The recent weeks have been witness to a big shake up in the MBA entrance exam space. Major MBA entrance exams have been scrapped -- MICAT entrance exam by MICA, JMET entrance exam by the Department of Management Studies of IITs, and the big entrance exam of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi.
The common factor in these developments is that these institutions have now adopted CAT for selecting candidates for admissions process for 2012 and beyond.
According to experts these national institutions have switched to CAT in view of the unnecessary burden on themselves of executing a national level entrance exam. According to media reports these institutions felt themselves severely strained by the burden of the exams conducted.
The CAT exam is without doubt becoming a super MBA entrance exam with these developments. To get the reactions from the MBA education fraternity on the rise of CAT, MBAUniverse.com has raised the question: ‘With many MBA entrance exams getting scrapped, it is now time for CAT to become the sole national level MBA entrance exam’ in its Have Your Say section.
According to a MBAUniverse.com poll which was conducted few months back many respondents had expressed that a common entrance exam across government and private B-schools will certainly benefit the MBA aspirants.
Presently many aspirants are sometimes forced to miss a few entrance exams due to clash of dates and also the amount of travel to cities in regular intervals to give the different entrance exams is not possible for them. Also with many exams, the cost of applying to these exams also increases for MBA aspirants.
But on the other side of the coin the respondents to the poll had also expressed that depending solely on one common entrance exam can be a very high stake game. If you fail there, you fail!
What is your view, should CAT be elevated to become the sole national level MBA entrance exam. Have your say.
Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more polls and related features.
