Prometric India asks students not to panic while it makes arrangements for alternate testing.
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Prometric, the US-based agency that is conducting the ensuing Common Admission Test (CAT), have released a practice test on the web ahead of the actual examination.
Having burnt their fingers with the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) in 2009, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Prometric the US-based firm which has been assigned the task of conducting the exam have proposed a few changes to ensure this year's exam is conducted without any technical glitches.
Aditya Dipankar, a student of MDes (Information & Interface Design) 2009-11 at the National Institute of Design (NID), Bangalore to look up the practice test and identify pain points and suggest improvements in the interface.
Some students were caught cheating on camera. They were subsequently asked to leave the examination centre, Prometric, the company which provided the software for the test, admitted for the first time.
Even as day three of the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) continued to add to the anxiety of the student community, academicians have shifted the blame game from Prometric to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and NIIT, accusing them of adopting a highly casual attitude.
Results of the Common Admission Test could get delayed with Indian Institutes of Management and Prometric, which conducted the online test, still to decide a new date for conducting the exam for students who could not give their exam due to technical glitches.
Prometric to arrange for alternate testing. Affected students being informed by phone and e-mail
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