IIM site's server crashes, delays announcement of result
Monday, 01 March 2010, 15:25 IST   |    17 Comments
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IIM site's server crashes, delays announcement of result
Bangalore: The first online common admission test (CAT) for B-schools struggled yet again as sever crashed leaving lakhs of students clueless about result. For more than three hours on Sunday, students couldn't see their results on www.cat.iim.in, which couldn't take the excess load. The problem was fixed only after 6pm. Even then only IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Shillong declared the list of shortlisted candidates on Sunday. The other six IIMs are expected to release their list of selected candidates over the next two days, according to The Times of India. The candidates were informed about the blocking of scorecards at 3.45pm through a terse web message: "We are experiencing unusually heavy load on scorecard access server. We'll reopen the server after three hours." The results were earlier scheduled to be declared on January 22. But then the second phase of CAT exam had to be conducted on January 30 and 31 for students who faced problems appearing in the first phase. The results, which were postponed to February 15, were further deferred till Sunday. Nearly 2.4 lakh students had appeared for CAT 2009 of which almost 7,000 of them were left in the lurch due to failure of the system at various centres across the country. "The system seems jinxed. It happens every year: the server becomes slow when the results are declared as every one tries to access it at the same time. But it had to be shut this time probably because it was a Sunday and the rush was too heavy," said Arindam Lahiri, Academic Director, Career Launcher.

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