The biggest surprise for CAT-2009 aspirants would be the new format of CBT. From this year, CAT would no longer be a written test and it would be a computer based test.
Director of TIME Mr. Murty says that the CBT format is not an online test, it is only a computer based test and it does not prescribe for any change in the preparation methodology. There is no offline version of the test and it can be taken only at the designated 25 centres spread across the nation. The test will be conducted during a window period of 10 days starting in the last week of November.
The final dates will be notified through an advertisement.
According to an earlier IIM release, the centres will be under both electronic surveillance and manual invigilation. IIM has also mentioned about bio-metric means of identifying a candidate like finger prints or iris scan, the details of which are awaited.
Each candidate will be provided with a writing pad with numbered pages for calculations and rough work. The writing pad with all pages intact must be left at the desk, after the test. Rough work cannot be done on any other paper or sheet.
Since, the CBT- CAT will be conducted during a ten-day period; the most likely scenario is that students in each slot will get a different paper, which means more number of CAT papers.
The format of the test will remain more or less the same as that of the earlier paper and pencil tests.
The only difference is that the candidate would read the question(s) on the computer terminal and would click on the answer on the screen instead of darkening the ovals on an OMR sheet.
The IIMs are expected to standardise the tests to ensure that all the tests are of the same difficulty level.
In addition to this they might also normalise scores to iron out any differences in the difficulty leve
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