CAT 2015: Missing Test Day Guide creates panic; important exam day instructions still remain in dark

CAT Centre 2015 has not yet made live much awaited Test Day guide for CAT 2015 exam day. CAT 2015 test is on November 29, 2015 and only a week remains to CAT 2015 test day but there is no information whether the test day guide would be made available or the candidates will have to run from pillar to post to get relevant information. The test day guide was made available about a month prior to the exam for CAT 2014.

CAT Centre 2015 probably has not understood the utility of this important guide which helps the test takers to understand the process to appear in the exam and enter the testing room in accordance with laid down norms.

Now the candidates are still unaware of the important information which a CAT 2015 registered candidate will require on the day of the test. The Test day guide used to contain more items of information which are very much useful and aspirant friendly to guide a test taker. It appears CAT 2015 has deprived the candidates of this useful document.

Information about the articles The CAT test day guide is supposed to guide the test takers about the items they can or cannot carry to the exam centre. But CAT centre 2015 has not yet made it live although only a week remains for CAT 2015 test day.

Information on last date to rectify the discrepency The test day guide for CAT 2015 could advise and inform the candidates whether it would be possible for them to rectify and get the discrepancy in their registration form on CAT 2015 website till a certain date after the exam. This facility was made available till Nov 28, 2014 last year but for CAT 2015 there is no information like this from CAT centre 2015.

Information on Security and Invigilation Correct information on Identity checks upon arrival at the gates of the test centre; information about frisking; check-in procedure inside the test hall; capturing of image and Thumb impression and detecting candidates who take the test more than once is shared in the test day guide. Whether the process will remain the same or will change in CAT 2015 is not clarified by CAT Centre 2015 till date.

Type of Workstation in Test Hall The test day guide clarifies and explains about the type and size of workstation where you would be taking CAT 2015 exam. Whether the work station will be covered or open- cannot be ascertained in case CAT Centre 2015 chooses not to enable the test day guide.

Invigilation team What would be the colour of the badges of the different team members of invigilation team in the examination hall; how you could identify them and what would be their specific duties all was shared in the test day guide of CAT 2014. But in CAT 2015 you may not even be able to identify who is the invigilator and who is the technical person to attend the various computers.

Sign in Procedure not yet known On the day of the CAT 2015 test, who will check your photo identification and Admit Card to ensure that you have arrived at the allocated test centre, on the right session; how to ensure that the person is authorised to check; whether he will check at the gates or in the testing room; what types of direction would be made available; how to locate the testing room- all this may remain a confusion, if test day guide is not published on CAT 2015 website.

Process to assign the terminal not explained Inside the testing room how to locate the designated computer, who will guide whether you have to sign on the admit card first or have to sit at the terminal and then should sign it; how to mark your attendance in the testing room- it could all have been explained if the testing day guide had been made live by CAT Centre 2015 on its site.

Test taking Instructions Who will apprise you with the CAT 2015 test taking instructions before the actual beginning g of the test; when you are supposed to sign in at your terminals; how to enter your password and what it will be; whether you will have to use mouse or virtual key board to enter the pass word in the exam hall still need to be informed.

Apart from this certain dos and donts are shared in the test day guide like whether to use the key board or the mouse only during the exam; what will happen in case there are technical glitches and your computer terminal does not work; how to know when to start the test and many other key points are available in the test day guide.

Since the confusion among the CAT 2015 aspirants persists to a great extent, CAT Centre 2015 should promptly release the Test day guide along with the test day video with all the procedural details in it.

MBAUniverse.com is in constant touch with CAT Centre 2015 and is pressing hard to publish the test day guide at the earliest. However, in case CAT Centre 2015 is not able to release the test day guide on time, MBAUniverse.com would publish the key points in regard to taking CAT 2015 after ascertaining from IIM Ahmedabad the CAT 2015 conducting IIM.