Govt seeks report on CAT fiasco

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.

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.