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IIT IIM Grads introduce mouse to bell the CAT
Belling the CAT is going to require a mouse from the year 2009. And that is because the IIMs have been intensively consulting with various organizations to introduce computer based tests (CBT) for CAT from as early as year 2009. This step is being taken by the board because of the enormous logistical difficulties being faced in conducting paper based
traditional tests fairly for an ever increasing aspirant pool for the coveted institutions. IIMs in their frenzy have conveniently ignored the fact that this methodology may be biased against the aspirants from small towns and cities of the country who are substantially less computer savvy than their counterparts in the metropolitan cities. However, thanks to the determined efforts of a team of IIT & IIM graduates hailing from small towns, the bias based out of digital divide will be eliminated much before CAT 2009. They have come up with a free online test series (www.catindiaonline.com) where anyone can take mock CAT tests free of cost to make oneself familiar with online testing framework. “The CATIndiaOnline framework has been designed while keeping the regular aspirants from small cities and towns. It’s very light weight and performs quite well over a dial up connection which is what many aspirants may have access to in the remote cities and towns” maintains Mayank Goel, one of the founders. However, this is not all, in fact not even the beginning. “CATIndiaOnline gives rigorous analysis of an aspirant’s performance as well as insightful recommendations to improve his/her preparation on the fly, which will be a boon for any CAT aspirant anywhere in the country” says Rahul Luthra, an IIMA student who got a percentile of 100 in CAT 2006 and volunteered to help the team in conceptualizing the rich features. The analysis provided for a test taken on CATIndiaOnline is much more rigorous than the analysis possible for a paper based mock test. The reason being CATIndiaOnline test series can accurately monitor the time one has spent on individual questions thereby helping aspirants to improve their time management skills, one’s performance in various topics thereby determining one’s areas of strengths and weaknesses accurately as well as one’s performance in questions of various different difficulty level. This kind of analysis is challenging to do for an aspirant who is taking paper based tests. However, CATIndiaOnline test series and associated intelligent & patent-pending algorithms, one gets this analysis done for him/her instantaneously. The team therefore, strongly recommends it for CAT 2008 aspirants to give it a try. To all the aspirants and the CATIndiaOnline team - best of luck!
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