NIIT Ltd announces country's largest IT Aptitude Test

Mumbai: NIIT has announced the 4th National IT Aptitude Test (NITAT) to enable students and graduates to calibrate their potential and aptitude for a career in the booming IT Industry.

'NITAT 2008', will be simultaneously conducted by NIIT, in over 160 cities in the country, on 20 January, 2008.

According to C Raghavan, president of the individual learning business at NIIT said, "The Indian IT-BPO industry continues to be a lucrative career destination for the youth. In addition to software development, other areas such as Infrastructure Management; development for the Web, Mobile & Interactive Media space are also offering tremendous opportunities for IT career aspirants."

Global technology majors such as Adobe, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun Microsystems have expressed support to NITAT 2008, which is NIIT's pioneering initiative. It has also been endorsed by NASSCOM, IDC and World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand, during its first three years. The test has evaluated the aptitude of over 170,000 candidates in its first three years of existence.

The NITAT has been designed as an objective type test of reasoning, comprehension, data interpretation skills and behavioural traits. Every student undergoing the test will receive a score-card with their interpretation, along with her / his nationwide and zonal ranking. The assessment is expected to be of particular benefit to graduating engineers in deciding the careers that they should take up.