Should CAT replace all management entrance exams: Have your say!

The most recent and the latest buzz amongst the various top B-schools is whether CAT should replace all management entrance exams! According to sources, many respondents believe that a common entrance exam across government and b-school would turn out to be beneficial for the MBA aspirants. The CAT exam is indeed proving its worth by a way of becoming a super MBA entrance exam with these developments.

Notable MBA entrance exams such as MICAT entrance exam by MICA, JMET entrance exam by the Department of Management Studies of IITs, and the big entrance exam of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi have been dismissed. And the reason for this very step taken up by these institutions is that these institutions have switched on to CAT as a medium of selecting candidates in the year 2012 with a view of relieving themselves from the burden of executing a national law entrance exam.

With the idea of having a single common entrance exam the students surely can breathe a sigh of relief considering the very fact that the students would not be able to make up for a few entrance exams due to the clash of dates. Also, travelling to cities for taking different entrance exams at regular intervals is impossible. Moreover, the cost of applying for these exams too becomes exorbitant for the aspirants.

But relying completely on a single common entrance exam may turn out to be risky as no other options would be left in hand. If you fail there, you fail.

Source: Madiha Jawed (Shiksha Team)