The last day for Prometric to notify affected students about their retest slots on January 30 and 31, 2010 was six days back on January 10 and still, confusion prevails among many candidates about their schedule or about whether they even have to take the test at all. On January 1, the CAT authorities had […]

In a writ petition filed in the Karnataka High Court, a Bangalore-based IT professional sought the cancellation of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 computer-based test and a subsequent retest in paper-pencil format. The public interest petition filed on January 2, 2010 cites test delays, mismanaged invigilation and various hardware and software malfunctions as fit […]

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) will not consider CAT scores for admissions to its flagship program, PGDM (C) 2010-2012. According to Deval Kartik, faculty and admissions co-ordinator, MICA, the admission process followed by the institute this year will be MICAT, Group Exercise and Personal Interview (GE-PI). MICAT is the internal test conducted by the […]

As per catiim.in, The first phase of CAT 2009 was from November 28th to December 8th, 2009. The second phase of CAT 2009 will be on January 30th and 31st, 2010. The candidates identified for the re-test in phase two would receive communication from Prometric by January 10, 2010. The results of CAT 2009 are […]

As per an Economic Times news report, the CAT results will be delayed. According to the article “While the convenor of the exam told ET that the results could be delayed by a few days from the originally-scheduled January 22, another person close to the developments said it could stretch to February 2010.” When asked […]

In their latest statement released today, the India Institutes of Management claim to have unearthed patterns of problems faced by candidates during the ten-day period of CAT 2009 between November 28 and Dec 8. Asserting that a retest was not needed since only 4% of the test-takers had been affected by the unfair testing conditions, […]

Great Lakes Institute of Management is amongst top 20 B Schools in India (Business India, November 1, 2009) built on a 20 acre facility near historic Mamallapuram on the scenic East Coast Road. Learning here is ensconced under every book in the library under every pillow of each Great Laker. Vision With the motto, Global […]

The IIMs and the HRD ministry have decided to not go down the retest route. CAT 2009 has been the most mismanaged mess of an exam in recent history and yet the IIMs have decided that it would be better to harm a few thousand students than to do the right thing. Right from day […]

The HRD ministry has convened a meeting tomorrow and all the IIM directors are expected to attend. Tomorrow might be the day for some potentially concrete news, but then no much point to keep the hopes too high because if the IIMs had to do the ‘right thing’, they could and should have done it […]

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