CAT crash: HRD ministry calls IIMs directors’ meeting
December 14th, 2009 - 11:10 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The human resource development ministry has called a meeting of directors of all Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) to discuss the problem that thousands of students faced due to technical glitches in the Common Admission Test (CAT) earlier this month.
The meeting will take place Wednesday and the higher education secretary will preside over it, said a senior IIM official.
The top management schools, too, have already met to discuss the problem before giving a satisfactory answer to the HRD ministry. At least 241,000 aspirants had registered to appear for the first online CAT examination spread over 11 days. However, all students could not appear for the exam due to technical glitches and virus.
The US-headquartered firm Prometric was holding the test for seven IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode and Shillong.
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