NIIT to handle online CAT

Bangalore: NIIT will be taking care of the infrastructure and administration of CAT, the common entrance test to Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), the country's premium business schools, which is being taken on computers for the first time this year, reports Economic Times.

The test will be held in around 200 private colleges across the country. An NIIT spokesman confirmed that the company has bagged a deal from U.S.-based Prometric, the world's largest computer-based testing service provider that is conducting the Common Admission Test (CAT) of IIMs, for providing test centres across the country.

Although he refused to give financial details, a company executive said that NIIT will get Rs.50-55 crore from Prometric, which bagged a $40 million deal from IIMs to conduct what will be the largest computer based test in India so far with more than three lakh students expected to take part. The CAT will be held in two sessions each day for 10 days, between November 28 and December 7. Online registration for the test begins on September 9. NIIT had last month started tying up with private colleges having at least 100-computers each for conducting the test.