New Delhi, December 16: Giving reprieve to those students, who failed to appear in the Common Admission Test (CAT), The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) Wednesday assured that the candidates will get chance to give the test in mid-January. He also stressed that the pen and pencil format of Common Admission Test (CAT) is history now.
“We are conducting a retest in mid-January for all those students who could not take the CAT. This test will also be computer based,” said Sameer Barua, director of IIM-Ahmedabad.
“We believe that we will go ahead with the online test in future also… this is the only way forward,” Pankaj Chandra, director IIM-Bangalore said after a meeting with the higher education secretary Vibha Puri Das here.
The CAT went online for the first time this year and several students could not appear for the exam due to technical glitches in the whole process.
–Agencies