CAT Exams Online as of November 2009

Posted by arnold

May 22, 2008

November 2009 and candidate appearing for Common Admission Test can seem forward to doing away with document work as CAT, one of the country’s impressive entrance exams is all set to go online from 2009. The choice will crash thousands of students who each year appears for the highly gung ho entrance exam at centers crossways the country in the ambition of making it to the hallowed corridors of IIMs.

Speaking on the new initiative, Asish Bhattacharyya, admissions chairperson at IIM Calcutta, said that an online system would “help us handle the huge number of students appearing for the test every year. Last year the number crossed 2.3 lakh”. This number is only predictable to add to with projections of three lakh-plus in 2009.

Once the new system would be in place, not all students will be able to take the exam on the same day as is the system applicable now. The exam would then take place in phases with ’spread out batches’ within a period of a few months. The other alter will be that instead of the current single exam paper, the online test will carry quite a few different papers of the same level of difficulty.

“With the online test, CAT will be similar to the GMAT test in its process. This will be definitely valuable for the students as they can appear in the exam according to their correctness rather than a particular day”, says, Dr S P Parashar, Director, and IIM-Indore. The online CAT exam will be conduct on the prototype of like global exams like GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test), with the only exemption that the results will not be affirmed right absent.

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