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March 2010 / Times of India / Bangalore Edition
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 Glitches dog CAT results too
Overloaded Server Crashes
New Delhi/Bangalore: After computer servers crashed on the first online common admission test for B-schools, the results fared no better with a glitch-ridden system causing untold agony to lakhs of students. For more than three hours on Sunday, students couldn’t see their results on www.cat.iim.in, which was on the fritz because it couldn’t take the excess load. The problem was fixed only after 6 pm.
The candidates were informed about the blocking of scorecards at 3.45 pm through a terse web message: “We are experiencing unusually heavy load on scorecard access server. We’ll reopen the server after three hours.’’ Not surprisingly, perhaps, the convener of the CAT committee, Satish Deodhar, could not be contacted all through Sunday.
Meanwhile, only IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Shillong declared the list of shortlisted candidates on Sunday. The other six IIMs are expected to release their list over the next two days.
Sunday’s glitch upped tension levels among students. Sumana S (name changed), a private firm employee, couldn’t stop weeping after trying to access her result. “I worked hard for CAT. This is my third attempt and I really want to make it. I’ve been trying to access my CAT score for three hours now. My register number doesn’t feature in either IIM-Ahmedabad or Shillong. I am getting worried,’’ she said.
Ahmed (name changed), a final year engineering student, said he learnt about the results in the morning but got to see them only in the evening. “When I logged on, the website was flashing that the results were declared. When I clicked on it, I got a dead page. I kept trying. But some people could access the results in between. There was an announcement from IIMs that the results will be declared at 3 pm, then it got postponed to 6.45 pm. But we got the results before that,’’ he explained.
By the end of the day, the candidates got their results, much to their relief. |
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