The first of the RTI replies to the CAT 2013 issues is in and what a response! Not a single question answered.
Abhishek Leel, one of the CAT 2013 candidates who was the first to file an RTI (in the traditional offline way) received a response from IIM Indore officials today. The response is everything else but the answers.
Below are the questions Abhishek Leel asked
And read right below for the answers he got.
Ironically even Prometric (the CAT 2013 testing agency) had a similar response to provide when asked pointed questions on providing raw scores; its response to the court notice; clarification on scores etc.
Below is only an excerpt of the response sent via mail.
CAT, as a tool used to identify the very best test takers, is not a measure of average scores. Scoring for CAT 2013 is equated to ensure fairness across multiple test forms, which ensures greater security and integrity of candidates’ scores. If candidates choose not to answer a single question on their exams, it remains our responsibility to deliver them a score. Hence, a candidate with zero response automatically gets a 0 raw score – within the entire range from [-30, +90]. This is then adjusted (to eliminate negative scores), equated(to provide fairness across different form difficulty levels) and scaled (to give a final range from 0-225 in any section). For example, a zero response candidate will get a positive score. The fact that percentiles may be higher than 50-percentile is not unusual, owing to the difficulty of this exam. As a provider of testing and assessment for more than 350 organisations around the world, we have experienced this in prior years as well…