Foul play in CAT 2012 scores: 80 students get inflated marks

In a revelation that will impact MBA admissions based on CAT 2012 scores and shake up the credibility of the exam, IIMs have admitted that scorecards available officially to non-IIMs for admission have been ’tampered’ with.

In a notification on Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) website, a disclosure says, “the 2012 Common Admission Test (CAT) scores of 80 examinees on the website www.catiim.in have been tampered/altered, resulting in inflation of scores for these examinees.”

According to an India Today article, an anonymous caller tipped off the CAT officials, who later found that scores of 80 candidates on the master database and the website were not in sync.

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They realised it could not be a technical error since test IDs are not in any particular order.

The 2012 CAT convenor said the master database of all the scores, provided to the IIMs by testing services provider Prometric, is unaltered. The “inflation” only occurred at the website - managed by Web Weavers - a web-hosting agency.

A case had been registered on 15 June, 2013 at Kozhikode by 2012 CAT convenor, and investigation is under process.

The website noted that the IIMs were not affected by the error since they use scores from the master database for granting admissions. But, the CAT scores were also used by some non-IIM institutes, which rely upon the online scores.

According to the India Today report, the “inflated” results have affected top-ranked Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) in Delhi University and the Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) in Noida.

The report also noted that nine candidates with inflated scores have been offered seats in BIMTECH while five have applied to FMS. However, with this new report, the candidates are likely to lose their seats.

Here are the testing IDs of candidates where discrepancies were found by IIMs:

SR8221889 SR8274032 SR8387828 SR8534869

SR8224413 SR8277581 SR8390292 SR8541647

SR8226120 SR8278627 SR8409185 SR8541701

SR8232804 SR8280667 SR8409962 SR8543472

SR8232833 SR8284189 SR8413300 SR8548793

SR8236603 SR8286939 SR8413522 SR8549358

SR8238679 SR8291086 SR8414987 SR8551901

SR8240162 SR8294155 SR8426695 SR8553964

SR8240363 SR8298075 SR8426816 SR8555333

SR8244769 SR8298861 SR8427723 SR8573068

SR8246677 SR8305670 SR8429471 SR8578239

SR8246760 SR8309835 SR8447766 SR8594245

SR8249733 SR8314808 SR8459894 SR8598529

SR8251579 SR8329671 SR8464121 SR8603818

SR8251621 SR8347822 SR8489849 SR8605132

SR8256133 SR8351726 SR8497183 SR8612160

SR8256835 SR8374094 SR8511840 SR8615915

SR8258067 SR8375033 SR8515382 SR8621557

SR8265584 SR8380713 SR8517692 SR8632357

SR8273063 SR8381434 SR8529094 SR8633879