Students' Corner

Dear Students,

 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:  Do you think B-schools should make changes in their entrance test pattern to also attract students from humanities background?

 

BEST RESPONSE 

 

Humanities is a multifarious discipline pertinent to the fields of literature, philosophy, religion and arts with great significance in practical terms. The MBA degree awarded by B-schools is meant to attract people from a wide range of academic disciplines. In such a situation, it is laudable if B-schools decide to modify their testing pattern for alluring humanities graduates. The rationale behind this mutation is to enrich the versatility of business graduates which is quintessential to their branch of knowledge. By bringing in assorted candidates will integrate a totally fresh paradigm along with enthusing zeal to the curriculum.

- Shivam Chhabra, Integral University, Lucknow.

 

 

OTHER RESPONSES

 

B-schools have already made many changes in paper pattern and scoring pattern to attract students from humanities background. So the need of hour is to make humanities more interesting and lucrative to attract more talented students toward it. Besides, teaching patter in humanities department need to radically change to make it more scientific, rational and logical. For instance, we could model our humanities department on the pattern of education of UK, and USA humanities department. 

- Nilaya Mitash Shanker, IIT Roorkee.

 

 

Every MBA graduate is expected to have quantitative and logical skills to substantiate their decisions. Business activities in HR management also involves working with data and every decision is subjected to critical scrutiny and an MBA graduate is expected to have those analytical skills.The current entrance exam which tests one's quantitative, logic and verbal skills are something which are a must for every MBA aspirant irrespective of their background. On the other hand, students from humanities background might have to work hard on their analytical skills.   

- Nithin Nara, IIT Bombay.

 

 

Good articulation and communication skills is the need of the hour and at the time of placements, recruiters emphasise heavily on these two parameters. If these factors are given equal emphasis in the entrance exam, students from non engineering stream such as humanities, liberal studies etc would stand at par with engineering students. Such emphasis has already begun to take place with XAT molding its pattern to attract students from more diverse fields. Eventually it will invite healthy discussion in the classrooms as students will bring different perspective proportional to their backgrounds resulting in a rich blend of thought creation.

- Siddhartha Bhatnagar, School of Petroleum Management, PDPU, Gandhinagar

 

 

The current entrance pattern provides equal opportunities to students from all verticals including humanities. However, generally speaking, the humanities students pursue government jobs or higher degrees in their own fields so their is less of a trend towards MBA. Hence, there is no need to change the pattern.

- Swar Grover, GNDU, Amritsar

 

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:  Do you think smaller engineering institutes should pool together to weather slowdown during placements?

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