IIMs speculate to set up own online testing firm

Updated on: Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are mulling over a plan to set up their own online testing firm in order to conduct the computerized Common Aptitude Test (CAT).

The IIMs came up with the plan after several technical glitches and errors had been reported in the first online CAT that was conducted last year.

An IIM director informed that the IIMs had been working on the plan for some time but nothing had been finalized. "Due to the large number of applicants for CAT, we had made the test computerized from a paper-pencil one. Now, we feel that the IIMs must be able to have control over the computerization of the test in some way as well. It isn't a viable long-term option to employ other agencies for the same and so we came up with the plan to set up our own form for testing," he said.

The model that has been formulated by the IIMs for the testing firm says that the institutes would have complete control over the functioning of the firm but the actual execution of the test will not be by them.

According to another IIM director, the modalities for the establishment of the firm could still take some time as the issue requires consensus-building between all IIMs.

IIMs speculate to set up own online testing firm

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