Posts Tagged ‘CAT’
CAT retest in mid January
Despite many technical snags in the CAT online test the Indian Institutes of Management have decided to continue with online test next year also. Meanwhile retest for all the students who could not appear for CAT will be held in mid January.
IIMs review CAT 2009, Silent on retest
Will the IIMs scrap the just-concluded computer-based common admission test (CAT) and revert to the paper-pencil format for this
year? No concrete answers yet, but according to sources close to the development, opinions have changed over the last five days, especially with the number of candidates affected by computer glitches rising to 20,000.
Online testing companies knock IIM door to replace Prometric
Education companies that organise online exams for various universities have started knocking on IIMs’ doors hoping to land the
contract to run the annual CAT exams if the current deal with Prometric is cancelled.
Pearson VUE, Eduquity Career Technologies, MeritTrac and Aptech are among those that have shown interest in bagging this high-profile $40-million contract. Some of the companies have informally approached IIM, while others are waiting to see the outcome of the review that IIMs are conducting of Prometric’s performance this year.
Online CAT Review on Cards
The software glitches that marred the first online version of the reputed Common Admission Test (CAT) will force a total review of the
mechanism, top officials of the Indian Institutes of [...]