Career Launcher (CL) recently sent across a press release declaring that all its centers across India will be offering a free online mock test from August 8 to August 21 and top performers in each city can get the test series package for free. CL decided to provide this offer because it was receiving a ‘huge number of frantic calls’ from students for doubts regarding this year’s CAT. We thought that it might be a good idea to just cross-check this useful offer. Off we went, put on our student hats and called up some CL centers across the country. Here are some conversations we had with people at CL centers; CL might still get a huge number of frantic calls because information at centers is not consistent with the press release.

To address the growing apprehension and heightened confusion among the student community regarding preparation for the new online format of the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the IIMs every year, Career Launcher (CL) – the leading MBA test prep player of the country – has announced a Student Welfare Fortnight. During the fourteen days between 8th and 21st of August, 2009, all CAT’09 aspirants who are currently not enrolled with Career Launcher will get the opportunity to experience an Online CAT, christened the Freedom CAT for FREE at any of the CL centers across India.

“The origin of the idea of the Student Welfare Fortnight was the huge number of frantic calls and queries received from aspirants over the past few weeks. The one commonality among all these calls and emails was to seek expert guidance & tips for tackling the new CAT avatar. “

“With CAT just a few months away, we want these students to experience the new avatar in its closest form and shape with us, without any strings attached. We want them to benefit from our unique online expertise at no extra cost; in fact for the top performers in the Online Mocks in each city (securing more than 95 percentile), we are offering our test series package for free, as well. The offer is also applicable to anyone who has secured an IIM call in the past”,