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CAT wrong'uns
The CAT is out and the premier IIMs have got their ABCs wrong - at least in two questions in the quantitative aptitude section and one in verbal ability.
Stumped by the wrong'uns, students were left scratching their heads to decipher them to get to a non-existent answer.
The mistakes were pointed out by faculty of coaching institutes who also took the examination.
In the 333 series, wrong data was given for question no. 69 in the quantitative aptitude section or in other words there was no right answer given.
While the other three sets of question paper series— 111, 222 and 444 — had all the right dates, in the 333 series, the date September 28 was either missing in some papers or had been misprinted as September 8, making it impossible to solve the question, said Vimlesh Shukla, academic head of Career Launcher, who also took the examination.
The other mistake in quantitative aptitude was in the 222 series involving a question about an airline having a free luggage allowance.
This had two sub questions but the right answer to one of these sub questions was not mentioned, said Time coaching centre director P Vishwanath.
While in series 444, question no. 30 in the reading comprehension section had students chewing their nails. Instead of five answers as was the norm in all questions, there were only three and without knowing all the possible answers, the candidates could not have checked on the "most probable".
Such mistakes mean the IIMs might chose to repeal these questions and not consider them in any of the question paper series during final evaluation.
Senior faculty have predicted the cut-offs in quantitative aptitude could be anywhere between 30 and 42 marks, while in date interpretation in the range of 26 to 33 marks and in verbal ability between 24 and 32 marks.
Mistakes apart, the percentile scoring practised by CAT does not reveal the actual marks scored by aspirants. Some candidates even asked for photocopies of their OMR sheets.
" We do not know how the cut-offs are calculated. By giving us OMR photocopies, the IIMs will help us in not repeating mistakes," said Ashwin Rajan, a computer graduate who attempted CAT for the second time this year.
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