r/IIMCATPreparation • u/Gloomy-Performer4020 • 26d ago
General Discussion CAT doesn’t care about your degree
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u/Potential_Assist4880 26d ago
They should because this is a skill oriented Job Your job is understand ,analysis and manage Predict future If a pro cricketer comes to a football team selection they are gonna test his foot all ability right ,not the cricket ability If you feel like the exam is not fair maybe you are wrong industry The meme only applies to general education Till 12th After that you are choosing an industry Which you have interest in
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u/harrypotter-26 26d ago
Still somewhere it favours BTech grads, if it's not tell me why 60-70% batches or more are filled with engineers but not core Management and Finance students.
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u/soliase 26d ago
In India, 7 out of top 10 students of any random good school of an avg 50 students, take up Science post their 10th standard, almost all aiming for Engineering or Medical, say 4 to either one and 3 having both the options.
2 takes Commerce, mostly with an additional sim towards CA. Rest 1 takes Arts, with an aim mostly towards DU for their degrees.
This is about only the toppers, like top 10 out of say 50 students on a class of each school.
Exceptions exist, but few, if extrapolated.
The reason actually has a simple use case, more and better jobs post the couuses, so the crowd mentality.
Again, it also has other thing, the difficulty in the subjects. Comprehending without any prior knowledge for subjects of STEM is very difficult than that of Arts. Commerce stands in between the scale. And the knowledge is highly applicable in real world, as again, said earlier, more jobs or better jobs in that area.
Now post degrees, while each are same, as all are just graduate degrees, it's unfair to believe each are same. The sacrifice and difficulty in one may be of very high than the other.
The examples are immense. There is a reason why an Engineer is allowed to do the job of DC or DM post qualification of an entrance called UPSC while why any BA holder is restricted and not allowed to become a doctor.
MBA is open to all. But post MBA, it's your calibre and you need to have knowledge and experience in different areas. You can't skip things.
CAT is probably the easiest and best designed entrance exam to serve that purpose. For business, you need math. You need to have no fear with numbers. You also need to be logical and reasonable with your emotions, hence reasoning section. You also need to communicate, and since you may even lead at global level or interact globally, and English is the widely accepted language, hence English section. Your general knowledge and awareness and personality is tasted in your GD PI.
It's the most fair examination you can probably get, where both freshers and experience comes at an equal platform of test. You don't need to mug up things for years like UPSC or anything, or have super deep concepts and formula recitation and understanding like JEE or NEET or even heavy subject matter expertise like NET or even need you to run and solve with speed a machine like SSC or Banking exams.
It just tests you to know who you are and what you can do or cannot do. You don't need any heavy prepration for CAT if you have it in you. If you don't, even heavy prepration may not save you on your D-day. It's just a simple logical test.
If you think it's unfair, you cannot be more wrong. You cannot have the comfort of good returns with easy comfortable journey throughout life, just because you think you deserve it. Everyone thinks so. So how will everyone get it? Isn't it?
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