CAT 2015: Know the scoring and equity process details

The Indian Institute of Management has published the notification of Common Admission Test (CAT) 2015 on July 26. The Common Admission Test (CAT) is scheduled to be held on November 29. The registration procedure will begin from August 6 and will close on September 20. The institute has published the scoring and equity process details. To know CAT 2015: Scoring and Equity Process, the candidates must check the details mentioned below:
According to the official notification, CAT will be conducted in two sessions. The two different test forms shall be supervised in two test sessions. In order to ensure fairness and equity in comparison of performances of the candidates across different test sessions, the scores of the candidates shall be subjected to a process of Normalisation. The normalisation process to be implemented shall adjust for location and scale differences of score distributions across different forms. After normalisation across different forms the scores shall be further normalised across different sections and the scaled scores obtained by this process shall be converted into percentiles for purposes of short listing.


For purposes of reporting, scaled scores for each section i.e. section I: Quantitative Ability, section II: Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning an section III: Verbal Ability will be published along with percentiles.
The process of Normalisation is an established practice for comparing candidate scores across multiple forms and is similar to those being adopted in other large educational selection tests conducted in India such as Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). For normalization across sections, the institute shall use a sort of percentile equivalence.