CAT couldn't catch the mice…
>> Sunday, November 29, 2009
Online CAT day 2: 23 centers cancel test(
The
online Common Admission Test in around 23 centres across the country was cancelled on Sunday to allow necessary repairs to be completed at the labs where technical glitches disrupted the exams on Saturday. ...
This was expected. Issues to do with bandwidth and the administration were not handled properly. Its unfortunate that Prometric an American company has been awarded this program. Why doesn't this happen to SNAP, XAT which are online exams with no crashes.
Even, we at dheya have manage simultaneous logins of more than 1000 and have never faced crashes.
This I guess is an immature way of handling by Thomson Prometic. Its exactly what we call as THE WHITE SKIN EFFECT, overconfidence on firangi companies and no confidence on Indian companies.
The importance of the CAT exam has got diluted and a funny situation has cropped up where the Education minister has to embarrassingly answer to the media.
Its important to re-look at the technology partner like Prometric and may be helping Indian companies build capacity would be a solution. Prometric earlier also had no good record for their conducting various certifications anyhow.
My worry is about how blindly our government, administration lay their faith on agencies like Prometric. Could it not be tested before its launch. Every software/ website does that.
Now this is funny: Prof Satish Deodhar, Convener of the CAT exams from IIM Ahmadabad says…..
"This is the first day of the first on-line test. Such an attempt to take an on-line test of 2.41 lakh students in the span of 10 days is being carried out for the first time in the world,"
"We must understand that there are bound to be some problems on the first day of such a huge exercise, but the exams are going on and it will go on for the next ten days".
Its really painful to the students. I am sure there are better ways to manage this.
Lets hope we learn from this
