CAT [ Common Admission Test ]

Here comes my CAT experience..

CAT- Common Admission Test --i too give it a shot.
That's really a great experience to me.

Till this November 16th, i have a distant knowledge about CAT.

Now i tasted the flavour of India's one of the most prestigious exams.

Well I belong to the category of one of the coolest kids attended the
great exam.

Going for CAT without preparing even for the last week!!!

The serious students who were preparing the whole long year would
kick me to death!

But who cares..

My money my OPPORTUNITY, and after all ma life..

Altogether it was a great experience.

As per their say we should reach the test centre by 9.45am
and "Calicut'[Kozhikode] was the only centre in Kerala.

So on that day day buses and trains would be full of the
so called 'CAT aspirants'.

So we decided to [well some 2 other buddies are also attending
CAT along with me. in fact they are my roomies also..]

stay at our another roomies house.

We reached there Saturday evening,
one day before the 'D-day',

and spent most of our time at the beach
and various shopping malls.!!

Well that was our attitude towards the exam.
Well leave those silly things.

Lets go the D day thingy..

D-DAY

Its November 16- 2008.

Started from our friend's home at 9.15
and reached the test centre
by 9.35
and found out the class room.

Got into it.

By that time most of the serious people were already
in their assigned positions.
Me too took my seat

and checked and rechecked the roll number.

There was plenty of time left for the starting of the exam.
But everyone was inside the class room,

mee too no exception to it.

when i was idling, I switched on my RADAR and
searched for somebody..
you know it might be for girls..what else!!!

Well the seat next to me was still vacant.

I asked God for a lottery..

Well God didn't disappoint me..
A girl came in and occupied the seat..

but not that pretty..well its a girl na.. not a boy..
THANK GOD..

but got no response at all from her..!!
may be a 'serious CAT aspirant!!'

so I again let my eyes onto other parts of the room.

THERE IT IS......

There was a packet lying on the table.

Yes..its the bundle of paper which could potentially change once life

or which could either blast-off a thousand plus Indian rupees at once.

No doubt..its the CAT question and answer booklet..

It was lying there waiting for the bell to ring and
then to reach our hands..

After a bit long 'dental checkup' i got bored.

But it didn't last too long.

At 10.00 the booklet was handed over to us
and gave a series of instructions to fill it.

I filled it and again started searching
for something interesting somewhere..

Got struck on a sentence which was a part of the instruction.

"YOU CAN LEAVE THE HALL WHEN THE INVIGILATOR SAYS
'YOU MAY LEAVE NOW'".

A joke came in..may be a PJ..

'What if he/she use some other word instead of 'you may leave now'??

[NB: pls don't force yourself to laugh]

And the battle started at 10.30 and it would continue till 1.00
-- 2and a half hours..

Started scanning through the questions.

There was was a total of 90 questions;
3 sections- 25,25,40 questions on each section.

+4 and -1 for correct and wrong answers respectively.

And there was a sectional cut off also.

First section was the quantitative section-
better known among students as quanti seciton..

Without preparation even the brightest minds cant crack it.

So I attempted only a few questions.

My thirst to darken the bubble came to an end at the 11th question.

Then came some logical analysing type questions,

data interpretation and English section.

I tried tried it a little better.

By 12.15 I completed my first rounds.

Then i would have to go back and test my luck on
those questions that i left behind.

Well that was my usual strategy for most of the exams.

And the last minute of the exaaam..

Its the panic time..At this time I couldn't think clearly.

So i went for pure probability, pure luck and pure guess..

I darkened some of the bubbles on this basis;

even without looking at the questions, sometimes.

Well..I have nothing to lose..but anything that i get is a gain na..!!

Came here with no expectation, but with hope alone..

And at 1.00pm it came to an end to my first ever CAT exam!!!

And nothing special after that..Came back to home in the next train.

The luckless people again got no girl companions in the train too. :-(

And there comes to and end to my first ever attempted
CAT exam experience....

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