So it seems like December 8 will not be the concluding day of the CAT 2009after all. According to an IIM Ahmedabad press statement, “There are still some candidates who could not take the test due to genuine reasons and test has notbeen rescheduled for them. A new test date will be announced in about a fortnight to provide an opportunity to ALL such candidates to write the test.Prometric would inform all such candidates about the date and the venue for the test.”

At a press conference at IIM Ahmedabad, Director Prof Samir Barua said that while 1.85 lakh candidates had taken the exam till Dec 6, another 30,000 took the test today (Dec 7) and about 15,000 to 20,000 will take the test on Dec 8.

Explaining the causes for the failure of the exam at some testing labs over the weekend, Prof Barua said that some individual labs in Lucknow and Hyderabad had failed to send the test data back to the central servers. “The central server is a cluster of30 to 40 computers that monitor logs for each test across India,”he explained.