CAT 2009 to go online

Very much in conformance with its capricious nature, the CAT this year has thrown in yet another surprise, only this time the googly’s been bowled few months prior to the actual contest. The common admissions test that is a gateway to India’s most prestigious of all B-schools, the Indian institutes of management (6 of them including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Kolkatta, IIM Indore, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Shillong), is slated to go online from this year thus putting an end to the paper-pencil format that the Institutes have been following for the last 33 years. The CAT scores not only determine admission into the IIM, but also to several other reputed management institutes in the country. According to the IIM the computer based CAT will supposedly be candidate friendly (probably like the GRE and the GMAT), flexible when it comes to selection of test dates and ease registration process (as many as 3 lac students appeared for CAT 2008 thus complicating the registration process). The computerized test will be conducted within 10 scheduled days at the end of the year. Further clarifications and details regarding the new online pattern will me made available only when the advertisements are out later this summer, the IIM Bangalore statement purports. So till then its just wait and watch everybody.

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