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Even as lakhs of MBA aspirants are getting ready to appear for the common admission test (CAT) conducted by the various Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) on November 16, it will also include several faculty members from various coaching centres who take the test every year in a bid to understand its nuances.
“This year will probably be my eighth or ninth time. Every year, there’s a reasonable amount of change in the individual sections or in the paper pattern itself. Our aim is to understand how the patterns are changing and explain to the students what could have been a fairly good method of attempting it,” said Amit Deshmukh, regional manager (Western India) at Career Launcher, a coaching centre.
Deshmukh explained that the idea behind taking the exam is to gauge what the student is going through, see the changes and accordingly moderate or change the teaching methodologies and the materials. “And considering that it’s one of the most unpredictable of all entrance tests, we are as excited as the students, and yes, we do get the butterflies,” said Deshmukh.
Faculty members across CAT training institutes said that the purpose is to solve the paper within the given time period and subsequently give students an analysis of what to expect in terms of scores and cut-offs.
“We try to understand what a normal student would have faced in terms of pressure. The next step is to analyse it and give students an understanding of where they stand,” said ARKS Srinivas, director, Triumphant Institute of Management Education or TIME-Mumbai (a coaching centre).
Amol Kokate, a faculty member at TIME, said that the most important reason for him is to get a “feel” of the paper.
Nandkumar Bhujbal, head-marketing (Mumbai) at Career Launcher, said, “We have to constantly brush our skills. Also, in the first 5-10 minutes, we prepare a strategy.
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Mihika Basu
