My random thoughts on the online CAT

I got a call from one of the students in Mumbai whose test had got cancelled in one of the colleges in Mumbai. He received a communication that the test is re-scheduled. Fantastic! Only problem is – the test centre is at Lucknow!

Then there is this disclaimer joke – which when translated to English goes [...]

Important Advisory by GP for CAT-2009 Test takers

Dear IIM Aspirant,
Ever since I contacted the 7 IIM Directors via email, bringing to their notice the various unfortunate issues that have plagued CAT’09, I have received a number of mails enquiring if Career Launcher, as an organization, can file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on this issue. On consultation with our legal advisers, we [...]

Firm conducting CAT leaked data?

MUMBAI: Prometric, the company conducting the online Common Admission Test (CAT) to the IIMs, has been at the receiving end for the chaos and technological breakdowns plaguing the test this year. Now there are allegations that Prometric leaked the list of candidates registered for CAT to an online coaching portal.
Soon after registering for CAT, MBA [...]

CAT 2009 – A Management Case Study!

By R Shiva Kumar, Director- R&D, Career Launcher (Alumni IIMC-1997)
From Shivku’s Blog:
It was supposed to be a red letter day in the history of CAT – An “exam” that India is proud of. But a shocker of execution made it a disaster and an embarrassing day for the “theoreticians” of management studies.
I took my test in [...]

The great CAT 2009 Debacle – exerpt from Satya’s Blog

Latest CAT related entry from Career Launcher Chairman, Mr Satya Narayanan R’s Blog :
‘James Bond’ is a brand image for attributes such as sexy, irresistible, high IQ, can’t-go- wrong guy, the world bows to him, and so on.  The CAT guys think of themselves as ‘James Bond ka Baap’. It is just that their self-image [...]

Career Launcher’s letter to the IIMs

(The following letter was sent to the directors of the IIMs on 2nd December, 2009)
To
The Directors
IIM-A, B, C, L, K, I & S

Dear Sir(s),
I am writing this mail to you all as a long-time ambassador of the IIMs and an ardent well-wisher for CAT. As an alumnus of IIM-Bangalore, during my numerous interactions with MBA [...]

Important CAT related articles

Frequently Asked Questions: CAT 2009 – Rescheduling of Candidates – CATIIM

CAT 2009, test canceled, I want an apology – Rediff
CAT 2009: ‘Some navigation issues, but not bad’ – Rediff

Latest update on CAT

Based on broad feedback, received from most of the student community, number of questions has remained 60, with 20 questions in each of the sections. there was no major difference in terms of overall essence of the test over the last 4-5 days. Feel of the paper remained the same. There seems to be a [...]

CL Vice Chairman, Mr. Gautam Puri on CAT so far

Is there a noticeable pattern that you have observed in the past few days?

If you look at the paper, the pattern has not changed at all. By enlarge students are reporting that it is still a 60 questions paper, distributed equally between three sections - English, RC, Quant and DI. The level of questions also seems [...]

CAT 2009 Day 2 Analysis (29th November, 2009)

QA: The Quant. section has been mostly consistent over the last two days. There were questions from previous CATs as stated in the Ajab CAT ki Gajab Kahani video which featured on day one. There were some questions which were easy enough for just about anyone to solve and some others which could be simply [...]