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!
2 comments:
sir, m not an expert to comment on CAT 'cos m more of a techie but I do believe that most of us lack in consistency rather than ability. people are liable to get carried away by number of things in the course of our careers. some of us simply don't want to work. I think that time is the best test and the best teacher.
having said that, be it adaptive or a bouquet of tough questions...really doesn't matter. the bouquet of tough questions applies to Indian setup where we have huge number of applicants as against the resources and the other option is more apt for the western setup where this competition is gentler.
thank you sir for your thoughtful comment.
definitely, your argument of indian context is a valid one.. but I believe that technology is worth persuing only if it is in reach to the masses..
The developed world adopted the technology in 20th century when there was an aura of uniqueness attahced to it which distinguish the beholder of the technology from the rest.
But 21st century persuit of technology led by India and China will rather enforce masses reach as a critical factor for successful adoption of a technolgy.
Seeing the subject under the light of this argument, I agree that there will be logistic challenges in implementation of such procedures at such a large scale but this is the litmus test of such a technology.
What I tried to highlight through this article is that since now technology is the new enabler, this is high time we think in the direction of modulating the psychology of such a test to better suit the management world of today.
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