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Drunk man who forgot to take CAT allowed rescheduled date too!

scaled.drunk-cat-couch-potato.jpgTill last year you probably wouldn’t dream of partying a night before the CAT. However, this year, all you had to do if you were unable to take the CAT because of a hangover, is hit the ‘resend’ button.

One such candidate, Rohit Awasthi who works in the marketing department of PaGaLGuY.com did just that and was promptly given a new appointment for a retest on December 6, 2009 at Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai. Awasthi says, “I was partying till 3:00 am, got drunk and couldn’t take the test. Hence I got it rescheduled”. He was earlier supposed to take the test on November 28 at the same center. Prometric did not find it necessary to check if he had taken the exam before or simply been absent from it. And this is just one candidate.

Allwin Agnel, another candidate and coincidently the CEO of PaGaLGuY.com did not even have to resend his admit card. He found a new admit card for a new appointment on December 8, 2009. He had taken the test successfully on November 28 and had not even placed a request to reschedule his test. The reasons for rescheduling are unknown as candidate care services say that they do have the record of his test.

There is a third category of problems that should worry you the most. And that is Prometric calling candidates to take the test again because they were ‘unable to find any of his answer files there’. One such student who received a new admit card thought it was due to an error (pt. no 15 on the FAQ page at www.catiim.in says that if a candidate receives an email or SMS for rescheduling the test even after successfully taking it, he should ignore it). However, Candidate care services called him later asking him to take the test again because of the above reason. Read more such stories on PaGaLGuY forums.


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Midhun Menon
#101 December 08, 2009, 10:51 am

HI….One of my friend(we took coaching for CAT together in TIME cochin) got job in CTS and left to hyd.As his center ws cochin and hyd is away and its training for him he said he is not goin to take test.Our test ws on Dec 4th.I took the test.But he didnt.On dec 6th he forwarded me a mail that he got from prometric stating that “Thank you for scheduling your exam with Prometric, a leading worldwide provider of comprehensive technology-based testing and assessment services. Your appointment request has been received and confirmed”.He got a new slot on Dec 8th(though he is not gonna take test).

anon
#102 December 08, 2009, 11:16 am

Hey PG guys.. Can you put it on some newspaper ? Let this get more publicity. What a joke CAT has become. After all this I don’t want to join even if I get a seat in the IIMs. Btw, there is lot of hype about IIMs only in India. Outside India, nobody has even heard of them. They pale in comparision to international institutes like hardvard, stanford. This online CAT has made the case stronger. Hope they conduct a re-exam and save their face!

Rakesh Kumar
#103 December 08, 2009, 11:18 am

check out dis puys:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Students-can-move-HC-over-CAT-fiasco/articleshow/5312720.cms

raghavbadiger
#104 December 08, 2009, 11:21 am

I expressed my problems through “contact us” option. Let me see what happens next.

Arpita Dessai
#105 December 08, 2009, 11:30 am

Hahahaha… Billi ko chuha khaa gaya… :D

manjushaa
#106 December 08, 2009, 11:39 am

@shivangi:lol!hilarious pic yaar:) n i’m not sure whether i should laugh or cry after reading this.

kinscool
#107 December 08, 2009, 11:47 am

Hi…even one of my friend has also received another invitation to attend the exam,he had already given test on 29th…oh! gwaad pluzee save uss!

prem_ravi
#108 December 08, 2009, 12:05 pm

Shivangi…Rohit looks cute & fat in the PIC

zboy_123
#109 December 08, 2009, 12:30 pm

hehe mast fotu!!

Aditi Singhi
#110 December 08, 2009, 12:51 pm

how good prometric is, how organised… (pun intended)

dasarp.urug
#111 December 08, 2009, 1:06 pm

hmm…this only shows Prometric’s sincerity in ensuring that no candidate misses out on giving the exam whatever reason he may have missed…lol…also candidates will be allowed multiple attempts and only their worst scores be considered for final evaluation…

youthfull
#112 December 08, 2009, 1:09 pm

i wonder if IIM directors are reading all this….n if they do…even they need to be laughing at all this…this is such a GREEEEEAATT comedy….. of course they being the protagonists in this,,,n v the poor audience (read sufferers)

chymerra
#113 December 08, 2009, 1:27 pm

oh give us a break PG…everybody is already stressed out..what`s next? yellow journalism a la hindi news channels?

watta fakkk
#114 December 08, 2009, 1:30 pm

hey how come all of this stuff is not in papers.
Come on guys dont blame IIMS after all they are management institutes an got into a entirely different domain on technology. [:P]
poor guys should have taken the help of BITS philani.

pauper
#115 December 08, 2009, 2:19 pm

Seems like Promteric is proud of the way it has conducted the CAT. They have the audacity to come out with such crap press releases even when the ‘oh-so-mighty-world-famous’ IIM’s have decided to re-consider their contract with them,

http://testfunda.com/examprep/catcentre/cat-&-mba-info/article/prometric-and-iims-test-a-record-number-of-candidates-for-cat-2009.htm?assetid=e053fd01-51ea-4fb2-a8cb-ec75284b4fe9

mousie
#116 December 08, 2009, 3:13 pm

gr8… bas yeh bhi sunanae ke liyae baki tha….
will someone bring these things to the notice of these IIMs and Prometric……
These news are really surprising….. CAT par sei bharosa udgaya…..

sameer3105
#117 December 08, 2009, 3:43 pm

@Shivangi…I have heard a strange news lately.There are some candidates,as I have heard,have taken 25-30 minutes extra for completing the paper online.As we all have been hearing,once the system is shut down,the paper continues from where it was when the system was booted.Taking advantage of this situation,some candidates have arbitrarily booted their systems by simply pressing the Power button of CPU and meanwhile utilized time solving a few problems.Even,the CPU at my test-centre was kept at the bottom with a very little legspace,so chances are minimal that this is going to be captured on Cameras/CCTVs.This was about one of the centres at Kolkata.

sameer3105
#118 December 08, 2009, 3:47 pm

Please don’t forget to include this under your fourth category of problems.

abhishekgauri99
#119 December 08, 2009, 3:58 pm

kal ke cat ke baad koi bhi khabar badi nahi lagti hai

crazy_puru
#120 December 08, 2009, 4:06 pm

Guys please check the link in Hyd times..My sis told me this morning about it..
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5312642.cms

mars9000
#121 December 08, 2009, 4:59 pm

useless Prometric. such a waste of everything.

jaisriram
#122 December 08, 2009, 5:25 pm

Prometric sucks bigtime. IIMs are useless…. no point in going to any IIM…..

smartgurl
#123 December 08, 2009, 5:30 pm

what a mess CAT has been this year, and this bit tops the list! Prometric has made it all a joke..i had heard of people takng advantage of the technical drama happening at most centers by asking for more time..and getting it as welll quite conveniently..

one of the most sought after tests managed so poorly…and we students have to pay for it..such a waste

johnpeters
#124 December 08, 2009, 5:38 pm

Whoa! Of all things we hv ben hearing all these days, this was just wot was left! Height of poorly managing a big test like cat…

SIMRAN
#125 December 08, 2009, 6:09 pm

watt a fuss ths cat n prometric stuff ve created..!!! hope all thes blunder would b overcome by 22nd jan….!!!so jus wait n watch….!!

JUHI DUTTA
#126 December 08, 2009, 7:38 pm

tell all this to IIMs so that they consider CAT retest at the earliest .

jokajunoon
#127 December 08, 2009, 8:47 pm

this doesnt deserve to be the front page news!!

Nikesh
#128 December 08, 2009, 9:20 pm

hahhah thank god!!!!!!!!!!! i was very disappointed becoz i couldnt take very well…now am happy..am sure prometric will give me high score…road to iims..

mahesh88
#129 December 08, 2009, 9:52 pm

prometric big story of fiasco.. never expected at all

dinesh.sarv
#130 December 09, 2009, 12:45 am

I really don’t understand the entire fiasco…….I have got nothing against Prometric or the IIM’s company, but why prometric is not willing to take the blame for this large scale failure. They could not arrange the reuired infra. They have wasted students time, patience and money. Instead they are putting the blame on a computer virus which could be detected by any anti-virus….

Today there was an article in ToI, that the CAT committee is going to review the entire episode. After going through the posts here and the episodes happening across the country(read: people taking unfair advantage of this situation), I’m slowly losing out hopes. Lets see how “fairly” results are declared.

Attila123
#131 December 09, 2009, 5:01 am

Guess prometric guys were also drunk when they planned on how to conduct the exam.

sivaram_42
#132 December 09, 2009, 6:42 am

something to cheer abt for all of us… here is the link in TOI abt IIMs contemplating for a retest.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IIMs-mull-over-holding-another-CAT-in-paper-pencil-format/articleshow/5317004.cms

iimmaterial
#133 December 09, 2009, 7:08 am

http://www.hindustantimes.com/CAT-chaos-over-time-to-say-sorry/H1-Article1-484487.aspx. check this . but sorry will not save the day for iims .only a RETEST will.

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Sandy.Rai
#134 December 09, 2009, 8:32 am

this is a complete shocker and ridiculous. i am sure, never in their wildest dream, prometric team would have thought about this. But, that was a smart work, Rohit. hats off to you dude. Prometric team would go red face after reading these incidents. feels good to read such funny incidents early in the morning. i’ve got only one thing to say. Wake Up Prometric. u’ve not done ur homework properly and u’ve got many loop holes to be fixed.

Mplex
#135 December 09, 2009, 9:35 am

Why not do away with all types of testing and just pull names out of a hat?

Mplex
#136 December 09, 2009, 9:47 am

I don’t blame the IIMs here. They gave the contract to Prometric, who didn’t do a such a bad job of organising either. The test went very smoothly at my center. However, there WAS a guy sitting apart waiting for his comp to be fixed when I finished my test. I don’t know if he utilised that waiting period well or not, but even fifteen minutes can make or break the situation in an exam like CAT.

RaTHESUNGOD
#137 December 09, 2009, 10:33 am

Ok puys.. Lots of Debates are going on.. But I wont blame neither .. you as we say in the corporate world “Happens man” …. mistakes always happens…

For IIMs and prometric they got the money..
And about reputations …who cares …they are the people who teach marketing.. so they will build their brand value again

As usuall it is the customer who has to suffer

typical market product : CAT

PRUDENTGEMINI
#138 December 10, 2009, 12:27 am

PUYS IN AN EMBARASSED ATTEMPT THAT I MADE AT MY CENTRE IN DELHI, MY TEST STARTED WELL ONLY TO BE CROWDED BY GUYS WHOSE TEST WAS NOT YET STARTED AND THE IRONY IS THAT NO ONE SHOOED THE GUYS AWAY WHO WERE INTERRUPTING MY ATTEMT…MOREOVER I WAS SO FED UP THAT I ABORTED THE TEST AND BELIEVE ME THAT I AM HIGHLY DEJECTED AFTER BEING AN ASPIRANT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. WHO WILL PAY FOR THIS LOST OPPORTUNITY. I HAVE A PLAN PUYS…WHY DONT WE START A COMMUNITY AND ALL THE VOLUNTEERS TOGETHER WILL FILE A CASE AGAINST PROMETRIC AND IIMs, CAUSE ITS NOT A JOKE TO BE PREPARING A YEAR LONG AND ENDING UP IN VAIN. THE CASE SHALL GET US A YEARS FEE OF IIM AS COMPENSATION OR A SEAT IN IIM OR DIRECT ENTRY TO THE GD/PI ROUND. WHAT SENSE DOES IT MAKE HAVING A RESTEST? ARE WE FOOLS TO HAVE ALREADY WASTED A HECK LOT OF TIME ALREADY SPECIALLY FOR THE D-DAY WHEN WE WERE MADE TO SIT FOR LONG HOURS AS IF WE WERE DEJECTED AND REJECTED MANAGERS, GOOD FOR NOTHING…SITTING AT THE PITY OF FEW MIS-MANAGED B-SCHOOLS SPECIALLY THE IIMs. LET US RAISE OUT VOICE AGAINT THIS UNFAIR PLAY THAT HAS RIPPED OUR DIGNITY APART. BECAUSE IF WE LET THIS GO WITHOUT ANY ACTION, SORRY BUT I FEEL THAT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE A MANAGER. IF I CANNOT AFFORD TO CORRECT A BLUNDER AGAINST ME, HOW DOES ONE EXPECT ME AS A MANAGER, DO ANY GOOD?

lordsom
#139 December 10, 2009, 5:54 am

Nice!…Keep drinking and chillax!….there’s nothing more I can add to that

Neema
#140 December 10, 2009, 12:46 pm

Man…. this is getting too much now…. tht way even i can reschedule my test…. My overall exam was ok but there were 4 questions in DI which dint have questions only… there was a problem and answer choices… there were no questions…. What was i suppose tro attempt?? when i asked the invigilator … he said we hv no idea abt it u can report tthis ltr but plz right now u complete the exam…. i had to attempt the paper without 4 problms…where each mark is important in this exam there r no questions in the exam…. n whn ppl can get to give exam due to hangover this is a far more genuine reason…. why can tthey jus conduct a paper based test ?? Its even gone to HRD now… why cant they jus be fair….

buntysujal
#141 December 10, 2009, 6:18 pm

so true, Neema. why shouldn’t we get the advantage too! the test has to be fair. lakhs of students put in months of hard work preparing for it, they cant just take us for a ride!!

ayneil85
#142 December 10, 2009, 6:50 pm

all those who are not satisfied with CBT CAT the way its been conducted coupled with own experiences please fill the form in http://www.catiim.in website contact us link with their names n cat ids.for last one week aspirants are filling the form.. link was given n shared here also but as IIM N PROMETRIC is collecting data now after so called successful conclusion of cat yesterday 8 dec ..its high time those who havent filled it and want to do..to execute it ASAP..fill with genuine details n about problems faced wd test part questions.. clarity of graphs..ppl gettin more time .. keeping in mind all this fill it.there is a news final decision would be taken 2-3 days 4m nw after collecting all data and complains.if the number of complains reaches more than ten thousand there is chance for a retest.. so act accordingly and immediately …to all who arent satisfied in any way and want a retest…if already filled plzzz ignore ds msg ..pass this to ur frnds..cheers

lalitsinghjodha
#143 December 13, 2009, 12:38 pm

Hey PG guys.. Can you put it on some newspaper ? Let this get more publicity. What a joke CAT has become. After all this I don’t want to join even if I get a seat in the IIMs. Btw, there is lot of hype about IIMs only in India. Outside India, nobody has even heard of them. They pale in comparision to international institutes like hardvard, stanford. This online CAT has made the case stronger. Hope they conduct a re-exam and save their face!

minakshee kumar
#144 December 13, 2009, 1:42 pm

this year CAT was like a silly joke…..where everythng ws on luck!!!!!

Arpita
#145 December 14, 2009, 1:45 pm

Guys…
After reading all your posts,i feel im more confused now.. :P
Actually..my CAT went on 3rd, but i was recieving a mail from prometric saying that i havent completed my profile..which if i dont then, IIMs wont consider my application but when i went 2 my profile, i saw nothing like that. Gosh ..still they were sending me mails regarding this for a week now.

KUSHWAHA MK
#146 December 14, 2009, 6:59 pm

The questions did not deserve to be of CAT standard, one of my friends finished paper in 45 minutes. A hard retest must be done otherwise irreversible damage would be done

finman
#147 December 14, 2009, 9:07 pm

I filled the form on the last day of extended date. I had an inkling then that it would be fun taking this exam online. First there was a lot of chaos in selecting the centre. While the slots were available, the server did not support properly to assign the chosen centre and slot. Finally had to take whatever centre was assigned by hit and trial method.
At the centre, the stress was more on keeping everything, other than admit card, voucher and ID proof outside the centre. So there was a long queue of candidates submitting their belongings. In fact at my centre in Bangalore there were 2 levels of submission. One for bags etc and the second for wallet, watch (yes they asked to open the normal analogue watch as well), mobiles etc. After that just at the enterance, they asked to remove caps and handkerchiefs as well.
I enquired explicitly if water is available inside as i had to submit my water bottle, to which they answered with such certainty that i felt guilty of undermining their preparations. How could i underestimate their level o preparation after seeing this 2-3 level of submission of belongings.
At the centre, i quite liked the idea of web cam and fingerprints etc. In fact this kind of arrangement shall be made mandatory for any standard exam as it eliminates chances of impersonation.
However, once seated i realized the fun that i was going to have. There was no drinking water. So many systems were having problems of different kind. people were being shifted from one system to another and the most important announcement was not to panic in case of abrupt ending of session or any other technical glitch.
I was amazed to see as to why the demo part would not run a second time, just in case someone wanted to check something again.
Finally the shocker, the figures were not coming for quant questions. However they loaded once i moved ahead and came back to the same questions. I think there were 4 such question. Each time the figure would take good 5-6 seconds to load.
While it was a bold decision on the part of IIMs to go online, they would do well to conduct a retest in the interest of so many candidates who would have taken this exam with all sincerity.
They should have checked the capabilities of their partner before. They should now have the grace to accept their mistake and conduct a retest this year. next year they can come back with the computer aided test with lessons well taken from this year.

vijay
#148 December 14, 2009, 9:34 pm

Drunk CAT who forgot to take CAT allowed rescheduled date too!

ayneil85
#149 December 15, 2009, 12:12 pm

I request all the puys to send all the problems(highlighting the malpractice and paper leakage, than technical glitches) to Ms Vidha puri das(Secretary Higher Education) .
The meeting will be headed by her on 16th dec (Wed).They will take final call on that day.Guys spread it like a fire.
Mail ID:
secy.dhe@nic.in

Aakash
#150 December 15, 2009, 5:58 pm

What an ass

PSP
#151 December 15, 2009, 6:01 pm

The thing is, we have applied to a hell lot of institutes also, which would be considering the CAT score. God knows, whether this score will actually predict our abilities……this is one thing I truly dread…..what a sheer waste of time and money!!

ishugupta
#152 December 15, 2009, 8:25 pm

If i wud have known this probably i too wud have used my franchise of giving cat again….

jo
#153 December 20, 2009, 11:29 pm

Frankly, i don’t think we should put down the IIMs as most of us seem to be doing. The IIMs are and should be revered for what they are. I agree they must take corrective action for the test takers, and Prometric must take responsibility too, but i dont see why we need to spread hatred against the IIMs or anyone else.

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