From CAT results to NTA academic calendar, here’s all that happened in the education sector this week.
The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM Bangalore) announced the Common Admission Test results were declared on December 21. The exam was conducted on November 27 and the results were declared in record time. 11 candidates secured 100 percentile, out of which 10 were engineers but no female candidates were in that list. In the list of 55 toppers, who scored between 100 to 99.98 percentiles, there are four females and 41 engineers. Around 2.22 lakh students appeared for the exam held this year.
Engineers dominated the exam this year as well. Among the candidates with 100 percentile, two each are from Delhi, Maharashtra and Telangana, and one each from Gujarat, Kerala, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
CLAT 2023 Results
The Consortium of National Law Universities (Consortium of NLUs) announced the results for CLAT 2023 on December 23. The final answer key was declared on December 22 and exam was held on December 18. Out of 150 questions for CLAT UG, one question was withdrawn. The question was from the Quantitative Techniques section and the question number was 144. Hence, the evaluation for CLAT UG will be out of 149 marks instead of 150 marks. For CLAT PG, there were modifications in three questions—47, 71 and 113. Two students secured a 100 percentile in CLAT UG 2023. Among the UG toppers NLSIU, Bangalore was the most popular choice.
NTA Calendar
The National Testing Agency released the academic calendar for the year 2023. As per the calendar, the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) will be conducted on May 7, 2023. CUET will be held between May 21 and 31. The reserved dates for CUET are June 1 to 7, 2023.
The Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is an all India level entrance examination for admission into Master of Business Administration (MBA) and postgraduate (PG) diploma programs offered by different institutes in India and abroad. The Centre for Management Services (CMS) of the All India Management Association (AIMA) has been conducting the MAT since 1988.
Management Institutes that offer admission to postgraduate management courses are AICTE (All Indian Council for Technical Education) approved and affiliated to universities for the awarding of degrees and certificates. MAT has the unique distinction of being awarded with ISO 9001: 2000 certification.
MAT was approved by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India as a national level test in 2003.
