XAT-2006... Excuse Me I am a NORMAL chap !!!

When I left for the XAT today morning I never got a feel like going for a big exam ( though it is for one of the topmost B-School of India ). I was feeling like I was going out for a picnic (Which I missed yesterday at TCS)I reached the center about 9.15 am and roamed around for some time. Then I seen a sunday morning prayer going on in nearby church. There were no signs of opening of till 9.30 so I thought I will have some break and I entered the church. As usual church looked great ,like that I seen in many movies but havn't had any chance to get into.
I seen the paper at 10.00 am (thanks to supervisor giving it bit late) and shocked to see it was another version of CAT 2005. The number of questions were reduced badly and also there were instruction in bold which daunt you to refrain from guess work.
As usual I followed ENGLISH-DI-QUANT sequence. The paper was all crap. It was not new for me to see one or two sections coming out of box but here everything seemed comeing out of the De Bono's mind. I played it safely ......like batsmen who scored century in first innings have nothing to loose in second.
Now there is no fear that people will look to me like ABNORMAL guy scoring such a score in CAT........XAT is tough for me. It is indcation of me being NORMAL !!!

PS: If one gave close look to the paper it seems like paper set by the best brains of XAT to prove they can go more farther than CAT when it comes to setting up a challenging paper.

First Day @ GD/PI

After last 3-4 jubilant days it is time to start with the serious business.
So today I cancelled the TCS picnic and headed towards TIME Andheri for first GD/PI session.
The session was informative and as ARKS was taking it it was full of passion.
When it come to teaching this guy is so passionate.

We had some dos and don'ts of GD followed with the MOCK GD in which I participated.
After long time this is my first GD

Topic : Excessive Exposure of female anatomy in ads should be banned ?
I discussion started by me went on and as usual I committed some mistakes
1.I started for the sake of starting......I shud avoid it.
One shud start only when one is damn sure that he understood the topic well and can direct the group for further discussion.
2. I was aggressive rather than assertive.
3. It's better to be contributor than dominator.
4. I took word ANATOMY wrongly.

So this is something I found out from my first GD ......There were few good things I displayed but at this point I am more interested in lacunas.

One more thing I observed in GD.... You make some mistakes just because you don't have control on it. I need to add this CONTROL factor.

That's it for the day
I have to work on my profile and also revise some MATHS so that I will do some justice on tomorrows XAT.

Magic Numbers !!!!

Believe me if someone might have asked how much I can get in CAT I never ever replied more than 99, looking at the humillation from CAT last 2 years
Just have a look at this

CAT 2003 ----->78 PER
CAT 2004------>88 PER
CAT 2005------>99.7PER

I know no one will believe on this but thats the fact.... and the Magical Break Up is

DILR---97.7 VARC-98.16 QA--98.9

So what you call this .....I will surely call them MAGICAL NUMBERS !!!!
Sometimes they make you sometimes they break you.
Many of you will ask me what is a secret behind this ??
It is nothing but I just OPTIMIZED myself and the the BEST JUST CAME OUT !!!

Dream Come True Performance !!!!

It was clear in last week of the DEC that the CAT result will be coming out in 1 st Week of Jan but I didn't had any idea about exact date. I decided to be ignorant towards it and to forget that I also have to give XAT on 8th atleast upto the New Year Party....
Last week of 2005 was awsome thanks to TCS I enjoyed 2 parties at office and one with friend on 31......it was like I was participating in some dancing festival......but believe me dance helps you to refresh a lot (provided u don't mixed it with drinks). After long time I was out of the burden of exams.....
Tejas told me on 31 that CAT result will be coming out on 2nd and my first reaction was why they want to spoil our New Year Party....but we thrown the worries in dustbin and went for party.
I never believed that result will come on time as it was nowhere mentioned other than Business Standerd but still I subscribed for the Broadband Net connection (apart from result I thought it will be good for GD/PI prep...) so that I can get the result at home rather than going anywhere else.
It's 12.30 AM on 3/01 when I first open IE and checked all IIM sites 2-3 times but almost all of them were not responding. Then I gave a try on 1.50 AM and got the IIM-C link......when the page opened it was like my hands quivering to enter my number and to press enter......
What I seen was IIM-C CONGRATULATING me.......I never ever seen such message in last 2 years......I given almost 10-12 B-Schools exam yet and all I seen was regreat Notes......I was so happy for a moment......there were no one around to share this great news but here come the great mobile revolution at 1.00 am in night I shared this news with all my near and dear.One thing was now clear for me I will be getting more call apart from C but no idea how many more. I put my bet on atlest 4.......so my curiosity was on its pinacle.....Next 1 hour I found myself refreshing all the IIM sites.
It was almost 2.10am now and no sign of any more results to come out. I thought the IIM people are sleeping now so I shud also do the same. I slept peacfuly. It was 6.00 am when I woked up.....ruhed to the PC and again the same exercise of refreshing the IIM and PG sites but nothing postive came out. I thought it's too early for IIM guys to wake up and I should also sleep......then I woked up at 8.30am first checked the PG and found IIM-A and L link now this was realy diffcult guys..... infront of me was IIM-A result.....I enetred the digits and what came out was again one more good news (These guys didn't used congratulations.....I found A people bit dry.......might be they want to do it when I will convert A). I rushed to L link and added one more to my kitty.......Yeppp I had 3 of them now.....Again one round of calls to all Near and Dears.....But why rest of 3 no mood of coming......I found I and K lazzy and B to wise thinking whom to call.Now I was damn sure about the K and I that they will follow the stalwarts selection but no hope of B considering it arbiterary call giving last year.....but somewhere I hoped they will also do the same.
I had little nap in afternoon and it was 3.00 PM when I got B result link from PG and it's also came out positive...later after 1 hour K and I also joined the party.
Yes I done it finally after the 2 years of humillating defeat by CAT I belled it !!! I was wearing BLACKI crown !!! What a start of New Year ......I never expected this much....but it all was outcome of my hard work...strong faith on God and Mama's blessing !! So guess which was first place I headed to......it was Ganapati Mandir in Nancy Colony.