Chronicles of Gautam

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So did I bell the CAT? Unfortunately, no. DI&LR pretty much sucked for me, where I am getting only 17/100 and the expected cut-off is 32-35 for 95%. Math was ok, getting 37/100, expected cut-off being 32 for 95%. And Eng was pretty good, getting 72/82/82 (CL,TIME,IMS) out of 160 which will be pretty close to 100% (expected cut off is 47-49 for 95%). So My total is 126/136/136 (CL/TIME/IMS). Which should be around 98-98.9% according to CL. But sadly, no calls :( It would have been good to get some experience in GD/PI had I got a call. And who knows, I might even have got admission in an IIM! Sigh.

Tomorrow I will be taking the CAT. For the uninitiated, the CAT is an acronym for the Common Entrance Test, clearing which might open a path leading to admissions in the coveted IIMs. Like lakhs of others, between 10:30 am to 1pm, I will be ploughing through excruciating passages in English, trying to comprehend the tangled and hidden meanings and inferences in them. I will be solving problems in Math like what is the remainder when 21^(21^21(..(21 times) is divided by 25. (BTW, the answer is 21) . And I will be trying to establish conclusively whose father is whose son and whose aunt is whose sister as an exercise in Logical reasoning. The CAT is not a test of what it seems to be at first. Nobody cares whether you can sucessfully find out the remainder when some x is divided by y. You have calculators to do that. I sincerely believe even the author of the passage will not be able to answer the questions that are asked on her work. Rather, the CAT is a test of how you prioritize you...