IIM aspirants caught in a bind

Updated on: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Several final-year undergraduate students of NMIMS University, who have made it to the second stage of the selection procedure to the Indian Institute of Management, are a worried lot as their institution has not yet released the seventh-semester results.

The university follows a trimester system and several students pursuing the honours programme in commerce and BBA said they would have to waste a year if the university did not publish the results of the exams held in October. “Some of us have been shortlisted for the second round of the entrance procedure at IIM, Kozhikode, but we do not have the seventh semester results. That jeopardises our chances,” said a student. The IIM-K wants applicants to submit a copy of their last concluded exams, but NMIMS University students, so far, have their sixth semester results.

Many of them even approached the examination department of the university, but to no avail, they claimed. “The examination department said they did not have the results. The IIMs demand year-wise academic information and if we do not fill the details of the seventh semester, we will not be eligible for the next stage,” said a student.

When TOI contacted the university, pro vice-chancellor M N Welling said they had always declared the results within 30 days of an exam. “This year’s delay is due to the change in the method of drawing up results, from normal computer to the SAP system,” he said but he added that the final results would be considered for admission to a PG course. “No student will suffer due to a delay in the results of the seventh trimester,” he wrote to TOI.

IIM aspirants caught in a bind

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