CAT 2013: Test takers claim low percentile in Verbal section; find discrepancies between actual and normalised scores

 

More and more instances on discrepancies of CAT 2013 scores are pouring in.  According to reports, the discrepancy is primarily on two levels.

First, students are complaining that they received drastically different marks from expectations. Moreover, the scores are specifically low in verbal sections. “An unexpected score in any of the two sections (mostly in verbal) was seen by the test takers. There are people who scored 99.xx in quant but a meagre 20 something in verbal section and some of them seen unexpected score in quant section as well. And there are more than a thousand candidates like this. This is unbelievable as most of them did their exam well,” said Leel Abhishek, in an online petition. The petition has already received 2,462 signatures.  

On the second level, candidates who scored higher marks have ended up with lower normalised scores than those with actually lower scores, explains Shashank Saurav, who attempted CAT 2013.

“Can anyone please explain to me that many of the guys are getting 78 percentile only in 174 marks, while I got just 72.35 percentile with an overall scaled score of 188?” reads one such post on Facebook group Cat 2013 discrepancy. The FB group has various screen shots of such score cards.

As a matter of fact, FirstPost stated, “The score cards released by IIMs on January 14 shows that the candidate who did not even answer any of the questions in the CAT 2013 paper, scored around 55 percentile.”

“The official score card of a CAT 2013 taker who did not attempt a single question, has a percentile as high as 55. In other words, the candidates who had left their paper blank would have managed at least 55 percentile this year. The score card above also implies that those candidates who would have scored at least 1 mark would have emerged with anything more than 55 percentile in their CAT 2013 exams,” they further claimed.

Shiksha.com spoke to CAT 2013 Convenor Rohit Kapoor, who said that “There will be no process for re-evaluation in CAT system. To ensure fairness, we roped in government agency National Informatics Centre.”

Questions are rising over the process of normalisation adopted by Prometric. Last year, reports a scandal that broke out, after scores of around 80 students were found tampered.

Last year, XLRI had issued fresh scores after sores in quantitative techniques (QT) section were found low.

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