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Education Industry & Economy - Education Info-Tech - Trends Software glitch troubles CAT online debut 
Clueless: Students for the CommonAdmission Test 2009 for premier businessschools in the country, outside a centre inBangalore on Saturday. At many centresacross the country, students could not takethe exam due to server problems. - K. MuraliKumar Debabrata Das New Delhi/Ahmedabad, Nov. 28 Despite the economic slowdown, students are still upbeat about getting an MBA degree. More than two lakh candidates registered for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009, with the hope of getting admission into the country's leading management schools. According to Prometric, 2,41,582 candidates registered for CAT 2009. This is slightly lower than last year's number of candidates (2,46,000) who actually took the test. "I don't think the economic slowdown will affect hiring by the time placement season begins for our batch," said a candidate at Delhi's Fortune Institute of International Business, one of the exam centres But, one must always expect the unexpected. According to reports from across the country, the test was cancelled today due to technical glitches in 11 centres across nine cities. These are, however, teething problems. "The exam faced some local server issues. In some of the centres the local server crashed; in some centres students weren't able to use their user ID and password. "All of the issues were isolated local issues and were not because of the large number of students taking the exam," said a senior faculty member at TIME, a coaching centre for CAT aspirants. "The exam in Bhopal has been indefinitely postponed while other centres have given the students an alternative time slot according to the students' preference. Almost 200-250 students were not able to take the exam today," he added. Mr Satish Deodhar, CAT Convenor 2009, said, "All the stakeholders as well as the procedures are new and we understand there have been some glitches. "We wanted to keep our data secure with security software. In our efforts to do that, the security mechanism itself rendered the server slow." CAT online: Testing time for IIMs, Promteric too CAT to go online from this year More Stories on : Education | Education | Trends
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