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Bharati Vidyapeeth Engineering college, Khargar, Navi Mumbai; Slot 2 My PC crashed after 30 mins of starting the exam. I panicked since the timer was running out. Although the staff was kind enough and they looked over the matter quickly and seated me on a different desk but it created a lot of anxiety and eventually affected the other two sections. Also I had a hard time navigating the mouse and selecting the answers. Overall it was a below average experience.

Noida Sector 62 TCS Ion Digital; Slot 1 Started very late Entry going on till 8:50 Loud noises from outside continuously of some religious event

Pimpri Chinchwad University Talegaon,Pune; Slot 1 Screen was too zoomed, was very hard even to locate the questions. Invigilators were shooting too load

Sri Balaji institute of technology, dadi ka phatak; Slot 1 System wasn’t working. Exam started half n hour late. System crashed twice midway exam.

TCS Ion Digital Zone , Aluva, Kochi; Slot 2 Personally I didn’t face any problem but the guy sitting next to me had faced problems like turning the screen off randomly multiple times. So the invigilators had to come frequently and took him somewhere else because he wasn’t able to complete the exam in that system. Even i was getting distracted when this was happening and this was the time when i was reading the RC’s so it was a problem for me to concentrate there

IDZ-2, Noida Sector-62; Slot 2 Very Loud Music from nearby places, ones near the windows couldn't hear themselves think even after closing ears

Indore IPS digital centre; Slot 1 Noises of instructions in Mike after exam started …Didn’t have facilities for mobile safety .. ..

Nkm public school, raibareli road lucknow; Slot 3 The screen was not working properly. The mouse was also sometimes getting disconnected nd roll button did not work

Ion digital zone, hebbal, mysore; Slot 2 Washroom access not provided post registration and before the exam started.

GITA Autonomous College, Khordha; Slot 1 Lots of chatter & noises while attempting paper. And the problem is they were not stopping for 10-15 minutes. I just put fingers in my ear and did the VARC section. After 20-30 minutes all was good. But after few minutes they started again. Very very pathetic experience. As I was unable to read the RC & VA options mindfully. It costed me 2-3 questions as the time was up.

INDRAPRASTHA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING; Slot 2 Centre was easy to allocate but there was technical issue on 2-3 systems including mine. system wd no keyboard(zrurt b ni pddi khair) 2 staffs were very uncooperative nd rude. (instructions dia ni washroom jane s regarding or baad m chilla rhe the). overall okk okk tha.

ION Digitial Zone, Kannur, New bus stand; Slot 1 The system turned off twice during the examination, once during VARC section and the other during Quants section. Took around 5-6mins to get restarted again. Although no time was lost, this was a bit irritating.

TCS Gito bitan Sector 5 , Kolkata; Slot 3 Late start, mouse problem

iON Digital Zone Hayathnagar, Hyderabad; Slot 1 I had a terrible experience at my alloted center. I'm a repeater, so I've seen many centers last year as well. This was by far the worst center and exam taking experience I've ever had. The landline phones kept ringing throughout the exam duration and no one would pick it up right away. They kept announcing multiple times on the loud speaker with high volume that one or two students did not start their exam yet. This is so disturbing to the students who already started their exam and are trying to concentrate. Especially since the first section is VARC and you're trying to read. They were breaking some 200 student's concentration to tell the staff to check on 1-2 people who did not start their exam. There has to be a better system than this. Secondly, there's too many invigilators, for such a small exam hall. There's an internal lift right in the center of the exam hall, and a staircase around ithe lift well. It was one of those old lifts with two manual metal collapsible gates that we see in old buildings. The center had 4 floors and 4 exam halls, the staff kept moving between the floors the entire duration of the exam. Every single time, they would not close the lift door and there would be noise. The lift kept playing elevator music and asking to please close the door in 3 languages. Completely broke my concentration during the exam. It was a constant source of noise, not just once or twice. It was at least 20-30 times in 2 hours. I kept reading and re-reading the same thing because I couldn't understand it due to the noise. I had an entire RC left with just 4 mins time. It was not enough time to start and complete a new RC and I completed all other questions in the section. Just 1-2 mins more, I could've gotten to all questions. Noise continued in the next two sections as well. The invigilators kept chatting away like they were at a picnic. Minimum decency is to not to create disturbance in an exam center. It's unfair to the candidates who have been studying hard day and night for an entire year. After the exam when I was reading about the exam center experiences of other candidates on reddit, I saw that some people had pin drop silence after the exam started and absolutely no distractions. I wish I had a good experience too. This year is my second and last CAT attempt, it could've gone better if I had better center. https://t.me/CATformFAQ/169

Buddha Institute Of Technology CL 1 Sector- 7 GIDA, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India - 273209; Slot 3 Pointer speed of mouse was too fast. I faced problem in scrolling and using calculation

iON Digital Zone Shiye, Kolhapur; Slot 3 Electricity Problem- The PC did now shut down but there were loud noises as if the fuse were tripping and the lights used to go out and come again. It happened 4-5 times in the whole slot.

Asansol, West Bengal; Slot 2 After beginning of my exams, stuff was still going around with invigilators making some noise for around 5 mins

Gift city gandhinagar ; Slot 2 When I used to click 1 or any other number it would get pressed twice , this wasted a lot of time in answering TITA questions and using calculator

Sri Sukhmani Institute, Derabassi; Slot 2 Very poor infrastructure, white white thing from ceiling was dropping constantly while exam and the mouse was too small and the pc was lagging a lot and took so much time to load the next question

MRS global institute of technology , Dwarka; Slot 1 My seat was right next to 3 washrooms, and smelled soo bad that for few minutes i had to cover my nose with my tshirt . The whole time i was distracted by this