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IIM site hangs, lakhs clueless about results
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New Delhi/Bangalore: After the computer servers crashed on the first online common admission test (CAT) for B-schools, the results fared no better with a glitch-ridden system causing untold agony to lakhs of students. For more than three hours on Sunday, students couldn’t see their results on www.cat.iim.in, which couldn’t take the excess load. The problem was fixed only after 6p
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City boy bells the CAT
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TOPPER 24-year-old Pitampura resident scores a perfect 100 percentile in new online format ( )
I studied for three to four hours every day for three months. I was expecting a 99.7 or 99.8 percentile.
On Sunday, Vivek Gupta (24) discovered that he had scaled a height that only few can reach.
Not only had he cracked the Common Admission Test (CA
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IIMs to court more women,arts students
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The Indian Institutes of Management(IIMs) are preparing to add more colour to
campuses,taking in students from diverse disciplines in an attempt to reflect
the changing dynamics of the corporate world.
from a time when these institutes churned out an assembly line of graduates
essentially from engineering and pure science backgrounds,the post-graduate
programme in
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CAT result likely in 10 days
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The wait would soon be over for those aspiring to get into the country''s top business schools with result for the first computer based Common Admission Test 2009 expected to be announced in the coming 7-10 days, an Indian Institute of Management professor told ET.
Prof Satish Deodhar,CAT convenor,had earlier said that results will be announced in the third week of january. However,it appears
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CAT scores may cont for this year
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After all the hullabaloo over the Common Admission Test(CAT) online launch,some of the Indian Institutes of Managementhave decided to rework the formula for selecting the candidates,reducing the weightage for the CAT score.
For instance ,IIM-Kozhikode -which placed the highest weightage on CAT scores all these years,90 points-has proposed reducing it to 50 points."This year ,we plan to consider
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Dogged CAT results to get delayed
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Results of the glitch-ridden computerised edition of the Common Admission Test 2009, for admissions to the elite B-schools in the
country, may be delayed.
While the convenor of the exam told ET that the results could be delayed by a few days from the originally-scheduled January 22, another person close to the developments said it could stretch to February 2010.
The exam was conducted onli
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IIM-A to revamp Placement System
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The Indian Institute of Management here has decided to make drastic changes in the recruitment and placement system for its students from the current academic year.
The institute has decided to switch over from the present "daily recruitment basis" to "cohort-based placement process" from February, 2010, IIM-A placement committee chairman Saral Mukherjee said.
The new system was finalised o
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