IITian claims he was rejected from IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay despite securing AIR 18
A picture of an old GATE 2005 scorecard is going viral. The X user who posted it claimed that it’s his scorecard that shows him securing AIR 18. He further claimed that, despite his rank, he was rejected IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay.The X user shared a scorecard of GATE 2005. (X/@kiranControlSys)“Rank 18, 99.65 percentile but was still rejected IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay,” X user Kiran Kumar P tweeted. His X profile claims that he is an IITan.Also Read: IITian exec recalls situations when ‘good’ employees quit because of him: ‘Nobody teaches you how to be a manager’“GATE 2005. GRADUATE APTITUDE TEST IN ENGINEERING 2005. SCORE CARD,” reads the topmost part of the scorecard. It shows a 665 GATE score in IN (Instrumentation engineering). A line on the photo further reads, “The percentile score of the candidate is 99.65.”While the number against the “Candidates Appeared” section is 5098, the All India Rank is shown as 18.(HT.com has not independently verified the image.)How did social media react?Though initially posted on X, the picture is now doing the rounds on social media. It has also prompted varied responses from Reddit users.Also Read:
