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Computers crashed across the CAT exam centres for the second consecutive day on Sunday, forcing the directors of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) into a huddle and the company entrusted with carrying out the online test scramble for resources.

Around 5,000 students will now have to take the Common Admissions Test (CAT) afresh at new dates throwing the original 10-day schedule into disarray. Technical experts blamed U.S. based Prometric – the agency entrusted with carrying out the first online version of CAT – for underestimating the magnitude of the task. “They didn’t even have a Plan B,” said a top official of another firm that runs online examinations, on condition of anonymity. Prometric said it has quarantined 50 labs across 14 centres on Sunday, and blamed the fiasco on a virus attack that went undetected