Will Prometric compensate for the loss to IIMs image and the candidates discomfort?
Right now the issue is to give a fair test for all the candidates. My current focus is to conduct the test as smoothly as possible. Such decisions will be taken up by the directors of the IIMs. As far as the candidates are concerned, their tests would be rescheduled. There were reports that in spite of being present at the centres, NIIT, Prometric and IIM officials did not try to pacify the students or even talk to them. Till last year, we were conducting the test by ourselves. A perfect example would be of Harvard and ETS. While Harvard is a full time management organisation, ETS is a full time testing organisation. The IIMs were meddling with both till last year and this is the first time, that we tried to delineate both. Talks were on since 2003 and a time had to come to separate both and we took this chance to give the task of delivering the test to Prometric and the task of building the infrastructure to NIIT. Once the mode of the test changed, our focus changed to item developmen
