Bell the CAT

It's not the ordinary CAT. And to bell this CAT you need to be smart, hard-working, having the quality of good time-management, planning, perseverance skill. One more thing that you you need to have is LUCK. Yup, it's very important because, luck could put you in either side of the fence.
Till now, you have never been tested on LUCK. But, this time it's one of the factor and you have no control on it.
Yup, i am talking about the CAT 2009 - a prestigious exam to get into IIMs - the world class business school. There are more than 2 Lakhs of candidate writing the exam every year, and only few get through it. It's not the end, you need to clear the interview as well, wherein there is no dimension defined against which you might be tested. I would like to restrict myself with the CAT, 1st round only.
CAT went online this time and you have mouse to bell the CAT. It's very first time that the government body initiated the technology adaption in one of the biggest event. Kudos to the CAT Management and Govt. of HRD. CAT, always known for it's management skill, did experience few hiccups during the event. The paper was saved or should i say greenery was preserved but, a lot of pressure and luck was put upon the cat aspirant writing the exam.
The technology part of it was outsourced from India to the US firm prometric. Prometric, who conducts the exam for GRE and TOEFL and many other bodies, is one of the best in this. It happened to be a bad luck for prometric as well this time. Things went wrong starting from filling up the form to writing the exam. There were so many glitches in the software.
I think, it's ofcourse the management failure. I really appreciate the way the process was defined and being executed throughout the process in the event. What went wrong was the collaboration with the Prometric, which caused all this. Few glitches scared the Lakhs of people. The other reason being, there is no good infrastructure here to support so many candidates writing the exam. One needs ample amount of time to closely look at different to promise that, the show will go on perfectly.
The candidates during the exam are into so much pressure and any small thing could put one into trouble. Even if the re-schedule happens, the candidate doesn't feel comfortable and get into a huge amount of pressure.
What could have been better is the Organizer's planning and forcasting would have been better so that they get ample amount of time to get everything ready and nobody runs into trouble. I hope, CAT and rest all learn from the mistakes done and do care for the sentiments of people attached with the event. I wish best of luck to CAT organizers and prometric.

Thank You.