CAT makes fewer calls for SC/STs

CAT’s getting choosy this time. Very choosy. With the IIMs announcing their individual cut-offs, not as many students have been able to make the cut this time.

This is especially true of students from the SC/ST categories, who have particularly been badly hit. IIM sources claim that they have not been able to call as many students from these categories as they would have ideally liked to for the group discussion/personal interviews (GD/PIs), simply because not enough have been able to meet the individual and overall cut-offs.

At IIM, Calcutta (IIM-C), the institute generally calls 3.5 times the number of students as there are seats. “We have around 22 seats for the ST category, for which we should ideally have called 77-78 students. However, we have only been able to find 41 students who have met the cut-offs,” Professor Ashish K Bhattacharyya, spokesperson, the CAT group and chairperson (admissions), IIM-C, told ET.