Reservation – why, its achievement and its failure to deliver

Well before we slam the politicians and all let’s look in to the past and observe why was the reservations done in the first place and its present impact.

After a hectic time of few weeks, CAT aspirants got some to show their exasperation against the imprecision of questions in CAT 2006. After CAT many students might not have got enough time to properly analyze the paper due to IRMA and IIFT, both scheduled just one week after CAT. Now IIFT is over and the next scheduled exam JMET is on 10th December , giving all the mba aspirants some much needed time to think about what went wrong in CAT.

CAT 2006 results are out and all the IIMs have published the short listed candidates for next round of Group Discussion and Interviews. Guys have out performed gals in all departments of CAT 2006. For IIMB the percentage of gals who are short listed for GD/PI is only 17.87 % out of the applied 24.7% .The scenario is almost same for all the other IIMs. The resistance against OBC reservation on the account that many will get a chance to study in IIMs with out scoring at per with general candidates is confirmed wrong.

Students who took the Common Admission Test this year are now showing their annoyance over the errors in the question papers. Few days back students in delhi went on a candlelight march on this issue and now some students in lucknow has requested the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to look into the matter. Students have asked the IIMs to publicly announce the errors in CAT and the action taken to neutralize the effect under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. CAT and the action taken to neutralize the effect under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.