New Delhi:
The Chairman of the IIM Directors' Forum, Samir Barua, addressed a press conference over the failure of the CAT (Common Admission Test) examination that went online this year.
Barua said that virus attacks caused the systems to fail. However, he said that the tests would be rescheduled.
"Those who could not take the test will be rescheduled. We empathise with students," said Barua.
PTI adds:Meanwhile, the director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is constantly in touch with his counterparts in other IIMs to solve the problems, institute officials said in Ahmedabad on Monday.
"This is for the first time that the computer-based CAT was introduced with a window of ten days. And as we saw, there were some initial hiccups during the delivery of exam," they said.
"This is an entirely a new experience for us where 2.41 lakh student are taking the on-line test," they added.
Barua has been in constant touch with other institutes since Sunday and is trying to find out a solution to the problem, they said.
The computer-based test was marred by technical glitches on the very first day on Saturday, soon after it started.
Students faced problems in logging at the exam centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Bhopal.
The problem continued on the second day as well. Hundreds of aspirants were unable to appear for the test as repairs were being carried out at nearly 50 labs in 24 centers where computers are said to have suffered a virus attack.