AmaOdisha : Orissa News

This is the first time Common Admission Test(CAT) examination is going online very similar to GMAT test.All over the country Prometric is conducting the test in 360 labs , registering 2.41 lakhs of CAT aspirants.

But things don’t go the same way as expected from the very first day of the examination.At many locations, computer crashed mid-way due to overloading of servers.Many students have to return from the center without giving the test.The same thing persists even the second day of the examination.Students are accompanied with log-in problem, rebooting of system in the mid-way, power cut and disappearance of certain parts of the question from the computer system. Students can’t give exam in 50 centers all over the country due to this persisting failure of system n the second day.It has been notified by Prometric, the official partner of IIM who is conducting the exam that for these students the examination will be conducted again in a specified time.

The same thing happened in Bhubaneswar CAT test center, Silicon Institute of Technology.On the second day of the exam, 18 students are refused to take the test due to the non-availability of the computer.Many students are refused to enter inside the center as they didn’t reach at time.Guardians and students are highly disappointed with the on-going system of examination.Perhaps, this is not the right time to make a test online in the country.

CAT examination is scheduled to be conducted across the country in a ten day period from 28 nov- 7 dec.