Dear CAT 2014 aspirants, as well as future CAT aspirants,
Hi! I am Gautam Puri! As a facilitator and mentor of CAT Aspirants for over 20 years, I have always had your future as foremost in my thought and action.
CAT going online was a great blessing, but the way it has been conducted over the last five years and the way the results have been declared, without any transparency in the process, I personally feel CAT/IIMs have done a great disservice to many a student.
With these thoughts in mind, I have written a letter to all concerned authorities (CAT 2014 Centre) and urged them to bring about the CHANGE for good.
Kindly go through the petition that has been filed at CHANGE.ORG (https://www.change.org/p/ prof-rishikesha-t-krishnan- rishikesha-chairman-cat201 4-director-iim-indore-cat- centre-2014-bring-transpar ency-to-declaration-of-cat 2014-results) and for your own good, and for good of scores of CAT 2014 aspirants, I humbly request you to sign the petition and also share it on FB, TWITTER, Email, with your friends who have taken CAT this year. Ask them to sign too. Make sure you personally get 10 of your friends to sign.
We need to bring the change. Only you can make it happen.
Thanks for being a catalyst.
Warm wishes,
GP
Sir ,what is cut off, NIT DUGAPUR 4 MBA (through-CAT).plz reply me,,,i searched bt no information i found,so plz tell me….
Thanking you.
Krishna, the data is not available but my guess is that it will be in the region of 75-80%ile
Can you give an idea that by when the CL Cat percentile predictor would give percentiles based on the 22nd nov too..?? Currently it is giving percentiles as per 16th nov only
Prashant, it was updated on Friday evening, please check again for your normalised scores and percentiles.
Sir I want to know I solved total 36 question out of 27 question are true ,rest 9 Question i Dont know is it true or not ,so can u tell me what % i have In CAT 2014.plz reply me.
Krishna, please enter this data along with your slot details in the Percentile Predictor for an estimate of your percentile.
Sir there used to be an app last year for XAT DM, is it still available ?
Anand, it is not available.
Sir then from where should we practise DM ?
Anandi, past XAT papers are the best source of questions for DM.
Hello sir,
Could you please suggest me the institutes where I should apply .
My CL predicted percentile is 92-93.
Ashish, please check the B school advisor at http://www.careerlauncher.com/cat/ it will recommend institutes based on your predicted percentile.
Hello Sir
Great Initiative! I will also sign the petition. Sir, I have a question regarding admissions. I have an experience of 2 years as a software engineer. I gave CAT today and expecting a score between 80-90 percentile. I am planning to apply for NIRMA, BIM, TAPMI.. I will also be giving SNAP and seeking SCIT college.. Is my approach correct ? Please advise.
Chandeep, these institutes are fine but in case of SNAP target SIBM Pune/Bangalore, SCMHRD, SIIB. Let SITM, SCIT and SICSR be you back up options.
Dear GP Sir ,I am a Cl student
Sir, can I have your Email Id as I wanted to discuss regarding NMAT examination urgently .
Thank you
Arush, it is gp@careerlauncher.com
sir,
i m expecting to get 90 percentile in cat..which colleges i should apply …plz help me sir i m confused.
give me some idea about irma.
Nilesh, Please check the B School Advisory for the institutes that you should be applying to.
IRMA is a very good institute but it specialises in Rural Management and you should apply to it only if you are interested in the area.
Hello GP sir 🙂
your blogposts were the framework for my preparation for CAT.. Thanks a tonn sir 🙂 I have signed the petition and informed all my friends about the same 🙂
Sir, I could deciphered that QA, Decision Making and VA of XAT require some extra practise and they are quite different from CAT..
so sir which book or material should I refer for DM QA and VA to get XAT type questions to have a better practise of it??
Awaiting for your response
thanks in Advance sir 🙂
Shubham, the best source of DM is past XAT papers. Will be publishing a post on XAT in the next 3-4 days.
thankyou sir 🙂
Sir,
For snap, which one will be better option to choose, sibm-p or scmhrd..? little bit confused..
Abhilesh, both are equally good but SIBM Pune is the older one and is considered marginally better.
Thankyou Sir…
Dear Sir,
It great to see this petition backed by solid facts. However, with the utmost respect I would like to say that it seems that this is just clever marketing given the timing of CL coming out with this petition and ‘supporting’ students. Previous CAT exams conducted by Prometric, especially CAT 2013 have been a sham. 55 percentile for zero attempts and ST candidates can get admission in IIM-A with 38 percentile. The entire process is laughable, archaic, biased, cryptic and baseless.
There was no support for the candidates who suffered last year. CL should have thought about the candidates and taken up the matter with the concerned authorities and maybe even boycotted the CAT exam to make them sit up and take notice. You have the power, presence and the ability to make a difference. Think of the deserving candidates who had dropped a year and didn’t make it to any good B-school.
CL and other coaching institutes did nothing then and there is no point doing anything now since it’s too late. Its a sham and we students end up being the scapegoats.
Have a great day!
Regards,
Vikram
GP Sir, your blogs were awesome 🙂 They help a lot 🙂 We have completed CAT (And the rest will be completing tmrw) – Please give a blogpost on the next big thing – S N A P – Please include –
1. Cutoff marks ( out of 180) and percentiles (out 0f 100) for various colleges under Symbosis.
2. Preparation Strategy
3. GK tips – Important areas to concentrate
4. Etc.,
Thank u 🙂
Sumakesh, SNAP and XAT blogs will be published next week.
Hello GP sir,
I must say thats a very commendable thing that you have started.
Glad to be a CLite. I will definitely sign in and request others to do as well.
Once again commendable effort sir…applause. Feeling great after signing in..
Thankyou…
Gejo Sir & Go Sir
I will inform my friends regarding the petition.
Sir I hav a request , can u write a blog how to prepare for XAT in the next 40 days, as my cat was disaster,Xat is my only hope to study in the top notch b school.
Ankur, thanks for informing your friends about the petition.
Will be releasing a post on XAT next week.