Second phase of Common Admission Test (CAT) would be conducted on January 30 and 31

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have announced the second phase of Common Admission Test (CAT) would be conducted on January 30 and 31. The CAT exam results, could be declared by the third week of February. Reports the Business Standard

The IIMs have analysed the calls and e-mails received from the candidates, site reports filed by the site managers, computer logs, and gathered information from websites and blogs to arrive at a list of candidates for the second phase of the examination.

Candidates who would qualify to appear for test in the second phase include those who could not take the test due to planned or unplanned closure of their test labs and were not rescheduled later in the first phase; those who were rescheduled but could not appear for the test because of notice period of less than 48 hours. It also included those who were rescheduled but could not appear for the test as they were rescheduled in a city different from their original choice and those who pressed the End/Quit button within the first 120 minutes during the first three days of the testing window and have not been rescheduled yet.

Also, those who experienced difficulties due to various disruptions such as frozen computer screen, blank screen, and data/graphic elements not displaying properly; identified through site reports recorded at the test labs and have not been rescheduled yet will be eligible to appear for the second phase of CAT.

However, students who voluntarily did not appear for the exams will not be eligible to take the exams.

According to the statement, if a candidate in this category chooses not to take the rescheduled test, then his/her score from the first phase of testing will be retained. Other criteria include those who completed the test in more than 140 minutes of clock time due to computer disruptions, those who completed the test in 136 minutes to 140 minutes of clock-time due to computer disruptions would have an option to take the rescheduled test. Read Complete News at Business Standard