C for CAT...C for Catastrophe..

After one and a half year of hard work, one and a half year of time, on the fourth day of December this year, my mind was full of fear. Not fear of maths, nor DI, nor English...it was a fear of something no CAT taker had ever experienced till this year, the fear of a crashed server. The fear of not being able to even get an opportunity to even knock on the doors of the Indian Institutes of Management. The fear that after an year an half of heart felt preparation, a single worm nimbda or a conflicker would end it all in a matter or minutes and ruin everything we yearned for. No need to doubt, i am talking about the phenomenon called CAT. Perhaps a new definition for ailurophobia!!!
There has been so much of talk already, petitions being filed, etc etc. Personally, I have no feeling even in any corner of my mind that the paper would be scrapped. They have invested too much already. But for a student like me, a student who has no shortage of dreams by any means, a student who has toiled hard to get that opportunity to push his limits and be recognized for what he is and not for what he wants to be, the absence of the opportunity means more than that investment, its incalculable. The pain of missing out a chance when all your colleagues and friends have successfully completed the test, with no errors, just adds salt to the already unhealable wound.
Numerous such wounded students are holding their telephone receivers right now and dialing a number they never wished they would need to. The Prometric student helpline. And all they are hearing is the busy tone. Imagine the mental agony a student faces when finally he gets the call connected only to hear that he cannot be helped in his case. That feeling is not recommended for any light hearted, in fact it's not recommended for any one.!! It kills. And there's not just one or two students who faced that dreadful situation, there are thousands. Which include potential IIM students, students who had an average of 99.89 percentile in all the mock CATs they had taken, students who were toppers, all were now holding telephone receivers, checking mailboxes, message inboxes, waiting for the mail that never came for many.
I do not know how prometric is prepared to answer the questions these students would have in store for them. I don't know how Prometric is prepared to answer the parents of all the students who got depressed on missing out on the exam they had waited for so long. So many questions have already raised against Prometric, why no learned person to help students? Why did their software get hanged when they wanted to answer the question? Why did some students get more time to answer.? Why couldn't they see the diagrams .?? And for god's sake why cant they even take the test!!!!??
They never had answers to these questions, so no more questions....Shame on You Prometric!!