New Delhi: Glitches, trouble, anxiety, pressure, all this and much more mounted both the students and examinees during the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009. But in spite of all hurdles, the Directors of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have decided to stick to the online version with no re-tests this year.

An IIM Director, who wished to remain anonymous, felt that, "It will be un-manageable for the institute to plunge back to the conventional paper-pencil format as it will not be a feasible option keeping in view the number of aspirants appearing for it."

All the Directors recently held a meeting in Mumbai to discuss the issue of the CAT-2009 fiasco.

While the directors met to discuss the fate of online exams, they also included Prometric, the US based agency that conducted the test this year, in their talks but are not too sure to continue with its services.

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has also called a meeting of the Directors of IIMs on Wednesday to discuss the problem that thousands of students faced due to technical glitches in the CAT earlier this month.

A concrete decision to continue with the online format is to be announced there.

Virus attacks and problematic servers created uproar among the aspirants in the country and some of them still await their chance to appear for the same.

The IIMs are however, sure that the admission schedule will not be affected even after such a blunder and the results will be declared on January 22, 2010.

"Those who were unable to appear for the test this year will be re-scheduled. Talking about the threats to file a case in court -- there’s nothing new in it as it even existed during the paper-pencil format," said another Director.