Times of India: Indore: Saturday,
March 08, 2014.
Alleging
large-scale irregularities in Common Admission Test (CAT) for admission to 13
Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), yet another group of IIM aspirants from
Indore has sought a stay on the entire admission process this year.
Accepting
their writ petition, a double bench of Madhya Pradesh high court on Thursday
issued notices to all 13 IIMs. Notices were also served on coordination of
committee for CAT 2013 and Prometric Testing, the partner agency of the test.
The aggrieved
students, Yash Garg and Purvi Manot filed the fresh petition challenging the
scaling and grading method of students. They also challenged the non-disclosure
of raw scores under RTI and an agreement between IIM and Prometric which
prevents disclosure of row scores and procedure adopted for allotment of the
marks.
Counsellor
for the students, Valmik Sakargayen said, "The students have alleged
large-scale irregularities in scoring and grading. A student, Gautam Puri did
not attempt any of the questions and scored 50 percentile. As such, the
petitioners have appealed to set up a high-level committee to probe the
irregularities and reserve seats for the petitioner in any of the IIMs."
CAT is first
step for joining any of the IIMs in the country. After a 20-day exercise at 40
centres that began on October 16 last year, the CAT results were published on
January 14. Thousands of students had cried foul over the scaling and grading
process and had demanded revaluation. However, the demand was turned down by
IIM-Indore which was the organizer of CAT-2013. A petition was filed by IIM
aspirants Rutvij Waze and Vikram Singh, following which the HC had issued
similar notices to the IIMs on February 18.
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