Grace marks to women aspirants at IIM-C
It’s good news for the women out there seeking to enter the competitive arena of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC)! These women will now have an edge over their male counterparts as IIM-C prepares to introduce “reservation” for women to enable them to cross the threshold of its ‘male-dominated’ campus.
Effective from the academic session 2013-2014, IIM-C will be the first among all the older IIMs to modify its admission criteria, reported TOI.
Factually, women comprise only 10% of the entire student population on the institute’s campus and enrolling more women aspirants is expected to improve the overall discipline and atmosphere of the campus. The move is initiated to correct the skewed ratio of male and female students inside the campus. However, this decision of the IIMC will require vital modification in the existing selection formula.
Facts and features:
- The first stage of entry remains the national level Common Admission Test (CAT)
- Change will be seen in the next stage – the decisive short listing stage
- Earlier at the second stage, CAT score and the academic performance of a candidate pertaining to their class X and XII scores was considered. Now on, women will get a bonus of a certain percentage to add to their score.
- However, men will score zero in this criterion, thus losing that extra edge to women competitors
The marks to be allotted to women at this stage are yet to be decided by the admissions committee of IIMC.
“We are tweaking the existing formula in a manner different from the other new IIMs that have already revised it for bringing about gender diversity. While they have given benefit to the women at the interview stage - the third stage of the admissions process - we will be giving them the advantage at the second (short listing) stage itself. This will help us create a bigger pool of women to be interviewed,” an IIMC faculty member told TOI. (Read more)
The initiative is expected to increase the probability of more women candidates making it to the interview stage to meet the faculty, thus increasing their chance of getting selected.
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