The number of engineering colleges in India is growing at 20 per cent each year with rural colleges catching up in a big way, which will add to the geographical dispersement of the talent 60 per cent of the graduates take up software as their specialisation.
The IT Abilities Test is a selection tool designed by MeritTrac in conjunction with several leading IT companies who endorse the test and use it as an initial filter in their employee selection process. The test evaluates Logical Reasoning Ability, Attention To Details - skill sets which are critical to the IT industry.
It has been administered on over 25,000 fresh engineering graduates between January-April 2005 across seven states in India. MeritTrac, said it has assessed "over six lakh candidates for clients such as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Flextronics, Adobe, Tesco, Google, Computer Associates, ICICI OneSource, and vMoksha.
