Hundreds of students were unable to appear in the computer-based Common Admission Test (CAT) for the second day today as authorities rescheduled the test to carry out repairs at the labs where computers suffered virus attack that disrupted the first day of exam. CAT, being conducted through computers for a period of 10 days from November 28 to December seven, got off yesterday to a troubled start owing to computer virus attacking 24 of the 104 exam centres. The authorities today decided not to hold the test at these affected centres.
Candidates who could not appear the test have been notified and are currently being rescheduled within the testing period, said Prometric, the American firm which has been entrusted with the task of conducting the tests for around 2.41 lakh candidates for admission to IIMs and a few other B-schools.
About 2,000 students could not appear in the test yesterday due to the virus that affected the computers at about 50 labs in these 24 centres.