Rat chasing CAT

Hi,

The biggest hurdle to get into a B-School is clearing CAT. The world known truth ‘Catching CAT is easier than cracking CAT’ is absolutely ryt. Every year IIM change the pattern to confuse the students. First they confuse themselves and then they confuse us. This time they opted to go with only 65 questions, which is a good idea actually. It reduces the risk and burden on the student and it will also increase the competition. But to my fate, this costed me a gudB-School. Even in CAT, my bad luck followed me like a hutch dog. It used to be a offline test till 2008 but they conducted a online test this time. It might be an !dea of Abhishek Bachan to save papers...!! An Idea can change your life. Yes, it can change lives. This time instead of buying a CAT brochure(bulletin) from axis bank; one had to purchase CAT vouchers and register online. Instead of marking answers on OMR sheet, one had to click the mouse. So as per TIME institute ‘the cat goes mouse way from 09’.

After writing my JAVA exam for the last time, I didn't  have much time to think for the next step. Everyone had decided their way, but mine was pending. I wanted to do MBA, but in London or in Australia. But things changed, so I planned it to do in India itself. So, I took a bold decision to take CAT coaching and get into a nice B-School. Soon after I decided I went to TIME institute and asked details about the course. I didn’t take much time to join. My first class was on 6^th July. First day in the class, I had a strange feeling. I thought, Hyderabad girls are better coping with strangers than guys. I couldn't make many friends on the first day. But I found guy who is like me. Sorry, more lazy than me - sud.      

I went regularly for two weeks until I found a guy from my area - AbhiSHAKE. Things went on quickly. I made few more friends. One of them Shiva, who told me about MAT and colleges which consider MAT score. Days passed by, and I saw MAT notification in AIMA website. I had five more days to apply for MAT I thought to apply for that and to prepare seriously. The xam was on 7th of sept. I still had 40 days of tym. But I never wanted it to become like my B.tech xamz, so I pulled my ear and said I have to start preparing from ryt now. I opened the books... started the preparation. I checked the books I had, went thru the syllabus and made a planning. I read 8 hours per day for 3 days. but.. on the fourth day I was admitted in the hospital for Typhoid. I was in the hospital for 3 days and was homesick for 30 days in karimnagar. Long long long gap again...! After gaining some 4 kgs I went to Hyderabad. The day I went to hyd, i got a call from shiva... who was happy.. coz he gave his MAT and was hoping for a gud percentage. Hmm... i was speachless. I thought to give atleast in December. I was regularly irregular to TIME after I came from knr, but it was going smoothly.

Cat xam

    On one fine Sunday morning I saw CAT advertisement in paper. It showed that 8^thOctober is the last day for the sale of forms. We still had 30 days. But I thought to make it on that day itself, so, I started to Axis bank after my breakfast. On my way to bank I felt happy that I’m doing things so quickly prior to all, but I was feeling like I missed out something. I told to myself that ‘I got habituated of doing things on the last minute... so, I’m feeling like missing something’. I went to axis bank; to my ill luck it was closed. Then I remembered that it’s Sunday. Then I understood why I was making out things faster. I thought to make it by Wednesday and get registered in prometric website. But it didn’t happen so. As always I gave a head start for my actions.... but as my hobby and my weakness I didn’t complete it....!!

                     As usual I forgot about CAT and was enjoying but I was happy that I joined in TIME and taking de course seriously. I of course missed many classes but compared to my B.Tech classes they were few. So I didn’t care about them much neither I attended back up classes. On 8^th October, Abhishek called me and told that it is the last day to buy CAT voucher. Sud, shake, shiva and myself went and bought the voucher card. I was surprised after looking at voucher card. I thought it would be something like a bulletin and have a great info about CAT but it is just like a wedding card.

                     As, sudhesh, my buddy wanted me to write CAT with him on de same day and at same venue. We thought of registering together. We planned to go to Shiva’s place and register. We planned to give in the morning as there were two slots per day. So, it was like... Exam Date: 2^nd Dec, Exam centre: K.G.Reddy Engineering College. The first part was over, I registered for Cat exam and I was happy. While coming to my place I had my voucher card with me in my hand. Thoughts darted through my mind about that voucher card; I made a rocket with that voucher card and threwed it on a small baby. She was happy, she gave an awesome smile. But at that I never knew that even voucher card is to be carried to the exam hall. I made rocket with my voucher card to make a baby feel happy.... Oops, I know I know I know I’m an idiot....!

                         Anyways, as usual I was not much worried. I kept on waiting for the dat to come. Even though I didn’t prepare much for CAT, I prepared morally to give my xam at my level best. At 10 pm on 1st dec I saw the mail which prometric has sent to me. They asked me to bring a photo identification card, a print out copy of the particular mail and Voucher Card. Thx to my buddy who brought my print outs. We started early to the centre as it is some 30kms from my place. It's a winter mrng with temp around 5-10 degrees. My hands were freezing while driving de bike, but I never dropped the speed below 100kmph. I was the first student to reach the centre. I guess it was after some 7 years I reached the place before de time. Slowly pple started coming. I can see the tension in their faces. Some carried pouches, some carried boxes, and some carried some buks, some of them carried nothing like me. The climate was awesome. Nice cool breeze was blowing. I liked it very much.                             
                   My buddy sud and I was laughing like devils... joking commenting and roaming all over the college.

After some time I went to a counter and registered over there. They asked me wait in a class room. Though only our presence with an admit card and id proof was needed at the centre still I carried a pen and a pencil in case of emergency (after the experience of JTO’s xam...) now... Instead of taking us directly to the xam lab.. they asked us to sit in a classroom. They gave a short speech abt the online xam.. Before going, as a formality they checked us. I was asked to go for a security checking even though I was carrying nothing except a admit card and my wallet. After seeing the size of my wallet he asked me to put it in a cover and handle it to the security guard. Then he frisked me as if I was a terrorist who came to blow up the examination centre. Then I went it the lab, they asked us to follow a Q. They took my face scanning and finger prints. Thankfully like in jail I didn’t have to hold a slate in my hands with my name and CAT registration number written on it. Finally, after prometric pple were sure that no candidate is a replacement of MunnaBhai they asked us to take our respective seats. Beside me there was a beautiful gal. We just had a short introduction’s. When I asked her about her preparation she told with lots of confidence that she prepared well. But her mouse was not working properly. I thought ohhh this is the gal whose mouse is not working properly and she came to crack the CAT.

They told to click OK to get question paper, but when I clicked I got a error message. Hmmm........ I thought my xam got cancelled. (I was laughing inside...) I dint feel tensed but the prometric organizer got tensed. I saw him sweating. He told me to relax in a chair. He did sumthing and my xam got started within 2 min... I finished the xam, came out and met sud. He was happy dat his xam went really well. Even I was cool as usual. Hehe...

           Next... it’s ntng. It’s all over for me. I just have to wait for the RESULT.

My Cousin $indhu

Dudette’s and Dude’s this is not the story of My cousin Vinni or My cousin Bobby... but its mai jealous story...!!!

Next... it’s ntng. It’s all over for me. I just have to wait for the RESULT.

Due to some problem with the online examination, the CAT results were postponed from Jan 23rd to Feb 28th. so i waited fingers crossed for Feb 28th. Finally de tym for result has arrived. I opened catiim page. I was curious to see my result. I typed my Registration number and here it is my result..... Boom...! I got **%. I expected more than that, but i guess it's enough for me. I don’t know whether it is a good one to me or not. I called sudesh and told my result. I was happy with my result. I know I didn’t work hard.

I was happy. But the happiness didn’t last long. In the evening I got a text from my cousin. It showed that she got 92% in CAT. I was shocked at first. Then a moment later I thought ohh it’s great. I felt happy for her. But...

                          but when I recollected that she has already got some 1400 in GRE and 104 in TOEFL I felt like jealous. Jealous... for the first time in my life.She, who is four months younger to me, one foot shorter than me always, always gets better percent than me. This is not the first time it happened. This started right when v were joined in school. It happened all over, starting at the age 5 and we are now 21. I’m worried because it’s still ticking.

            She used to be an enigma for me in my school days. She used to work hard, study and score good marks, and my mom, my mom used to scold me bringing my cousin in middle, whenever I show my progress report. Anyways mine is not a progress report, it is just a report card. Because, it never had any progress in it. Leave me, we were never close, so she can put me in trouble. But what abt Dheeraj, her only own brother. It’s like a hell to him. When ever she brings a good news to her parents it turns out to b a bad news for him. What a Pity Dheeraj. Don’t worry I can understand ur troubles with dat stupid gal.

            Sindhu was never been a kind hearted. She never shares anything with anybody. See... sushruth wants nice GRE and toefl score, dheeraj wants nice percent in B.tech; I want nice CAT score. If sindhu is a a kind hearted and loves her cousins she would have given her Gre & Toelf score to sush, her percent to dheeraj, her cat score to me. Hehe... J    Even after sharing all des, she vl b left with a Job... Job in Infosys.. with 30-35 thousand of pay, with a cab.. which comes to her place... pick her and drop her back again. What a life she can have... even after giving her scores to her cousin’s. But tough luck for us. She won’t give us.

(she is a nice gal, down from heaven.. Hehe)

GDPI

                  I know.. "Its's not worth crying over spilt Milk". So, I took it li8.. as usual. I had confidence that i can do well in GDPI and get into a nice B-School. I always had special interst in communication side. So, i thought of doin MBA in Telecommunication. but there r not many colleges which provide mba in telecom. i knew it's not worth to beat a dead snake but my fate doesn't know it i guess. All the colleges which give telecom want there student to have 60% in B.Tech. i dunoo abt other but i really worked hard in mai B.tech. With my sweat, blood, pain and agony i got 57% and i'm happy with dat. But des colleges... dey wanna punish me for mai past sins.
            Somehow, i changed my plan and thought of staying in Hyd itself. So applied for VJIM.


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