the day that was-III

well..after so many mock's...this was the real one!..They had changed the pattern this time..less number of questions and thus more marks/question. When i saw that i had a flashback..it remainded me of a day a few months back..when my brother advised me.."work on accuracy.U will surely make it!".. I took a deep breath and started off with the English section..as usual i started with RC's as i had been doing for several previous mocks.The questions and choices were ambigious for RC's.So one had to make a educated guess.And also to my surprise one of the passages sounded very familiar....i could not pin point to where i had read it then..but now i know it was from editorial page in hindu paper many months ago!..Then i moved swiftly into the DI section..I think this one went pretty well..(only after i came out i heard it was supposedly tough one!)......but i had still made a mistake which was probably fatal in the final analysis..i had outrun my time for DI..now i had 35 minutes left..and then the second big mistake..i started attempting 2 markers in an attempt to negate the time loss..tough they were!..and screwed, did ,i the section...tired back/neck sagging shoulders did not help matters..

Day that was ...II

well folks now i continue with my sad story
"Just as my admit card was checked i got into II Block...Now the most important activity on my agenda was to find the LOO...So i decided to ask a guy with the IIM-B batch(ps:he was an IIM-B faculty member)...He retorted "Use ur head" in a grumpy sort of way..Well what did he mean?..Did he mean Use head as loo..not possible so it must have been to use my brain...Well It was finally my eyes and not my brain which helped me to find the LOO..I did find it but to my amusement the queue here was just a little shorter than one in front of the building..which means everybody was heading to LOO......Well after a ten minutes wait in front of the loo..And couple of minutes inside i was ready to enter the designated class room for writing CAT..So i was inside the Room No.607 at 28 past 10...Well if somebody had gone by the book no one was allowed inside after 10:15( imagine if somebody had told me to go back at that time!).....
nyway after that began the strip search..oops sorry just body search...i had got to used to the funda of having no chits in pocket..(not even ur wallet) due to our famed vtu exams...so now time was around 10:40...now suddenly a loud voice start comming out of no where!!!...it took me a second or two to realize that they had put a loudspeaker and somebody was speaking from the mike!!!...From the voice i could tell it was the same old iim faculty...he was blurting out the very same rules which were very clearly printed on my admit card!.....Now he told the invigilators to start distributing the booklets...i had thought this booklets will pinned andsealed..and was planning to play the old dirty trick i had played in all previous enterance exams!..that is to turn the booklet..press the last page and start looking at the questions in the last page!...but Alas not to be this time..they had put the booklet in a translucent cover x-(......anway this "IIM Guy" again blurted out the rules which was printed on top of the booklet..he must have thought we were all blind!...so after this 20 minutes of noise from speakers...a silence once gain befell upon the whole campus..the cat exam had begun...."

The Day that was...-I

It has been eons seens i updated my blog..i always used to come up with various reasons for not updating it..but here we go on November 20..one of the supposingly important days of my life i am going to update the blog.
"........I woke up to screeching alram clock...i tried hitting it with my hands to shut it up..but alas it was not on the side of my pillow.I had taken extra care to keep it on my table....this extra few yards i hoped would remove my laziness..Not to be!Not to be...the alram clock might have bugged the life of my next door neighbour(imagaine ur neighbour having an alarm on 6:30 on a sunday!)...it was finally after my mother told cat cat i realised it ..oh yeah..it is the day where i had to bell the cat...i woke up grumbling to myself ...man why don't they allows us to take cat whenever we want like gmat(surprise: even IIMA director seems to think on similar lines)...Fast forward one more hour( i don't want to dwell on personal details becoz i may end up in some tamil nadu jail!)......My dad had agreed to drop me off in car but the rider was i had to be ready by 8:10(btw exam starts at 11:00)..so i landed up in christ college campus at around 8:40...there began the first of the surprise albeit not the last one :-(....There were loads of jantha waiting at the college gate..one sec i looked at my watch and admit card ..i had begun to wonder if the exam was at 9:00....it was not ..then i started heading towards the notice board to check wheather my cat reg no is in this campus(imagine if it weren't)..it was in christ degree college and it was in II Block..i had written all my NTSE,STSE,all other such stupid exams on the main block....so this was a new part of the campus..Fast forward another hour(nothing much happend in the intervening hour i got some vitamin-d..that is all!).It was about 9:55 .then a bunch of christ collegites(must be cannot vouch on that one) came out of II block with some cover..i told ajay "that must be cat question paper".."shit should have made friends with these people"..Btw. these students were the invigilators....and at 10:00 clock we were given the green signal to enter the building not before standing in long long queue(each person was checked for admit card)...which made me tell ajay " i feel like entering cinema hall.."..A smart guy who was standing in front of us who had apparently overheard said "Even for Swades i did not have to stand in such a long queue"..well it was 10:15 and i was inside...More on my sad story morrow! "