The Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) are quietly working towards expanding their Common Admission Test into an international examination to draw students from abroad and to compete wIIM Ahemdabadith the globally-popular Graduate Management Aptitude Test.
According to an exclusive story published in Hindustan Times on July 2, credited to Charu Sudan Kasturi, the initiative is said to be a key component of a confidential contract signed between IIMs and Prometric, the American computer-based testing (CBT) service provider.
“Prometric will provide CBT services to IIMs in India ... and to IIMs for global expansion of the CAT program,“ states an agreement signed between the IIMs and the service provider, accessed through the Right to Information Act.
The “global expansion“ was also a reason why IIM rejected the bid of the Graduate Management Aptitude Council - a non profit body that conducts GMAT - for the computerisation of the CAT.
Read more: IIM Common Admission Test to go global
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