Prometric pats self for CAT success

Updated on: Friday, December 18, 2009

Kolkata: Online CAT organiser Prometric, which revealed on Thursday it would conduct a forensic analysis of the exam to pick genuine candidates for the retest, lauded itself on the “success” of the examination in a release earlier in the day.

Thousands who had prepared to take the test on November 17 and for at least three days thereafter, had to return home after being told that the examination had been cancelled due to “technical snags”. There were an equal number who sat for the test but who complained of their screens going blank after a while and their inability to write the test. However, the release talks about how lakhs of candidates “successfully completed CAT” over 11 days.

“More than 2.15 lakh candidates successfully completed CAT 2009”, the release starts off. In fact, there is no apology nor recognition of the fiasco that has left so many candidates stranded, in the whole of the first paragraph.

Then however, comes the “deep regret” that “some” candidates encountered difficulties and need to take a retest. Prometric has confirmed in the release that the rescheduled exam too will be an online exam, thanks to the decision that the IIMs have conveyed to them.

Prometric pats self for CAT success

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