u/researcherr123

the smartest player here was honestly the institute itself lol

most people here won’t digest this because everyone suddenly started dreaming about a free reattempt. but the collins mail and the damage control was obviously due. institute timed it properly.

candidates calm down, panic reduces, institute saves face. proper win win for everyone.

but honestly some reactions on this sub were crazy.

website was down for like one day and people started writing deferral mails as if the exam itself got cancelled. some of you genuinely acted like life stopped because LES was unavailable for 24 hours.

what were people even expecting realistically. “hi institute, portal down tha for one day so now please give me another attempt.”

come on yaar.

and funniest part is people were acting like all study material on earth vanished overnight. bhai Makali was still taking calls, V D Shah’s OpenCourseWare was still working fine. Free notes were there. Tons of qns were there. LME videos subscription was still alive. Mark Meldrum videos didn’t disappear.

there was still enough material available to study for weeks comfortably but people behaved like they were suddenly helpless without LES for 24 hours.

this whole thing honestly became a live behavioral finance class.

loss aversion everywhere. people became more emotional about temporarily losing access to mocks than about the hundreds of study hours they still had behind them.

catastrophizing also full power. one small outage instantly became “my attempt is ruined”, “my career is over”, “my prep is destroyed”.

then herd mentality kicked in. once a few people started panicking on reddit, everyone else joined emotionally without even thinking calmly.

emotional bias also obvious. stress completely took over logic. instead of adjusting for one day people started reacting emotionally first and thinking later.

availability bias too. because the outage was the latest thing in everyone’s head, suddenly months of studying started feeling irrelevant.

and honestly overdependence bias was the funniest one. some people became so dependent on mocks and LES that they forgot the actual goal is understanding the curriculum, not refreshing the portal every 3 minutes.

asking the institute to communicate properly is fair. nobody is denying that. but asking for free deferrals because the website stopped working for one day was peak overreaction.

india mein people prepare for these exams with jobs, local trains, family pressure, bad internet, noisy homes and half broken laptops. and here people were acting like one portal outage ended civilization.

downvote me all you want but some reactions here genuinely proved the original post right.

Finally. Long weekend is here. & as if this all of this wasn’t enough, the LES is down.

For those who have studied some level(s) with the older version & later with this version, you would know:

No dashboard summary of your overall progress anymore. Earlier at least you could track LES completion and cumulative score. Percentiles are gone anyway in the new scoring system, removed faster than free chutney at a crowded dosa stall.

The whole interface looks dull. Tiny black text everywhere. Looks less like a learning platform and more like a government portal that asks you to clear cache, switch browser, and try again later.

You can’t simply resume from where you left off. Every single time you need to make selections again, as if the website has the memory of a Mumbai auto driver when you ask for change.

Earlier there were proper colour gradients for completed topics, bookmarks, difficulty levels and other useful cues. Now it just feels like black and white pages with random bits of blue sprinkled in like coriander on overpriced poha.

A lot of useful things seem thrown straight into the bin. Answer explanations feel shorter. Discussions removed too. Why help students when confusion is available in unlimited quantity.

Honestly feels like someone was told to modernise the platform, hired one consultant cousin, removed features, changed colours, and submitted the invoice.