Directors of the six Indian Institute of Management have been asked by the Central Information Commission to consider disclosing marks scored by candidates appearing for the Common Admission Test.
"Why cannot the marks under each category of tests (in CAT) as well as the group of aspirants, general and others, be revealed," Information Commissioner M M Ansari sought to know in a recent order.
The Commission was hearing a Right to Information plea by Mumbai resident Sameer Arora who had sought from IIM, Ahmedabad, details of his exact number of attempted answers that matched with the correct answers in his 2005 CAT exam.
Arora's plea was turned down by the information officer of IIM-A, telling him that CAT was jointly conducted by all the six IIMs and no single institute had