Is the selection criteria of companies really relevant?

During our interviews we are generally asked to relate our graduation streams with our choice of MBA majors.I really didn't find any relevance to it. The logic behind the people who have pursued this course after their BBA /BBM comes easy to the interviewers. Even if someone is an engineer and doing MBA, that also makes sense to them. But if a person from a science stream is coming into this sector. This fact becomes hard to digest for them. I don't understand why. And that too when the major entrance test 'CAT' qualifies them to do so.

Why don't these guys ask IIM's people about why they have included science students into management. The worst part is that it is always expected out of them that they would pursue their careers in similar sector even after doing MBA. If that is the case why would that person be doing a management course then?

Imagine a science student pursuing a management course in finance and wants a career in capital markets. I am sure to most of the people it would sound weird. But personally, I don't find anything wrong in that.The person has gained those skills in his course then why is it wrong or unacceptable? Its in our mindset maybe that we cant accept such facts so easily. So we make things too difficult for that person by discouraging him, asking questions regarding his shift and no matter how much relevant the decision of that person is, we still not get convinced. 

Another problem is that most of the companies demand 60% overall track record since tenth class. It makes such a sense to them by reasoning it saying that it shows consistency of the person. I mean are you really kidding me? What marks the person got 8 years back are more important for these companies rather than the current performance. Everybody has his ups and downs in life. Even Sachin gets knocked out at zero sometimes. So will you say that he is an inconsistent performer? Same is the case with marks too. Just on the basis of the 6-7 years old record, these companies disqualify the person. This kind of stereotyping  is seen in India especially, where marks gains so much importance that it overshadows the real ability of the person.

By having so many preconceived notions in the mind, the companies tend to lose out the real talent pool. In the dynamic world of today where everything is transforming, I think this sphere has been somehow got neglected. There is a need to breakthrough the old norms in this context too because employees are the major assets of any company and its time to change the way these assets are created.