The Truth behind Entrance Exams!!
Author: Kartik Raichura, Founder, ManagementParadise.com
You name a career and the first thing that comes to your mind is entrance exams. Be it MBA, MMS, MBBS or any masters degree, you first have to clear a entrance exam. If that wasn’t enough, even at bachelor’s level, courses like BMS and BMM have a pre requisite that you clear entrance exams. The irony of the situation is that, so much so is the hype of entrance exams that even coaching classes make it a point to take a mock entrance exam before allowing a student to join their coaching classes.
What I fail to understand is..
What the hell is the reason to take such entrance exams??
Does it guarantee success??
Does it make your learning process in a B school any easier??
Does a high percentile mean that the person with a low percentile is in any way less competent?
I know Vada paun sellers who make more money than some people who graduated from IIM’s.
How are entrance exams any way related to practical thinking?
How does a good score in Math guarantee good decision making??
I have a laptop which can show me charts of the company and if not that I have a calculator which can tell me the longest of the multiplications in milliseconds.
Isn’t Management about smart work and not hard work??
If I can’t make out the meaning of few reaaaaalllllly long words in English, then does it make me a bad manager? Or does a bad reasoning ability between relations of my dad’s father’s grandfather’s brothers’ aunt in law make any difference in how I take key decisions of the company??
I and a friend of mine were having a heated discussion about this in a bus and we were fighting Cats and dogs.
My points are simple. I am of the opinion that every student should have access to any college they want to get into. It becomes the duty of the institute in which they study to make the young minds elite, to give food for thought and to ignite their minds with fuel of knowledge. As far as I know, there are enough institutes and enough seats so as to accommodate all the students who appear for entrance exams.
Why pioneer only IIM's or JBIMS or NMIMS?? Why can’t the government put in special efforts to facilitate the best of the education to every aspiring management student??
Doesn’t it increase the gap of potential managers when only people with high percentile get the best of the education and the rest aspiring ones have to wait for another year in the hope of getting into a good b school?
The ones who cannot afford to give the entrance exams again, suppress their desire and take up a job. Isn’t that as good as loosing a entrepreneur or a future corporate identity who could’ve made name for the county in the years to come??
There are too many questions and too many whys and ifs and buts in this article, but it does sound promising. India is a hub for managerial talent and the figures of number of people taking CAT and other entrance exams is an indicator of how many people if given the opportunity wish to turn the fate of India.
Concluding this article real quick, I am of the opinion that the govt should stop taxing students with entrance exams, form fees, Gd, pi and what not, take efforts to make all the institutes as good as IIMs and tap this booming educational sector which can take India to new heights.
Author: Kartik Raichura, Founder, ManagementParadise.com
You name a career and the first thing that comes to your mind is entrance exams. Be it MBA, MMS, MBBS or any masters degree, you first have to clear a entrance exam. If that wasn’t enough, even at bachelor’s level, courses like BMS and BMM have a pre requisite that you clear entrance exams. The irony of the situation is that, so much so is the hype of entrance exams that even coaching classes make it a point to take a mock entrance exam before allowing a student to join their coaching classes.
What I fail to understand is..
What the hell is the reason to take such entrance exams??
Does it guarantee success??
Does it make your learning process in a B school any easier??
Does a high percentile mean that the person with a low percentile is in any way less competent?
I know Vada paun sellers who make more money than some people who graduated from IIM’s.
How are entrance exams any way related to practical thinking?
How does a good score in Math guarantee good decision making??
I have a laptop which can show me charts of the company and if not that I have a calculator which can tell me the longest of the multiplications in milliseconds.
Isn’t Management about smart work and not hard work??
If I can’t make out the meaning of few reaaaaalllllly long words in English, then does it make me a bad manager? Or does a bad reasoning ability between relations of my dad’s father’s grandfather’s brothers’ aunt in law make any difference in how I take key decisions of the company??
I and a friend of mine were having a heated discussion about this in a bus and we were fighting Cats and dogs.
My points are simple. I am of the opinion that every student should have access to any college they want to get into. It becomes the duty of the institute in which they study to make the young minds elite, to give food for thought and to ignite their minds with fuel of knowledge. As far as I know, there are enough institutes and enough seats so as to accommodate all the students who appear for entrance exams.
Why pioneer only IIM's or JBIMS or NMIMS?? Why can’t the government put in special efforts to facilitate the best of the education to every aspiring management student??
Doesn’t it increase the gap of potential managers when only people with high percentile get the best of the education and the rest aspiring ones have to wait for another year in the hope of getting into a good b school?
The ones who cannot afford to give the entrance exams again, suppress their desire and take up a job. Isn’t that as good as loosing a entrepreneur or a future corporate identity who could’ve made name for the county in the years to come??
There are too many questions and too many whys and ifs and buts in this article, but it does sound promising. India is a hub for managerial talent and the figures of number of people taking CAT and other entrance exams is an indicator of how many people if given the opportunity wish to turn the fate of India.
Concluding this article real quick, I am of the opinion that the govt should stop taxing students with entrance exams, form fees, Gd, pi and what not, take efforts to make all the institutes as good as IIMs and tap this booming educational sector which can take India to new heights.
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