New Delhi, November 30
Swinging into action, the government today sought a report from convener of the Common Admission Test (CAT) Satish Deodhar on the ongoing disruption of the computer-based entrance test for admission to IIMs.
The HRD Ministry today shot off a letter to Deodhar, asking him to submit a factual report on the issue of disruption in the test, being conducted by American firm Prometric, a ministry official said.
Prometric has been awarded $40 million contract by the Indian Institutes of Management to computerise the prestigious CAT.
Due to “virus attack” on computers, around 4,000 students could not appear in the test on the first two days of the 10-day staggered entrance test that started on Saturday.
Meanwhile, there was no end to the plight of IIM aspirants as technical glitches continued to disrupt the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) for the third consecutive day.
Candidates could not appear in the test at a few centres in Mumbai, Bangalore and Ghaziabad. The situation was worse at a lab at the IMS, Ghaziabad, where students held a protest for not being able to take the test.
About 2.41 lakh students are scheduled to appear in the test for admission into seven IIMs and a few other B-Schools.
The IIM directors are livid with the exam delivery of Prometric. They held a meeting with representatives of the company last evening.
The director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, (IIM-A) is in touch with his counterparts in other IIMs to find a solution to the problems in the implementation of the first computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT).
“This is for the first time that the computer-based CAT was introduced with a window of 10 days. And, as we saw, there were some initial hiccups during the delivery of exam,” sources in the institute said here.— PTI
