CAT for IIMs to be computer-based this year onwards

Common Admission TestA change over to computer-based examination from the 33-year-old paper-based examination system Common Admission Test (CAT), conducted for admissions to the country's seven IIMs, is on the cards this year onwards!

The prestigious management institutes - at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Indore, Shillong, and Kozhikode, - have arrived at a consensus for changing over to an online Internet-based CAT, which will bring to an end the gargantuan task involving a lot of paper work and logistic arrangements for conducting the test.

This year the nearly three lakh students looking for admission to IIMs will take the new CBT CAT in November, for which they will be allowed to select a date convenient to them out of the stipulated ten days marked for the test.

About the new CBT, IIM Bangalore's Professor Amarnath Krishnaswamy said: "CBT CAT will be a candidate-friendly test in terms of flexibility in the selection of test date, ease of registration process, better physical environment and test experience." For ensuring better security of the candidates, biometric identification and video monitoring will used.

However, as the IIMs are pioneering an exam system like the proposed CBT, they have sought the help of a US-based company - the Education Testing Society (ETS), which has since long been holding a computer-based TOFEL - for the smooth conduct of this year's CBT CAT.

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