Yes, that is a true picture. The education system in terms of admission test as well as course contents (at the under-graduate level) has to be improved.
iam an mba gratuate with bba as my degree and i strongly feel that engineers are more competent than other graduates and their chances of getting placed are moree so every collegelike to take engineers.
to be honest their are lot of people doing mba since they dont have any thing else to do .
and that is spoiling the reputation of mbas the market. every year 2500 mbas come and land up in bangalore and that bshows the quality of mbas.
if ur an mba u will be knowing the pain or be happy ur not an mba
RE:ur right
by Abhimanyu on Sep 26, 2004 01:55 PM
Hmmmm...Seems to be really disappointed with others doing MBA...Actually u r right!!! but please tell at the end of the day aren't we MBA's/Corporates only hyping this so called 'MBA'? And these teen-agers just get carried away with that...
In fact in abroad the minimum eligibility for doing an MBA is graduation with 2 years of work-ex...but fortunately/unfortunately thats not the case in India (its a topic for debate)
But the good thing is that today also MBA from premier institutions have a better brand equity than others...
The columnist has forgotten only b-school in india which admits only engineers,NITIE and is ranked among Top-5 bschools consistently by most of the magazines.
In the quant section of mock cat, a class 10th student scored more than me(an IIM student)! He would have been among the first 250 from the country in the actual paper, and he was just an above average student. CAT doesnt test your numerical ability, it tests your ability to choose the right questions and divide time properly. Each CAT paper has on an average 20 ridiculously simple questions in maths, and the cut-off is hardly ever over 15. You just have to choose the correct ones, thats all. Approaching the CAT paper is more of having a proper attitude. In my opinion, CAT is the best exam you can have for screening candidates for IIMs. The rigour is too high, and the abilities needed are very thorougly checked by the CAT paper.
I'm surprised as to how you can have an opinion about the CAT paper inspite of being an IIM graduate yourself. With all due apologies, it seemed to me that this article has been written to cater to the mass perception about the CAT exam that it is biased for engineers. It is these same engineers who are found to be the best by the industry.
And one more thing, the standard of discussions and interview in IIM is way higher than anywhere else.
I posted a lengthy reply to the article by Rashni and where is it!!!! Rediff tech team has created one of the FUBAR message boards I have seen ever!!! WTF
One of the problems in admitting non-engineers is that many of them routinely make conceptual errors. Examine the following statement in the article 'Engineers are trained to believe every problem in the world has a logical solution'. Nothing can be farther from truth. In fact, engineers are very clear that many problems don't even have a solution. They do understand logic and its power, however, unlike mathematicians, they aren't limited by formal systems.
Engineers do have limitations. Managers do require qualities that an enginner might not have. The real problem is to design tests and other screening procedures that measure those 'other qualities' in a fair and just manner.
Ms. Bansal's article discusses a relevant issue, but it has many conceptual errors.
