Now this has been due for days! Prometric has finally put up updated FAQs for students. The FAQ primarily deals with rescheduling and also touches upon aspects like DA students, change in locations etc. The entire FAQ can be found at http://www.catiim.in However, I am also copy-pasting the same below. The latest version will be […]

According to a report in The Telegraph, Calcutta, the Directors of IIMs are considering scrapping this year’s online CAT and save face with a paper-based retest. The story built on an anonymous IIM Director’s version reports that all IIM Directors except one are okay in principle with the proposal. As of now, no other source […]

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Approximately 7,000-8,000 candidates have not been able to take the computer-based CAT 2009 test due to snags in the Prometric-managed exam between Saturday and Monday, said Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad Director Dr Samir Barua at a press conference in Ahmedabad on Monday evening. A total of 47 testing labs failed on Saturday, another […]

At 6 pm today (November 30, 2009), representatives from the Indian Institute of Management, Prometric and NIIT shall hold a press conference to address questions about snags at CAT centers throughout the nation. This is the perfect platform to let the IIMs know about cases where you feel the CAT was administered in a faulty […]

About ASB Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has striven to develop and maintain a multi-disciplinary flavor in its academic offerings, which range from Management to Biotechnology, Engineering to Medicine to Journalism, from its inception. ASB which was started in 1996, is ranked 13th among the top private B-Schools in India (Open-Cfore Survey, Sep 2009). Amrita School of […]

So its a virus after all. ‘Vital Information Resource Under Siege’ is what, according to Prometric played truant with the online testing of CAT 2009. A press note released by Prometric and IIMs on November 29, 2009 says: “While almost 20,000 candidates completed their exams on Day One, computer viruses at a number of testing […]

There are reasons why Indian students are alarmed when an examination is converted from a tried and tested paper-pencil format to the ‘new’ online testing one. CAT 2009’s recent debacle made it even clearer that when it comes to an exam that pretty much determines the future of lakhs of candidates, there is no room […]

Prometric has updated their website with further information for the CAT Exam on the 29th of Nov. On their site, they mention the following – “The launch of the computerized CAT involved the delivery of exams by Prometric into more than 360 testing labs at 104 individual locations. While a significant majority of the candidates […]

Two of the PG HQ members and their experiences with the CBT CAT. We have put in the time-line and our experiences, feel free to comment with your own experiences at different centers. We have put in this specific format so that you can ‘live’ through the experience and be prepared for it tomorrow and […]