mumbai getting into a management institute is easy any bschool aspirant will tell the challenge is to bag a job after graduating now an mba education blog and a testing agency have surveyed and found that only one in five mbas is employable the survey conducted in tier2 bschools found that a lot of correction was required with regard to the manner in which classroom teaching was conducted students were checked for their skills in verbal ability quantitative ability and reasoning in this prerecruitment survey the survey architects tested 2264 candidates in 29 cities an average of 80 students in each city the top 25 management institutes of india including the iims were not covered in this survey overall average percentage score obtained by mbas in verbal ability quantitative ability and reasoning was 5258 4117 and 3751 respectively considering that the elements of the reasoning test deductive logic data sufficiency spatial reasoning and analytical reasoning are crucial to making sound management decisions this is a result which warrants closer attention the analysis of the result noted this is not the first time that such a survey has been held in 2007 a similar survey had placed the employability index at 25 per cent since then the number of bschools in india has risen fourfold from 200607 from 94704 to 35 lakh colleges today questions are asked about the talent coming out of mba colleges and whether they create a workforce responsive to the needs of the economy like understanding of business and onthefeet thinking so decisionmaking skills are being valued more than ever says amit agnihotri chairman of mbauniversecom one of the agencies that conducted the survey the passthrough rates were calculated based on the predecided cutoff for each test that are at par with the average cutoff scores decided by companies in their recruitment exercises the threshold cutoff scores used in verbal ability quantitative ability and reasoning were 45 35 and 40 respectively