Officials mum on errors in CAT paper
The CAT 2006 paper has a total of three incorrect questions --- two in the mathematics and one in the verbal ability section.
By TNN |
KOLKATA: CAT group officials and IIM authorities are keeping mum on how they plan to deal with the errors that have surfaced in the Common Admission Test paper held on Sunday. However, any official decision, they say, will only be taken only in the next meeting of the CAT group either at the end of this month or beginning of the next.
Incidentally, the CAT 2006 paper has a total of three incorrect questions --- two in the mathematics and one in the verbal ability section. While one question in the Maths section offers incorrect multiple choice answers across all the versions, the information for another Maths question is incorrect in two sets. Besides this, one question in the verbal ability section, has three options provided instead of five in one of the versions of the paper.
Speaking to ET, Prof Asish K Bhattacharyya, chairperson (admissions), IIM-C and spokesperson for the CAT group said, "We will come to a decision only after taking everything into account. The mistakes haven't appeared across all the four sets of papers and whatever decision we take should be equitable. So, we will try and find out various alternative solutions by sitting with the experts."
On asked whether there has been a precedent of this in the past, Prof Bhattacharyya said he couldn't remember a similar instance in the last six or seven years of his being at IIM (C).
When contacted, Prof S. Das, chairperson (admissions), IIM-B and another member of the CAT group also said, "The expert committee will look into the issue." He declined to comment on any similar instances in the past and how they had been dealt with.
However, according to an IIM (A) professor who did not want to be named, if a question has no correct options across all sets, it is likely to get scrapped. "There is a caveat put upfront that if there are any errors in the paper, we reserve the right to deal with them as we deem fit. The complexity arises when a question is right in some places and not right in others."
According to the IIM (A) professor, the CAT group is likely to meet either at the end of this month or the beginning of December to come to a decision regarding this issue, once the logistics part of the entire CAT process is completed.
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