New IIMs delay WAT PI shortlist amid reports of CAT 2013 score discrepancy

Ipsita Sarkar Gupta | shiksha.com

The list of shortlisted candidates for Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) in the six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) will now be released on January 26, 2014. The list was initially supposed to release today on January 22.

Which begs the question, has the current discrepancy in CAT 2013 scores as pointed out by various test takers and experts, led to newer IIMs postponing the shortlist?

According to the official notification on IIM Trichy’s website, “List of candidates for WAT & PI for IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IIM Ranchi, IIM Rohtak, IIM Trichy & IIM Udaipur' will be available in the website on 26th January 2014 for access.”

The notice says, “Individual IIMs will prepare a shortlist based on their shortlisting criteria. These shortlists will be combined for further processing by the coordinating IIM, namely, IIM Trichy. From the combined list, names of candidates called for interviews by IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, and IIM Kozhikode will be set aside.  The remaining candidates will be called for a Common Personal Interview & Written Analysis Test (PI & WAT).”

“We have not received the list from IIM Indore yet,” said an official from IIM Trichy Admission office to Shiksha.com.

After last’s year CAT scam, where 80 admissions were cancelled due to tampering of scorecards, non-IIMs have are now worried.

“Where is all of this leading? Other non-IIMs should not be kept in the dark,” said the director of a top Delhi-based B-School.