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Parinama Weekender May 3, 2009

Everyone knows the CAT exams are the toughest exam for MBA admission in India. From this year CAT examinations will be conducted online. This will be a 10 day affair at the end of the year. One definitive advantage of online tests is that any number of candidates can take the test without much administrative expenses from IIMs.

The format of the test is yet to to be decided. Its also not known if it will be computer adaptive test or a fixed test. GRE and GMAT use a bin of questions and present the questions randomly to the test takers. The questions are recycled and so are the bins. The tests will be conducted by Prometric.

Many coaching institutes like Career Launcher, Time etc have prepared them selves for the online version of CAT. Several online test prep site have mushroomed to capitalize the situation. Some of them online test prep centers are TenADay, TCY and TestFunda.

Last week

Over 1 million candidates have appeared for AIEEE 2009 examination. We have published detailed analysis of the exam. UGC will be conducting National Eligibility Test (NET) on June 2009. AICTE has given new directions to support education of financially weak students. WBJEEB issues admit cards for JELET 2009 which will be conducted on May 17.

UCO Bank will be recruiting 261 Specialist Officers. SBI has published written exam results for clerks. Vizag Steel is recruiting Management Trainees. MP VYAPAM has issued notification for PAHUT 2009. Several examinations are postponed due to elections. Andhra Pradesh PSC has postponed the application procedure. PTU has postponed its examination to May 18.

Tip of the week

GMAT Test Prep company Kaplan released a GMAT prep application on Facebook this week. The application named ‘The Qbank Challenge’ is a daily three-question timed quiz which can be used individually and also as a challenge test with peers, said Kaplan’s official statement.

kaplan gmat facebook application

The questions are provided from the coaching institute’s preparation material and are available for GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Test), LSAT (Law School Admissions Test), MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) and NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination).

The most interesting things is that users can collect points by answering correctly and get them redeemed for the institute’s study material.