After CAT 2009 fiasco and the high profile meeting of IIM directors and MHRD officials, a notification was released on CAT website on 17th of December. Notification highlights the fact that out of 2.4L students who appeared for the test, more than 2L successfully completed the test. Students who could not complete the test due to various reasons will be given another chance to appear for the test in second half of January 2010. Telephone calls, emails, letters and complaints filed at the centres will be taken into consideration while …

One expected that they will scrap the CAT 2009 and go for a retest amidst reports of technical glitches as well as glitches in setting the questions for the exam. But they had something else in mind and yesterday they declared that the test was mostly OK except for 4% of the students who suffered because of technical glitches.
In.com, Network 18’s media portal, is now reporting that prometric’s CAT agreement is under the scanner. The report quotes IIM-A director’s statement which clearly indicates that prometric is all set to experience …

How awesome is this. We have a news which is like music to most of you and noise to some of you. CAT 2009 committee which met earlier today ruled that CAT 2009 exam will not be scrapped. Instead, they will be conducting fresh exam for those students who do not fall under the category ‘most’ or as they put it
“Students who were genuinely affected by the technical glitches”. Now how on God’s good green earth are they going to establish genuinity of suffering is a billion euro …

CAT 2009 was supposed to be the eureka moment for those who believe future of education is online and its high time that we join the bandwagon. Instead it turns out that CAT 2009 was designed for those believe that offline is the best line. From claims that the servers were hit by viruses to the hapless students who were left in wilderness, everything about this years CAT was so goddamn weird. A press release on CAT 2009 website (edited version pasted here) best sums up the plight of test …

Career forum has announced a free CAT 2009 CBT under its PRECAT series. Career forum, every year organizes a test series for CAT preparation under the brand name, PRECAT. The first PRECAT will be a free, open for all test.

Though the notification for CAT 2009 is still some time away, yet another layer was removed from the CAT 2009 computer based test. IIMA published a FAQ on its website which answers most of the queries that one may have for CAT 2009 computer based test. Among other things that are clarified in the document, following are some of the key points,