In their latest statement released today, the India Institutes of Management claim to have unearthed patterns of problems faced by candidates during the ten-day period of CAT 2009 between November 28 and Dec 8. Asserting that a retest was not needed since only 4% of the test-takers had been affected by the unfair testing conditions, the IIMs have contradicted their own precedent of 2003 when the CAT question paper was leaked to a much smaller number of people and yet a retest was ordered.

The IIMs and the HRD ministry have decided to not go down the retest route. CAT 2009 has been the most mismanaged mess of an exam in recent history and yet the IIMs have decided that it would be better to harm a few thousand students than to do the right thing. Right from day one, the complaints have been both loud and diverse. Cheating, mismanagement, leaks, rampant reboots, viruses and general all round mismanagement - all issues have been brought forth by the students and the powers to be have chosen to ignore them all.