[ideacrash]

Originally Posted by gvi.shekar

The SC upholds 27% reservation for OBC ignoring the creamy layer :( :(

Dont know how safe it is now to wait for another year, with only 73% seats for the Open category the competition just got tougher, if it was not tough enough :(
And with CAT going online from 2009, what is the world coming to...

SC upholds OBC quota, keeps creamy layer out

i dont think thats gonna increase the competation in the long run as they would increase the number of seats . for example lets assume we have only 100 seats now , later may be after 2-3years it would become 127 .

And as a matter of fact i dont think the quality of students would reduce , as there are enough people from the OBC who would score more than 99%ile to fill those 27%.

with or without reservation its been always tuff( as the ratio of number of people to number of seats is huge). These are just number games played by these politicians.

[gvi.shekar]

Originally Posted by ideacrash

i dont think thats gonna increase the competation in the long run as they would increase the number of seats . for example lets assume we have only 100 seats now , later may be after 2-3years it would become 127 .

And as a matter of fact i dont think the quality of students would reduce , as there are enough people from the OBC who would score more than 99%ile to fill those 27%.

with or without reservation its been always tuff( as the ratio of number of people to number of seats is huge). These are just number games played by these politicians.

The 27.5% is only for the OBCs.
Following the judgement 49. 5 percent of the seats in higher educational institutes would be reserved. The Schedule Castes (SCs) and Schedule Tribes (STs) enjoy a 22.5 per cent reservation. While the SCs have 15 per cent reservation, for the STs it is 7.5 per cent.

50% reservation on the basis of caste...60 years after independence and India is still fighting a stupid civil war and holding us, the students, hostage...

Sorry, i guess this thread is not to vent these feelings, but couldn't help it

[varunspidey]

It's a sad sad day........if the pressures of results and getting into the IIM's weren't enough now they throw this at us........what this means is the so called upper caste people like me will have to look for options abroad for an MBA.....any sensible person would do the same because as it is the competition here is unparalleled and now this will make things worse....who r casteist the people of India or these politicians who know everything about every caste,sub caste, etc? I mean when I hear in the news that this minority community named so and so has been brought under the quota umbrella by the government, I am like who are they I have never heard of this community?
If they have such in depth knowledge about these things then its them who should be blamed for digging up old graves and bringing back dead issues like the caste system to life.

[manishb8230]

hi guys,

please anyone can tell me that whether IIM will differ in giving calls for the ppl who have a gap in their graduation considering they have scored 99+ with all the sectional cut offs...unfortunately i myself have a 2 yrs gap in my graduation (B.E Computer)...although now i have around 30 months of exp in the software industry till this date...as far as my knowledge goes only IIM B and L stress more on past acads but rest of the IIM calls are mostly dependent on your CAT scores...
am i right, if not then please shed some light on this one...
thanks in advance

[gvi.shekar]

Originally Posted by manishb8230

hi guys,

please anyone can tell me that whether IIM will differ in giving calls for the ppl who have a gap in their graduation considering they have scored 99+ with all the sectional cut offs...unfortunately i myself have a 2 yrs gap in my graduation (B.E Computer)...although now i have around 30 months of exp in the software industry till this date...as far as my knowledge goes only IIM B and L stress more on past acads but rest of the IIM calls are mostly dependent on your CAT scores...
am i right, if not then please shed some light on this one...
thanks in advance

If you score a 99+ in all sections you will have a 100 overall

I dont think the gap should be a problem. Just have a damn good explanation ready, they will sure grill you on it in your PI

all the best

[manishb8230]

hey thanks a lot buddy...atleast now i can focus only on CAT and nothing for time being...n yeah 99+ in all sections you will have a 100 overall ...although i was considering 99+ as my overall score...

[avinav2712]

Originally Posted by manishb8230

hi guys,

please anyone can tell me that whether IIM will differ in giving calls for the ppl who have a gap in their graduation considering they have scored 99+ with all the sectional cut offs...unfortunately i myself have a 2 yrs gap in my graduation (B.E Computer)...although now i have around 30 months of exp in the software industry till this date...as far as my knowledge goes only IIM B and L stress more on past acads but rest of the IIM calls are mostly dependent on your CAT scores...
am i right, if not then please shed some light on this one...
thanks in advance

I think while handing out calls for GD/PI, all IIMs only check out your CAT score, nothing else. Later when the GD/PIs are conducted, then they might consider other factors. While IIM B has been known to favour students with higher acad marks, don't know much about the other IIMs. But one thing's for sure, if you get 99.5+, with all sections above 96, I think it's almost sure that you'll get calls from all 6 IIMs(excluding Shillong for now).

Just for facts, this year, the highest cutoff was for IIM A and it was 95.6 for each section and 99.3 overall. So this may give you some idea about the future cutoffs

[sarvshwet]

Originally Posted by avinav2712

I think while handing out calls for GD/PI, all IIMs only check out your CAT score, nothing else. Later when the GD/PIs are conducted, then they might consider other factors. While IIM B has been known to favour students with higher acad marks, don't know much about the other IIMs. But one thing's for sure, if you get 99.5+, with all sections above 96, I think it's almost sure that you'll get calls from all 6 IIMs(excluding Shillong for now).

Just for facts, this year, the highest cutoff was for IIM A and it was 95.6 for each section and 99.3 overall. So this may give you some idea about the future cutoffs

thast not true....

iim a and c
does that , they have a specific cut off and give calls to all tjose who have scored above it.....

while b and l are known to consider everything....

iim s has grad cut off also....

the details are easily availabe on all the iim sites....

here are the links:
IIM-A IIM-B IIM-C IIM-I IIM-K IIM-L

[sarvshwet]

Originally Posted by avinav2712

I think while handing out calls for GD/PI, all IIMs only check out your CAT score, nothing else. Later when the GD/PIs are conducted, then they might consider other factors. While IIM B has been known to favour students with higher acad marks, don't know much about the other IIMs. But one thing's for sure, if you get 99.5+, with all sections above 96, I think it's almost sure that you'll get calls from all 6 IIMs(excluding Shillong for now).

Just for facts, this year, the highest cutoff was for IIM A and it was 95.6 for each section and 99.3 overall. So this may give you some idea about the future cutoffs

to add...

a friedn of mine has the following scores:
sectionals:98.82, 98.34,96.97
oa: 99.64

and does not have a call from IIM L

so we can never generalise any thing......

[avinav2712]

Originally Posted by sarvshwet

to add...

a friedn of mine has the following scores:
sectionals:98.82, 98.34,96.97
oa: 99.64

and does not have a call from IIM L

so we can never generalise any thing......

Well there are all the details mentioned regarding cutoffs on the TIME website so I thought those are the only requirements.

Regarding IIM-S grad cutoff, it's the only IIM to explicitly declare the grad minimum percentage and that is also set quite high because they wanted to avoid interviewing a large number of candidates for just 60 seats. Thus, the total calls stand at only 622 whereas it could have been much more without that requirement