BANGALORE: Cracking one of the toughest entrance tests -- the Common Admission Test (CAT) -- for entry to seven Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) was never easy.

For the first time, CAT will go online and with just 100 days for CAT 2009, aspirants are preparing hard at coaching centres, trying out various types of question paper patterns.

But how are students preparing to face CAT? What are the difficulties they are encountering?

According to coaching centres that TOI spoke to, students are finding it a tad tough with the online version, as opposed to the paper-based one.

Many candidates told us that they were finding it difficult to stare continuously at the monitor for over two hours," pointed out Arindam Lahiri, director (academics) with Career Launcher.

TIME regional director Ajay Arora revealed that candidates could face `computer fatigue'. "According to IIMs, the online test will be user-friendly and the pattern will remain the same, which will be advantageous for students," Arora said.


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