Wednesday 9 January 2013

CAT 2012 results announced; technical glitch keeps aspirants waiting

Although CAT 2012 officials announced that results will be made available from 12 midnight, they were actually declared at 3 am on January 9, 2012. But due to technical glitch majority of the aspirants, who stayed awake to get the results, could log in only after 4.15 am to access their scores.


NEW DELHI: Server problem hit CAT 2012 results as soon as they were announced. The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2012 results, the entrance test for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management, were made available for the aspirants in the early hours of Wednesday, but majority of those who were trying to login failed to get access for over an hour due to technical glitch.

Although CAT 2012 officials announced that results will be made available from midnight, they were actually declared at 3 am on January 9, 2012. But due to technical glitch, the aspirants who were awake to know their scores, could login only after 4.15am.

Over 2.14 lakh aspirants registered for the test, of which about 1.91 lakh appeared for the computer based test conducted in October-November 2012. The test was conducted for over 21 days across 36 cities in the country. IIM Khozikode coordinated CAT 2012.

Apart from the IIMs, CAT scores are accepted by many premier B-schools and technical institutions for admission to their management programmes like the Faculty of Management Studies, various Indian Institutes of Technology and Management Development Institute, among others.

For the first 15 minutes, post declaration of the results, majority of the candidates failed to access their results. Their attempts to login resulted in "502 Bad Gatewa)" flashing on the screen. While CAT 2012 officials said that the high traffic at the same time could have slowed down the server, many who did managed to login failed to get the results.

Many aspirants who finally managed to login and register their numbers only to got an error message saying 'Error connecting to database. User sanjeevj__hasan already has more than 'max_user_connections active connections.'

Till around 3.30 all that the official CAT site was showing was that the results will be up online by 3am and candidates can access it by login using their registration number and email ID. CAT 2012 results can be accessed until December 31, 2013.

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