Hey B-School Aspirants! CAT will now be a agitated fuzz of clicks. Ending weeks of speculation, the Indian Institute of Management has come out and declared its intention to conduct the Common Admission Test (CAT) online from November 2009.
The decision will impact thousands of students who appear for the highly competitive entrance exam at centres across the country in the hope of scoring high enough to make it to one of the IIMs. The online move will mean changes but internet-age students seem comfortable with the idea.
If the exam goes online, not all students will be able to take the exam on the same day as is the case now. The exam will have to be conducted in staggered batches within a window period of a few months. The other change will be that instead of the current single exam paper, the online test will have several different papers of the same level of difficulty.
The online model will be similar to US exams like the GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test) and the GRE (Graduate Record Examination) except that the results will not appear instantly. So we gotta bell the CAT online hereafter!
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