mentally'.
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