The CAT Hurricane
Man. I have to tell you. My Plight for CAT has ended. I have ended up scoring 55 in CAT 2006. I don’t know where the hell will I end up with such a score. Any way it was fun . The story goes like this.
(Guys who fear horror is requested to refrain themselves from reading this blog)
It all began when I enrolled myself for the super-long batch at TIME in Nov 2005. I was elated initially. In fact, I loved what I was doing then. I do it even now but with a reduced spirit. I used to attend all classes at TIME. Collected all the study materials. Started going through it with cocksure enthusiasm. I started reading ‘MBA Education & careers’ with delight. Checked out various websites containing huge volumes of may-be-asked kind of crap. I spent hours in front of my PC browsing through the all those junk sites.
Oh!! My God! How many movies did I miss! How many parties did I sacrifice!. All for one stupid exam. Alas.Alas….I should have been brainless to give a try at something like CAT. Its amazing to think that 1.91 lakh people take it simultaneously. And also this is the test taken by all those dumb asses, far more intelligent than me. They are the ones who don’t take their eyes off the book even when a sizzling dame comes and sits on their lap. Oh! Boy .. Its ridiculous.
But You have to admit one thing. The Mock-Cats were super cool. One should have been patient enough to such an extend that he didn’t go nuts. Those exams really tested the matter. Even when I was writing the mock tests, I felt indifferent. I thought that 50 percentile in the mock cats means you are damn sure to have at least an eighty percentile in the original one. Bull Shit. It turned out to be. I was feeling this because many a jack asses will take CAT for just the sake of taking it. They do it to boast that they have taken CAT and has derived shit out of it. But in fact I was the big “jack ….”. The ones who has taken it for granted seems to have bagged the show. I sit here and write all these crap. Its funny? No man. It Isnt.
Guys, Now I understand one thing. When You are pitching against someone or something which is of bigger size than you, You have to set your brains working. Oops!!!..I still have to check out Whether I have one or not. Another thing is that they don’t refund the money. Its Rs1100 bucks for the form. Another fifty hundreds to apply to all the Classy Instititutes of your choice. This is ridiculous man. Why the hell have they set a scheme of this fashion. You have to apply before you know the result. It stinks man. It really does. Added to that the Answer keys that are out contradict themselves. Oh Boy!! How is that?? We are playing the Gamble. Gamble to fool ourseself.
Having an engineering background I Didn’t have much problem in solving Quant or basically mathematics. I managed a score of 30( Didn’t clear the cut-off) in 1.4 hours of the exam. The moment I saw the passages I thought of leaving the entire verbal section. It seemed awful. You will go nuts. Do Human beings write such stuff? I guess not. They must have fetched the article from some other planet. Yet I managed to attend 2 passages . Out of which I got 3 corrects and 7 incorrect ( wow!..what an accuracy!!amazing) .There was another stuff in English Section this time. You have to judge whether a statement is a judgment, fact or an Inference. This was comedy. All the options can be applied to all the bitchy statements. At some point of this exercise, I thought they should have given a forth option …”hypothetical”. Well with all the gaming I managed a 7 from this section ( the worst) DI (or in simple terms Data Interpretation) was Strategically Ok. Thank God!! No Graphs and “pies” this time. It was hard to manage time. But then Its Important how quick Ideas click your mind. I managed a decent 18 from this (the only thing to reach a cut-of).
Inference: CAT is a gamble. Luck is your partner here. You have to be rich to write CAT.
Serious preparation will come handy. NB: this means You have to study your 10th math n stuff all over again. 3 hours of work a day ll do. You have to miss parties, gossips, chitchats, movies ,hangouts, flirting, and all crap that a human will be interested in.
All this done means u might well have a faint chance to survive the hurricane.
And ya. For those who write it for the sake of writing it. Please don’t flirt around when you are writing CAT. Well… who knows u might get cuties at IIM’s. So please take the test seriously.
