Crash, bang, poof. Online CAT exam rescheduled across many cities.

First day, flop show. Due to ‘overload’, a lot of centers have had to cancel the CAT exam. This is a huge blow to the Prometric driven CAT undertaking. This news has been carried across all prominent TV channels already. I am linking up some of the stories that have already gone online from the newspapers. Some of the PG HQ folks including me were attending the first day first show and will have more updates for you soon. I was able to take the exam today in Mumbai, but it was delayed by a couple of hours. A more detailed post on the experience will come on PG soon.

Here are the links for the CAT outage, please feel free to post more links as you find more news.

ET: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5278923.cms

Zee News: http://www.zeenews.com/news582913.html

Meri news: http://www.mynews.in/News/CAT_exam_cancelled_in_9_cities_as_server_crashed_N31312.html

Have a chat with people on the forums, direct from the source : https://testing.pagalguy.com/discussions/cat-servers-crash-exam-rescheduled-25046755

Update: Soumitra Roy, Managing Director, India, Prometric says “The CAT 2009 has certainly not been cancelled in any of the test centres. In fact, thousands of tests were successfully delivered in hundreds of test centres throughout India. To accommodate the maximum number of candidates, Prometric and IIMs delayed the start of the morning session by about half an hour. As a result of isolated technical issues some candidates are being rescheduled and provided a new appointment via email and SMS.”