Today is CAT 2009 first day in India and for the first day of the online exam itself, servers in Bangalore, Chennai, Bhopal and Lucknow have crashed! India being a very advanced country when it comes to technology really needs to stop making fun of itself like this.
CAT which means Common Admission Test is an exam which must be done by MBA aspirants aiming the top Business Schools in India. The exam has always been a paper and pencil one. However for this year, India decided to introduce an online exam for CAT!
A majority of students were not really convinced of this amateur online system and finally it showed on the first day itself how AMATEUR their whole network is! On the first day itself servers crashed due to the huge number of people participating in these tests. In a nutshell, this means bad planning and poor equipments!
Update: Apparently the whole network for this exam was set up by an American company “Prometric”. And we wonder why to allocate this job to a US company when India itself can do this work!
Many students prepared their exam having in mind that the exam will be a paper-pen one and only 6 months ago they were informed that the exam will be an online one. Finally many students were not able to do so as the system itself was unavailable due to server crash.
The number of students for CAT exam has also decreased this year in India due to the SUDDEN introduction of this online exam. Many poor student were mentally preparing for the normal pen and paper exam. However after hearing that the exam is online, some did not move forward for it.
And as the cherry of it all, these server crash is a sign of being a total clown on the international level. In the coming days we’ll say “India can’t even do an online exam”. (Which is not true but is what many people out of India will think!)
Re-Edited:Kurt. We apologise for some of the previous innacurate information which we got before publishing this article.
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Dr Reddy
Well Abhinav you are a good patriot. I like it. No doubt you love your country like most Indians. But you have no manners you have to admit. That is why people like you get problems everywhere( like the problems students got in Australia recently. I am not an Indian but I visited most of the cities and many places, institutions and what not. No doubt Indian brains are really Brains but they have been formed in America and elsewhere. I am 100% Mauritian and Mauritius has no resources but tries to be the No. 1 in the African continent in spite of the fact that it became independent only in 1968 unlike India which got its independence in 1947. I am not boasting of my country. You just have to compare Singapore, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and other countries in the region and you will know what progress they have achieved in a short span of time. India has the second largest population, first is China. But see the way the Chinese are progressing when they are being boycotted by America and its allies. It is a pleasure to walk in the streets of Shanghai and other cities in China. The Chinese never boast of themselves and behave in a much better way. You have a lot to learn. Start now. It is never late.
.-= dr reddy´s last blog ..Proximity with a Spiritual Master =-.
Sharon Lopez
CAT 2009 Servers Crash in India on First Day! http://bit.ly/6e0HYU
Vasco
Fire ….it’s the war ……Indians Vs Mauritians……
ok what i have to say is Imo India is very much able to do Online exams…great ….
but why give it to An american company when india itself could have done …what happened is That SOMEONE has sincerely tried to steal money the way it always happen in India and Mru too!!
no big deal about that ! (its so common)
Anyway …if the exam fails then it will be retaken by the student …..i don’t see Indian pride being killed on international community because a stuff like that happen ….
how can a country criticize the exam failure (and claiming india suck at web ) when they themselves haven’t even step up in the web !
Come guys ..i know all you guy’s blood have boiled but please the post have been modified …so no flaming please
.-= Vasco´s last blog ..Re: SKYPE =-.
Abhinav Sarja
No need to laugh at us(India)…. Whatever happened today is an issue!!! but not very big!!!! Its blown out of proportion…..
People who are mocking the abilities of Indian brains….- Try spending an hour solving few questions normally meant as a foundation for CAT preperation….
You will get to know what we are made off!!!!!
Vasco
@Abhinav Sarja,
well we have SAT and Cambridge HSC(even france’s “Bacaleaureat”) …in mauritius …we speak english and french …. a lot of us speak either italian or spanish (some even speak German)
well i’ve seen some question of CAT (i’m not sure if its the right one though) but well it seems we Mauritian could take those question
but i’m not sure …the best will be someone bring up a question CAT and we’ll see…if we fail ,bad luck ,we pass ,good luck!
what i can say is that westerns tend to get the idea that indian are Rote learner ..meaning they learn all by heart…..come ..even in films it is depicted like that !
.-= Vasco´s last blog ..Re: SKYPE =-.
The Maze
Maybe you Indians will even say that you went to the moon in 1958 and we Americans did it with 10 years of lateness!
dr reddy
Indians are good at defending India but really they are good for nothing. Only Bla Bla Bla… When you go there then only you see how backward they are.
What online exams they can hold. It will definitely crash and crash again.
They can only show off and nothing more.
.-= dr reddy´s last blog ..Andhra Day Celebrations in Mauritius =-.
Abhinav
@dr reddy, (I highly doubt you are a doctor though!!!!)
surprising comments….Being in a country which survives mostly on tourism,
you have made a really bold comment!!!!
India is the economically second fastest growing country (china is the first) ….
You have left this country i guess!!!! be there…. dont even make a comment on us… we will bring this country to a place much above without you morons…..
Vasco
@Abhinav,
hoho dear …the truth is you may get more money than us ,…then …so what!!
we are happier than you are guys…..
=-.
since we have a lot of tourist we get to have tons of sex with them ( jk)
.-= Vasco´s last blog ..Re: Happy Birthday Smeet aka Smeeessssssssssssss!!!
STEVIE BARRARD
i was scheduled to write cat 2moro.but inspite of the reassurances given by the iims tat tis amateur oline test a success on the first place,its deemed a failure.lol
Vishal Jhalani
well stop being a chauvinist and we all know that Indian got IQ’s much higher than americans n most R&D teams around the world have Indian brains but its just that we mind our own affair
Prakhar Agrawal
Out of 102 centres, if 11 fail that roughly amounts to 10%. This is indeed a huge ratio, but Prometric alone is to blame for it.
.-= Prakhar Agrawal´s last blog ..CAT 2009 Update 2: The World Laughs at INDIA =-.
Abhirup
Most of us have internet connection at home. We are not allowed to appear for CAT from home and are being made to pay money for centers just to ensure examination opacity, nothing else.
So, just don’t think India can’t afford this or that. And also, this mistake is not due to IIMs. Actually IIMs made a mistake in consulting an US company,Prometric. How would ever a US company know about India’s problems? So, it did not keep enough servers ready, thinking it would manage in the same way as GRE/GMAT which have far fewer cadidates.
So, the fools responsible are the US people, who think everything in this world is based on US model.