Case Study
The Right Approach for IIM Test Delivery
The Right Approach for IIM Test Delivery www.prometric.com Background The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are a network of India’s most prestigious business schools. In April 2009, the IIMs announced a decision to collaborate with Prometric to migrate the largest, most competitive and most influential of India’s exams, the Common Admission Test (CAT), from paper and pencil to a computerized format. The CAT is the premiere admissions test used in the selection process for admission to the IIMs, as well as over a hundred business schools in India. Challenge The groundbreaking goal in the first year of computer-based administration was to deliver more than 200,000 exams on 17,000 computers in 361 temporary testing labs at 104 centers in 32 cities throughout India. Never would so