Blueshift, XLRI tie up for online admission test

CHENNAI: Blueshift has tied up with Jamshedpur-based management institution,

XLRI, to enable its admission test, XAT, go completely online with its turnkey

software service, Service Engine for Assessment, Testing and E-learning

(SENATE), launched two months back.

Blueshift will offer a complete package of services under SENATE, which

include online registration, content preparation, website design, an e-brochure,

complete management of logistics, test center tie-ups, test supervision,

delivery and reporting. Applicants can register online with the

XLRI site. Payment of examination fees has to be done offline for the time

being. Candidates for the examination would be given an electronic hall ticket

with id and password. Question papers would be released to the server in the

test centers 15 minutes before the exam. While the candidate is taking the exam,

SENATE locks the system from accessing other sites and locks up other

peripherals so that the candidate cannot retrieve information stored in the hard

drive or access floppy drives.

Blueshift has partnered with Dishnet DSL and Junction 96 so that their

Internet centers that meet certain conditions could serve as test centers for

the exam. Satyam Infoway would host the entire software. XAT, to be conducted on

January 6, will at least have 25000-30,000 students. It hopes

to cover more than the 18 cities, which it used to cover earlier with SENATE.