Mumbai: India's premier management school, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), has reviewed test reschedule request petitions by nearly 60 candidates who reported to their test venue but were not allowed to appear for their test due to discrepancy in documentation or late arrival.

"NMIMS granted reschedule of test dates to 41 candidates based on the genuineness of their requests. All the candidates have been communicated the decision," according to the Chairman of the NMAT Admissions Committee.

The NMAT, being synchronously conducted in 19 cities each in India and 11 other countries by Pearson VUE, will admit candidates to nearly 570 seats in management programs of NMIMS. The test results will be used for admission to NMIMS' full time and part time management programs and Executive Ph.D. program in Management studies.

A network switch at a centre in Nagpur developed a fault leading to stoppage of the test for 61 minutes. The fault was localized and the faulty switch was replaced with the backup. The test was resumed from where the candidates left off.
In a centre at Raipur, a candidate needed urgent medical attention and a doctor was called. The candidate completed the test after recovery.

The feedback about the superior, yet equally rigorous, testing experience continues to pour in from candidates across the country as NMIMS' first ever computer based NMAT was successfully administered to the 20,000th candidate on day 6.
"Each test session has a separate question paper as per the NMIMS admissions committee's plan to ensure test security and integrity," Pearson VUE India Managing Director, Sarvesh Shrivastava said.

"The tests timings across 12 countries have been allocated in a manner so that the tests are delivered synchronously across all the countries simultaneously," the Pearson VUE India MD added.
The NMAT testing teams across locations are continuing to focus on smooth delivery while handling any computer level issues speedily.

About NMIMS
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) www.nmims.edu was established in 1981 by Mumbai University with the goal of delivering quality management education. The institute has come a long way since then. It was granted a deemed university status in 2003 and offers various other programmes including diploma, graduate and postgraduate programmes in architecture, engineering, pharmacy, science and commerce.

Its flagship programme however remains MBA, which comes under NMIMS School of Business Management. The institute is also coming up with another campus in Bangalore largely focusing on executive management education.

NMIMS has recently acquired land in Chandigarh and soon will establish a campus in north India as well.

About Pearson VUE
Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.com) is the global leader in computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs around the world. Pearson VUE provides a full suite of services from test development to data management, and delivers exams through the worlds most comprehensive and secure network of test centres in 165 countries. Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), the international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education and the Penguin Group.