CAT caught in another storm.
Last year, in its Common Admission Test (CAT) issue of fraud has led to the leakage of paper cancellation of the examination for admission to institutions of Indian Management (IIMS).
This year, CAT aspirants received a bad shock after the discovery of serious errors in the IIM-CAT 2004,-cum-Registration Form.
CAT application for students is scheduled for 21 November discovered several missing pages / times in the Bulletin. The barcode with the application form has proved many disfigured / tacheré in some cases.
The students have paid Rs 1100 for the document (SC / ST R 550 candidates to pay). The deadline for filing the application is on 10 September.
IIM Ahmedabad-attendance cinemas officer RM Iyer TNN recognized that the few complaints received about printing errors and that the State Bank of India (SBI), which is the sole authorized agent distribution have been addressed in place of defective ballots.
However, the SBI’s main branch in Pune, an indication that complaints can be IIMS for replacement. The students are in a correction because they are not always repair on the spot.
“The SBI is not responsible for the lack of pages or any mistake with the barcode, as we are only entitled to sell copies,” SBI (main branch, Pune) Chief Manager (accounts) said Arvind Gosavi TNN.
Gosavi suggested that people who received copies of pages missing, more and more the lack of photo-copy pages of their friends!
The SBI a reference, the complainants request directly to the IIM approach the authorities in all matters related to the problem. “I have communicated the problem to the authorities at IIM Ahmedabad and Bangalore,” said Gosavi.
He added that although students have complained about the lack of pages, did not have a written complaint. “We sold over 2000 copies of the Bulletin-cum-application form so far,” he said.
“In both cases, the bar code was found mutilated.” “I do not know why the SBI was not cooperative to replace the contaminated material,” said Iyer.
He assured that the case with the central office of the SBI. So far, 19 students in Pune, complain about the lack of pages in the SBI’s headquarters here.
A form of chat (No. 01078560) with TOI pages, that 37 to 44 and 61 to 68 have been reviewed and pages 45 to 60 totally absent. Several other cases of duplication, it was found between pages 61 and 107
The two IIMS - Ahmedabad and Bangalore - TNN admission to the heading “printing error”, said copies of the document would be faulty will be replaced, without any restriction.
The disadvantaged students, who pay Rs 1100 for the Bulletin-cum-application form, complained that the SBI, rather than the problem, she had directly to the IIM authorities.
Sikander student Joshi, won one of the “manipulated” forms several pages missing, the surprise expressed in the coldness of the authorities.
“Thousands of students for the tests are published annually, and each must be go by the magazine for each piece of information before completing the admission form,” he said