The CATastrophe

January 12th 2011 :: The day the earth stood still. At least for these few moments when I was typing in my serial number. And then it started spinning at an extraordinary pace as soon as I filled in the captcha and log in. This was my first major disappointment of the season. Though I scored a pretty good 97.75 %ile, it was not enough, not by far to get the coveted calls I prepared for, the entire year.

For the last few days I had an intuition that CAT is going to give me a surprise, and it certainly did. Blame the Verbal Ability section, blame the normalization, blame my slot or may be blame my luck. But things certainly did not go the way I planned them to. Anyways, I am not the only one who has to face the wrath of CAT’10. Pagalguy is full of many people whose scores are just unfathomable. But what’s done is done. No point blaming anyone. May be I should bring my focus back on the “pen and paper” exams, which happen to be the one which show you the real picture rather than a vague transformed image which has been tempered by a weapon of mass destruction termed “normalization”.

So CAT is out of the window. Might get a call or two from here and there. Got a satisfactory SNAP scorecard. Would be lucky to get a call from SIBM-P. Anyways, time to start the preparation in full swing for the calls I have in hand. But before that I need to wipe away these two words from the back of my mind >> CAT and IIM …!!!  x-(