CAT Retest in mid January for about 8000 aggrieved students

December 16th, 2009

CAT Retest in mid January for about 8000 aggrieved students. 200,000, took the exam successfully and satisfactorily.

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) on Wednesday apologised for failing to hold a flawless Common Admission Test (CAT) this year and promised that a retest will be conducted for all aggrieved students in mid-January.

“The IIMs through a CBT (computer based test) based CAT 2009 wished to enhance the quality of exam taking for a large number of candidates by providing them an improved testing environment.

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IIMs did not blame the test conducting firm Prometric entirely for the problem. “Its not a capacity problem. I don’t doubt the credibility,” Barua said but added that “their contract with us is always under review. It can fall if we are not satisfied”.

Nearly 242,000 candidates registered for the CAT-2009 but only 216,000 took the test. The IIMs said that while 24,000 aspirants did not show up for the test at all, 2,000 need to give a retest.

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Source Hindustan Times

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  1. shilpi5
    December 19th, 2009 at 16:54 | #1

    i wod lyk to suggest..retest should be 4 all da students…
    b’coz CAT dis tym ws nt fair enough.4 sm students D.I was tough while 4 others it was quite simple..same was with quant…max part was covered by numbers,probility,progressions,p&c while others topic was not even touched in sum of da papers 4 eg_CAT held on 5th evng…

  1. December 16th, 2009 at 22:33 | #1
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