CAT 2009 fiasco
Well, it’s well past December 7 and I’m no more bound by the agreement pertaining to the non-disclosure of anything and everything related to CAT 2009 till Dec 7, the last day of the ten-day window for the first online CAT ever. One of the weirdest ideas certainly and that too from none other than the Indian Institutes of Management, the institutes regarded as the best for management studies in India. How on earth did they ensure that the agreement was adhered to by all the 240,000 candidates who appeared for the first online CAT ever? Ludicrous, isn’t it? Online portals and communities discussing the paper certainly provided an edge to the candidates who chose to appear in the last few days. Well, it’s only the tip of the iceberg as the online CAT had been in news for all the wrong reasons since day 1 of its inception. Computers crashed all around the country as candidates reached the examination centers to get a feel of the first online CAT. While some candidates who could appear f