Mumbai: The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have now criticized the NIIT, the Indian software giant which designed the infrastructural system of online CAT, for the technical faults in Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009. However, the blame was initially put upon the US-firm Prometric, which designed the module for the online CAT.
The Chairmen revealed, after studying various details submitted by Prometric in latest meeting (Mumbai), that the technical faults occurred due to the problems in the local area network that was under NIIT’s responsibility.
Furthermore, IIMs had cleared Prometric to give it clean chit to carry on conducting the test. According to an official, if the directors agree with the suggestions of the admission chairmen, the CAT will be conducted by Prometric while the other regulating partner, NIIT, may not be looked for contract further.
The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009 was conducted in two stages. After the first stage, the problem was generated due to the virus attack, according to the presentation put by the firm to the IIMs. It was a major setback to the IIMs. As a result, the IIM directors will discuss in a meeting, which is scheduled in April 2010, the recommendations made by the admission chairmen. The major point of discussion will be to decide the final conductor of CAT exam this year.
