An anticlimax!

Venue: St.Joseph's college of Commerce, Brigade Road
Date: 19th November 2006,Sunday
Time: 10.25AM

We are all waiting anxiously to tear open the seal of the question paper and race away. We are supposed to start only at 10.30 AM. Everybody is looking intently at the front page of the question paper:
3 sections
25 questions in each section
Each question carries 4 marks;100marks for each section
Time: 2.5 hours (10.30AM to 1PM)
I look at this data and think "Just 25 questions? the paper is going to be a tough one....Will have to be careful"
The bell rings and I open the qpaper hurriedly and turn the pages to the verbal ability section. I always do English first. It gives me some confidenceThis is a tough one to tame, I realise after the first 10 minutes. But I continue to do my best and then move on.
Next, I move on to Data Interpretation section, only to get the shock of my life. The section is dirt simple. I crack some 12 questions and move on.
Quantitative section is relatively simple.
The bell rings and I get out with a wierd feeling.

Was that really CAT 2006? The bloody paper was like making a mockery of all the preparation by . A 12th std kid could have cracked DI and quant.

Then slowly, out came the analysis and cutoffs...As expected the cut-offs are very high this time because every body has literally raped the paper.

Things are more complicated when eveybody does the exam well because there is no way of predicting what is going to be the final cut-offs for the IIMs to call..

Jus round the corner...

Here it comes..
Its just round the corner...
By this time next week, it would be over.

Am I nervous? Am I tensed? Am I under pressure?
Surprisingly after all the hungama and the umpteen blogs that I have written, the answer is NO, I'm not.. not at all..
I feel normal, atleast upto this minute. I'm not on a high or a low.

I have stopped studying too much. I'm just going thro' my word lists and doing some formulae. Whats the point? CAT is not a semester exam that can be cracked by mugging up stuff in the last minute. Whatever has to be done, should have been done by now. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed.

Rumour mills are on an all time high. Some idiot was even mentioning that there would be an essay section. I'm pretty much sure that there is NOT going to be one simply because correcting the essays of 1.2 lakh students is absurd. But there is definitely going to be a surprise. CAT is only about surprises. On hindsight, last year's paper was not a tough one, but the pattern had changed and most students were flummoxed by the change in pattern and lost their cool, including me.. Well, this time I hope I dont do that!

I'm prepared to face it if I screw this one up, because there is a 70% chance that that is going to happen because like I keep saying, with CAT u never know. I'm determined to carry on with my life and push this one down after this Sunday. I'm determined that the outcome of these 2.5 hours is NOT going to affect any facet of my life.

Wish me loads of luck, for I shall need lots of it! :)

A very special person

I spoke to him, finalllyyyy....after 3 years...They say that thoughts are very powerful. I was talking to K just a week back asking why he was not on Orkut.And lo! on last Friday, I got a friends' request from him on Orkut. I added him and scrapped him and he scraps me back right away. I scrapped him again and we kept scrapping each other for a while. The he called me up and we ended talking for about an hour.It felt like talking to a long-lost friend.We knew so much about each other before we broke apart and we were thick friends..... I was asking him about all the things he used to like.. does he stil like all of them now? Does he still watch Salman Khan movies? Does he still go to the gym? Does he still like Kareena Kapoor? Does he still hate Aishwarya Rai? Is he still crazy after cars?In return he asked me if I still dont wear pants, do I still like Aishwarya Rai, do I still talk in riddles, do I know hindi now, do I still have short hair etc etc....One hour is too short a time to cover 3 full years... But it felt damn good talking to him. I'm sure he too felt the same coz he kept saying that he is glad I scrapped him on Orkut...
He was a very very special person to me in college. 6 ft tall, he made (and still makes) all girls take a second look. I had a major crush on him and so did he, on me. But dur to a lot of mis-understandings we broke apart and havent spoken to each other for 3 years. I have always wanted to talk to him, but I thought that he wouldnt welcome it. Apparently he thought the same thing. We used to mail each other promply for birthdays. Neither of us forgot, not even for a year.
I felt very very happy after a loooonng time, last friday. Actually, I still cant believe that I actually spoke to him... Something that I had wanted to do, for almost 3 years... It happened suddenly out of the blue one day. I'm so glad I followed my instinct and scrapped me instead of wondering if it would be OK for me to do so...I guess this is why it is said to "trust your instincts"....!