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Interview with Managing Director, Pearson VUE Asia Pacific

"With technology changing at such a fast pace, and India being on the forefront of this changing technology, CBT adoption by the masses is not far away. India is maturing to the idea of CBT and accepts the benefits and convenience that CBT has to offer over paper and pencil testing. We see more and more exams converting to CBT just by virtue of CBT's advantages."

CoolAvenues presents an interview with Pearson VUE Director, Mr. Sarveh Shrivastava. Here are the excerpts of his interview...

General

Q. Can you give us background of Pearson and their activities in India?

Pearson VUE is a part of Pearson, a UK based international media company with world-leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. Pearson owns brands like The Financial Times, Penguin and Pearson Education.

Pearson's computer-based testing (CBT) arm, Pearson VUE, delivers tests through the world's most comprehensive and secure network of test centres in 165 countries. Headquartered in Minneapolis, United States, Pearson VUE relocated its Asia Pacific headquarters to India in 2007 to harness the potential that India offers for conversion of local exams from paper and pencil format to a CBT format.

Q. What is Pearson experience in testing market in the world in general and in India in particular?

Pearson VUE is the global leader in electronic testing for IT, academic, government and professional clients, providing a suite of services from test development to data management. Pearson VUE delivers over 7 million tests annually across 5,200 test centres worldwide.

In India, Pearson VUE conducts tests for IT certification companies like Cisco, Oracle, CompTIA, Adobe; professional tests like the GMAT and licensure tests like the NCLEX. PV successfully conducted the first CBT NMAT for the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) testing about 40,000 students in early 2010.

Q. What will be overall size of testing market in India?

Several million candidates are tested annually in India ranging from K thru 12 education system to higher education and entrance exams. The testing market has potential in the government and private sector recruitment. In addition there are specialized tests for banking and financial sector as well as licensure and certification tests.






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