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Students to File RTI. Will this open a Pandora's box?
The Common Admission Test (CAT), which began in December, officially ended on Sunday with the Indian Institutes of Management declaring the scores of lakhs of candidates who took the entrance examination. Of the 2.41 lakh students who sat for the exam, 11 of them scored a perfect cent percentile; in absolute numbers, they all were marked close to 300 out of 450. |
- The system was changed this year from written to online. Therefore, more or less good No. of candidates faced the problem, even some of them had to go from one place to another to appear in the test as the system was not working at that time so they were denied to appear in the test. RTI is a right of one to get the right information,so ,I won't think, there would be any problem for the management, as one learns from mistake. Posted by Raj Sharma | 10 Mar, 2010
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RTI will be filed by those who are not satisfied with marks allocated.
There are people who have an attitude that i am always right,hence unneccessary ruckus.
The attitude should change for healthy competition. reasonable is better Posted by Rajesh Popli, Free Lancer at none | 06 Mar, 2010
- This should definitely bring more clarity and transperancy in the education system Posted by Nidhi, AM at TBSL | 05 Mar, 2010
- Openess in education is a must to sustain quality. Posted by gh.mohyuddin wani, prof.dr.drmed vet at foundation for advancement of science and technology | 05 Mar, 2010
- Excellent step. Congratulations! Work for for good governance and transparency. It is not a sensitive security matter. Reminding of Sorbonne university days. Posted by Awni Ranjan, Indian Citizen at Live in India | 05 Mar, 2010
- RTI was intended to be an epoch-making piece of legislation and it is proving its worth, slowly but steadily.Students taking up the cause of RTI is a very welcome sign, because they have always formed the vanguard in many historic socio-political reforms. Yes, there will be some problems for some time, but it is all for a greater cause, that is transparency and accountability in public service delivery. Let\'s welcome the development. Posted by Janmejoy Patel, President at Sundargarh Education Society | 04 Mar, 2010
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Hello Teachers. Why do we teach? What do we expect our students to learn? Do we want them to parrot what have been told to them without filtering, distilling, analyzing? Do we really want them to blindly accept what is told to them? Or do we want them to apply their minds to whatever that is told to them? -- After appearing for an objective exam, don’t we expect our wards to know how much they can possibly score? How much marks they can earn or achieve?
If a young aspiring manager thinks he has been ‘wronged’ shouldn’t we as responsible adults who have shouldered the task of shaping their future convince them that they have not been wronged ???
I wonder why in 2010 we are scared of opening the Pandora’s ...See More Posted by Ambica Sengupta, Asst. Professor at Unitedworld School of Business | 04 Mar, 2010
- I strongly feel that they should file right to information. As you have rightly pointed out that it will open a pandora's box, yes lot of things will open up. Transperancy should be there , each person has invested in lot of their time in the preparation so they deserve to know where they went wrong. Posted by suman jalali, principal at school | 03 Mar, 2010
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If one is talking of education then why should Pandoram box be not opened. For the better understanding of a subject it is important for a sutdent to know if he has answerd wrong.
Manoj you are talking of an instute -CAT- where lacs of students appear for examination, I know of institutes where just hundred student are admited in a year, but they never graduate from first year to second year in ine year. They take at least 18 to 24 months. This is the case of acamedic administration and not may administrators know how to go about it. Many a times no admissions are made. Posted by as kanal, Director at vikshi Institute of media studies | 03 Mar, 2010
- RTI is a calculative step , for keeping best transparency in the system, for the best test in the academic system of education at post graduate level.Does not need any rectification . Posted by Naresh Parekh, Engineer -Surveyor at V.R.Associates | 03 Mar, 2010
- Let\'s not politicize this exam at least, One of the best maintained exam........Once RTI is in picture it is more then the students the politicians take advantage and make huge hue & cry, Any anamolies in the exam let them be rectified and go ahead.. for sure this being the 1st year for online test things need to be corrected but let RTI not go into students hand in turn to the politicians. Posted by Sanjay Vomkarey, Head - Sales & Marketing at Acme Instructional Technics (P) Ltd | 03 Mar, 2010
- RTI is a mojor step forward to make India a true democracy. Education along with health being the only pillars of national development it is imperative that both these vital fields are absolutely transparent. A stdent who has taken the examination has a basic right to know the details of evaluation. Hetherto the evaluators have got away with a very casual approach without any fear of accountability. It is time that this unbriddled immunity is done away with. Posted by Dr. Vishwanath Gogte, educationist at Discovery Science Exploratory | 03 Mar, 2010
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The question has two parts.
1) RTI with good intentions will produce excellent results. It will bring out what are the forces that will hinder competition.
2) The undesirable result is one of the best administered examinations in the world is being questioned.
My suggestion is go ahed with RTI. Posted by Krishnamurthy Prabhakar, Professor -Content Development and Instructional Design at MaxValueOnline | 03 Mar, 2010
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Manoj,
in all kinds of exams, leave alone CAT, there is intense competition given the huge number of candidates that take them. As there is a limit to the number of intakes thru\' CAT exams, majority of the students will always have a issue in terms of the namture of questions/scoring pattern or to the fact that exam results were declared a bit late! Feel this is more of a one-off instance and one should\'t try to read much into it...In real life scenairo,
mere expectations do not translate into reality! Its time to move on & start preparing for the next round of CAT exams as this RTI don\'t seem to be based on
factual information. Posted by Amit Vijai, Sr Brand Manager at Mirc Electronics Ltd (ONIDA) | 03 Mar, 2010
- Yes, No way, RTI filling will improve the concern area. But it will land up with some complication to deal with. Posted by RAJESH VIJAY, Sr.Technologist - Recycle Services at Newreka Green Synth Technologies Pvt Ltd | 03 Mar, 2010
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Filing RTI is always a sign of healthy competition. If transparency is not maintained in academic institutions, where else can we expect it. Besides, if a student has burnt midnight oil, s/he has got her/his right to know where things got right/wrong. Further, students need to know the parameters used in marking their exams, so that in future they can score better by giving value to the yardstick shown to them.
Dr.Amrendra K Sharma
Dhofar University,
Sultanate of Oman Posted by Dr Amrendra Sharma, Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Dhofar University | 03 Mar, 2010
- I fully concur with the students. Due to a faulty exam, some students got special advantage when they were supposed to be write the same AGAIN when the exam was re-started to them. This might have given additional advantage for them because, they had already seen some questions and trying to answer the same during the second or re-run attempt might have given them advantage. So they got more marks also. Others students whose exam was trouble free, really got disadvantage over the first set of students and might have got placed lower to them. In the interest of FAIR practice and to keep the dignity of IIM and CAT exams, the students demand for a cancellation of the present and conducting once again seems to be a better option ...See More Posted by Prasad PVLN, Professor at IBS-Hyderabad | 03 Mar, 2010
- yes this will certaily lead many problems like false complaints,delay in declaration of results,bbreaking the policy of secrecy of examination dept etc. but lets see.... Posted by Ravi Sharma | 03 Mar, 2010
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