Prometric Opens Test Centres, May Go Solo In Conducting Common Admission Test
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Prometric opens test centres, may go solo in conducting Common Admission Test

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U.S. headquartered Prometric testing leader Inc opened its own test centers in India, paving the way for the company to go solo, keeping the common Admission Test (CAT) for the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). The company says however that "it will not fall partners" in the near future. These include education and Everon Ltd. MeritTrac.

"We have now opened two centers of our own exclusively managed and administered by Prometric, unlike other centers, which are third-party vendors," said Soumitra Roy, CEO of Prometric India. "We do not know the future but will continue to expand our network."

Prometric, which led to IIM CAT online since 2009, making in collaboration with Manipal Education Group and Everon-promoted MeritTrac.

Roy said the situation is closely monitored Everon. Management of Indian society, director P. Kishore has been in custody in an alleged tax evasion and corruption. Roy also said he did not want to associate with a person with the whole system. "We will take appropriate action at the right time," he said without elaborating.

Roy did not comment on whether there was a conflict of interest in leadership Everon test readiness, while being involved in the execution IIM CAT 2012.

Go Prometric was a sign of its ambitions of India, Bharat said Gulia, senior manager (the practice of education) at Ernst and Young.

"They have better traction and biggest in the Indian market. It is a long-term vision," he said. "Online testing of the segment is growing bigger in the country, and as a society in search of a higher proportion of Prometric."

New opened in Gurgaon and Hyderabad, 226 candidates in a first-fit session and another 284 begin operations this year.

They are "state-of-the-art facilities to meet global demand," said Roy, without elaborating investment. "They will become the benchmark for other testing centers operated by our partners."

The first edition of the online CAT resulted in a shower of criticism due to technical problems and virus attacks that disrupts the testing process and affected thousands of candidates. Their protests forced the IIM to go in another series of tests.

The CAT 2010, however, went smoothly.

The new centers, equipped with the latest technology and backup systems, will eliminate the fears of students, said Roy.

The new centers will help IIM in their attempt to make a global test CAT, a point that Roy too. In addition, the CAT this year is something of a "super-examination" with the entry of some decisive results and non IIM. These include business schools in the Indian Institutes of Technology, Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi School of Economics and Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, who all left their own entrance exams.

The establishment of new centers has been well received by Janakiraman Moorthy, a professor at IIM Calcutta, and the coordinator CAT-2011. "It will help IIM scale of things in the future," he said. Prometric "can go solo in the future to conduct CAT".

The Prometric movement can help in their attempt to gain greater market share of indigenous education has attracted more foreign companies such as Pearson Education, which has acquired the local firm TutorVista, and the creation of a company Educomp Solutions Ltd venture with the teaching of skills called IndiaCan.

"The education system in India is increasingly international," says Roy. "The modernization of India's approach to testing and evaluation is essential to ensure that Indian labor is still regarded as highly skilled, highly productive and reliable ... It is more important than ever to implement a high level which guarantee fair tests of experience in all areas. "

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