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For the past 33 years, the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have been conducting the Common Admission Test (CAT) in a paper-pencil format. But this year, the most important examination of India which promises to make best managers of the country took a new avatar - it went online and became a Computer-Based Test.
Giving CAT 2009 did not require one to be a computer geek; all that was needed was the basic understanding of mouse and keyboard usage. But to the dismay, the biggest Management exam Online CAT 2009 is now being written off as a foolish step.
We were apprehensive about the problems coming with CAT 2009 and we did write about it. Read here CAT 2009 to come with problems.
The test which is scheduled from Nov 28 and Dec 7 in 32 cities at 105 testing centers is connected to a main server. But the first-ever online CAT was cancelled at various centers in Chennai, Kolkata, Bhopal, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune.
Reason: Server Breakdown!
MeraCareerGuide.Com talked to an employee of “Prometric- The Company who is wholly responsible for conducting these tests.” More than 2.41 lakh students are appearing for the first online CAT test across the country in span of 10 days and there is no major outbreak of server crash, On the first day of CAT online the number of crash reported came to be around two thousand !! ( Hmm.....Do you think its a small number !!! 
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Few people are signing off saying “India can’t even do an online exam” to all those individuals, BITSAT, the first ever online exam in India takes the crown and glory of being first ever completely computerized exam which went flawless from its very first execution and remains untainted.