CATastrophe 2006

Ya i am talking about my CAT 2006 taht i wrote on Nov 19 th..I was actually writing CAT just as a formality. Dont think that i was so confident of gettin into IIM s tat i was takin CAT very lightly. IT was actually the other way round. But i was faring decently well in a few of the aimcats clearing cut offs but not all three at the same time. Tat was my problem and English was a bigger problem. All my guesses will be surely wrong. I dunno if the key was set after i seeing my answers so tat eeryone of my guesses should be wrong..Ok let's get to the C-Day as my friend Guru named it..Ya C-Day s like the D-Day for us..

Center was Loyola College..No problems in getting to there, reaching the exam hall, finding my seat and settling down for exam.. The problems started after the answer sheet was given. I was asked to shae all the personal information on the sheet..Boooooring..It took full 20 minutes to shade for me while others were finished shading and going thru the rules and regulations in the question paper...Then exam started i started to read the rules..75 questions for 300 marks..I was reminded of the nightmarish Aimcat 702 in which i got a zero in Quants..My lowest ever in quants..started with DI and as another half an hour passed by i found tat the papaer was not tat difficult as i imagined. Then came English section.. As u all would e guessed from the mistakes in this blog that i am very poor in English..This English was very bad..Actually this English was quoted as "Infer me if u can" sort later in the review..I could nt infe anything leave alone answering..So i started to do wat i thought i was good at..Guessing...I attempted 18 of the 25 qusetions..All were guessed...

Then came my favourite section Quants....I did well in tat section..Aftr completing the paper or after running out of time i found tat i d missed out on a easier problem in DI...I started to feel tat i d screwed up DI..But after coming home and checkin the key i learnt tat my DI score was not as bad as i thought..It comes around 25-30 (from two keys..One from Time website and another from Career Launcher) It was closer to the expected cutoff of 28.

In English i was miserable managing 11-16..With 12 wrong answers...Quants i got 45-46..There the english marks put an end to my MBA dreams for now..I knew even if i got one luckily i didnt deserve it...Ok Let's stop this CAT rubbish here...And if i get bored with my job next year then CAT 2008 beware..I am sure to crack u down...

My last practical exams....

I was having my last practical exams on the last week of October..Ya tat was my last practiclas in all my 4 yrs of engineering....

I was hopin to get good marks in those exams and prepared well.I even helped out a few of my friends with some doubts. Then i was confident of everythin except viva. I had a fair idea of the subject so i was feelin tat i could face viva easily.but tat external had other ideas..Especially the external who came for Antenna lab..She was HOD of ECE dept in SSN college... She s a real show of..She didnt ask any conceptual questions at all..She straight away asked wat s the formula for efficiency and directivity of dipole antenna...I somehow answered tat.Then came questions regardin formula for all other antennas like helical,horn etc.etc...She didnt stop there she also wanted to know the uses of those antennas..she meant the latest uses tat were not mentioned in the text books..Ah horrible..Even our sir was upset...He couldnt do anythin to help us..He thought of giving as much marks in practicals as possible..He gave 90+viva marks initially..But that external questioned him tat how can he put 90 for a person who has got ery low viva marks......She was cruel indeed...The highest marks for viva tat we got was 6.....

The revenge.....Thou i cant call it revenge exactly...Our sir luckily got an opportunity to go as an external for CS dept of SSN coll..I would ve been happy if it was ECE...Anyway it was SSN..Tat was enough...Our sir did the same thing the SSN ECE HOD did for us...He siad that the students there were worse than us..They had superior insrtuments,staff,infrastructure and everything but the students were good only at mugging up...In microprocessor lab he asked the students to write a few silly progams tat were not in their records..They were not able to do it...Our sir being a very 'righteous' man gave zeroes too in viva....

Overall who r the sufferers..Its us - the students.... When externals ask something regarding a concept its accpetable in viva..But when they start asking for formula as SSN ECE HOD asked or page numbers of answers which our sir asked (though he asked it when students sad tat they mugged up the answers..) its not accpeptable....

Anyway the practicals are over and i am saying bye for those labs,observations,records,model exams and vivas.....bye bye..