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 New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today
said the ministry has sought a detailed report into the server
crash during the online Common Admission Test (CAT)
examination.
"We have sought a detailed report on the virus problem
during the CAT examination," Sibal told reporters outside
Parliament.
He said as per the information collected by the HRD
ministry, a total of 8,297 examinees out of 45,367 students
could not appear in the test that started on Saturday due to
crashing of server.
Asked about the date of re-examination for the affected
students, Sibal said the government is not involved in the
process and the IIMs would have to decided on it as a large
number of students could not take the entrance test due to the
virus problem.
Expressing his concern over the issue, he said steps
should have been taken before to ensure that the examination
does not face any technical glitches. "We want that such
glitches do not occur again," he added.
The HRD Ministry yesterday sought a report from the
Convener of CAT Satish Deodhar on the disruption of the CAT
test being conducted by American firm Prometric for nearly
2.41 lakh candidates for admission into IIMs and a few other
B-Schools.
The computer-based test has been marred by technical
glitches from the very first day on Saturday. Students faced
problems in opening the computers at the exam centres in
Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Bhopal. |
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Updated :
Tuesday, 01 Dec 2009, 15:39 [IST] |
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