The road to IIMs, the Common Admission Test, has almost certainly crash into an uneven square.

The unquestioned ruler of B-school entrance tests which used to measure the fame of business education in the nation has for the initial time stretched its enrollment cut-off date by a week, perhaps to encourage more candidates into line up for the test.

According to an IIM teaching staff, the number of people enrolling to take CAT has been declining. When the IIMs carried out the paper-pencil test by themselves, they gazed at limiting the number of students.

However, now that it has been contract out, the proceeds from CAT is unexpectedly significant. Since many years, the entrance test has been the IIM's blonde goose; in the year 2007-'08, India's blue-chip B-schools gathered in Rs 2.98 crore only by carrying out CAT.

However in the year 2009, subsequent to 33 years, the test marked off from being a paper-pencil test and that, specialist expressed, missing out a huge number of candidates from minor corners of the nation who were not cozy withstanding the computer-based test.

This year yet again, the number of cities where examination centers have been fixed up, also, has plummet.