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CAT
exam begins, first day passes without glitches
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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New Delhi:
The first day of the online Common Admission Test conducted by the
Indian Institute of Management Wednesday went without any
technical glitches. The CAT online exam will continue till Nov 24.
This is the second year that CAT exams are being conducted online.
Last year, major technical glitches forced over 8,000 students to
retake the prestigious examination.
However, with longer operational trials and technical
preparedness, the tests are expected to be smooth this year. A
practice test paper was also released earlier by Prometric, the
US-based IT firm responsible for the online format.
"This year, the number of technical problems faced by test takers
were fewer than last year. The support staff at the test venues
was better equipped to handle the glitches this time round,"
Vinayak Kudva, product head at CAT coaching institute IMS, told
IANS.
With around two lakh students appearing for the exams this year,
Kudva advises students to be prepared to face any kind of
technical problems.
"I would recommend students to be mentally prepared for technical
glitches and understand that their chances will not get hampered
by it," Kudva said.
The tests, to be conducted at 78 centres across 33 cities in a
staggered format, will conclude Nov 24. A total of 204,267
candidates have registered for CAT 2010, with the highest number
of registration from Maharashtra where 30,296 candidates have
registered.
Forty different sets of question papers have been prepared for the
exam -- the results for which will be declared Jan 12, 2011.
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