IIM-A director denies entrance test 'leak'

Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 20:30 IST
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AHMEDABAD: The Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) Wednesday denied reports that results of the common entrance test (CAT) to the six IIMs were leaked on the Internet. "We were testing the online access to the results and some candidate saw it simultaneously," IIM-A director Bakul Dholakia told reporters. He was commenting on media reports that CAT results were available on the Internet a day ahead of its official announcement scheduled for Tuesday midnight. A website that calls itself a forum of CAT aspirants, pagalguy.com, had hosted a discussion Monday in which a candidate is reported have accessed his CAT score. "The testing was for a period and it was put off after that. Then, all the results were put out officially at Tuesday midnight," Dholakia said. Dholakia, however, admitted that the testing could have been done in a secured environment. "Results were also dispatched to all the IIMs much in advance. Results are the same, it is a question of access. "I don't think there is any concept of leakage in online environment. It can only be a question of access. We were not testing results, we were testing (online) access to results," Dholakia said. He said the testing was done in the interest of the candidates. "We were trying to ensure that students don't face any glitch, that they have trouble-free access. Only alternative to that was to straight away put the results online without testing and there might be glitches," he said. The incident recalled the leakage of the CAT exam paper in December 2003, leading to the cancellation of the examination and a retest later. The website pagalguy.com, whose name has surfaced in the incident, has also clarified that it was not a "leak". "(On Monday), one of the registered members of the forums had posted a thread (a discussion) on the forum giving a link which was only a slight change from the URL of the previous year's link, which is available on IIM-Lucknow's site," Allwin Agnel of the website pagalguy.com noted. "This, we believe, is not a 'leak' as the link was available in the open and there wasn't any explicit notice on the site barring outsiders from accessing that page. At no point did we have any result on our servers. "The only link we had, pointed to IIM-A's servers and they removed the page. It may very well have been a test web page," Agnel stated.
Source: IANS
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