In India, admissions to the prestigious Management institutes such as IIMs are accepted through a common entrance test called CAT. Every year, lakhs of students participate in the examinations for the few thousands seats. The test is therefore fiercely contested.
Authorities have now proposed that from next year onwards, CAT examinations will be made online like the GMAT and GRE.
While the development is considered a natural progression of technology, in view of the competition involved, there is a serious concern that the CAT process will be vulnerable to malpractices of various kinds.
In the past, the CET examination results in Bangalore have witnessed result manipulation by hacking and there has been alleged question paper leaks in CAT examination in the previous years.
It is therefore a reasonable risk perception that the online examination for CAT will be a target for manipulators of various kinds.
One possibility is that the online CAT question bank can be hacked. The other possibility is that the scoring mechanism may be tampered with. Additionally political and financial influence may corrupt the insiders into committing frauds.
It is therefore necessary for CAT administrators to build a security system which can withstnd every possible security risk.
As per the sketchy reports available, there will be a few versions of the test with similar difficulty levels and tests would be conducted in batches by a private concern. No other details are now available.
It is necessary for the CAT administrators to not only set up the necessary security systems but also provide confidence to the public by being transparent about the security procedures.
For example p would like to know what security audits would be conducted and at what intervals and by whom to ensure integrity of the examinations.
We hope CAT administrators make appropriate disclosures to ensure that public will be confident that merit and not money or political influence can get the desired CAT scores .
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackPublic must remember that way back in 2005 BITS Pilani which is one among the top ranking universities in India today, introduced the pioneering online exam BITSAT for admissions partnering with Ediquity Bangalore. IIMs taking CAT online is a welcome and bold move but telling that results of online CAT will not appear instantly like GRE, GMAT and BITSAT seems to be the joke of the century. Is the CAT online or on the wall?
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There are few sites which has good free question bank and you can practise online mock test and nice part getting rank
10aday.com – Free CAT questions.
VidyaCenter.com – Free CAT quesiton bank. See their diagnostic section, instant ranking, also u can see who is getting ahead of you, track rank
PreTest.co.in : good site with GRE/GMAT
http://youdowetest.com also provides unlimited number of free tests for many management exams like GMAT, CAT, MAT, XAT and more.
It also has very good papers for GATE students also.
Register there and enjoy the free stuff
Cheers 🙂
Umesh
there are a number of sites like TestFunuda.com also which offer online services for CAT. So CAT aspirants definately dont have a dearth of materials.
CAT aspirants should not feel like there is a dearth of material online. there are many sites offering online software like ttestfunda.com which can really help out
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