I will try to keep this short and simple.
Is it just with Indian society or does entire humanity socialize in this way? The context under which this question should be viewed is how little room do we provide for the wrong doers to correct themselves.
An extremity of this would be the fate of Shiney Ahuja, the bollywood actor who got caught in the rape case. Its not just him whose life is spoiled but the life of his family, his child will also perish.
Linking it to subject. The prestigious CAT which doesn't need introduction to most of my countrymen is going online this year. I think that's a move in the right direction. But there is much speculation around its format this time around. Some people are dead scared if it goes the GMAT way, means it turns adaptive. Keeping the logistic challenges, emotional outcry apart just think about the psychological approach being followed in its last year format and in the adaptive format. That will help to get my point grounded.
Till now, CAT has been like a bouquet of challenging problems, solve as many as you can. But beware, you attempt one and you happen to be on the wrong side of judgement then you will be heavily penalized (with 25% negative you stand to loose 5 points on each wrong attempt). So the crucial thing is to be selective in the right way, to tackle the right problem and to control your ego.
But just think, that's not how the life of a manager operates. When he comes acorss a problem he has to face. He has to solve it, tackle it, have an opinion on it or at least a blind guess. He can't avoid it for long. After a stage he can't avoid it at all. And quite often the problems are so sequentially linked that one will turn out to be a failure throughout in case one decides to skip upon the problems and seldom is there any room to be selective in such circumstances.
So, I find the approach of adaptive gradation of difficulty more in line with real life situations. It leaves room to commit errors even though silly but it penalizes you heavily in case you happen to leave the problems unattempted. Remember the age old adage - to err is humane. Since the organizers have finally decided to leverage the technology to there end I think they should let the CAT adapt this time around.
What's your say, boss!
