CAT ’04 – Few Lessons Learnt & Road Ahead!!

[MavericK]

Originally Posted by van @ Tue 23 Nov, 4:24 pm

WELL I WAS READING REPLIES FROM AN OLD POST... AND IT WAS RIGHTLY SAID THAT PEOPLE WHO BREAK CAT ARE THOSE WHO MANAGE TIME IN DAY TO DAY LIFE AND NOT ONLY IN EXAM. SO PEOPLE START MANAGING TIME ... AND THAT IS THE LESSON I LEARNT FROM THIS CAT 2004.

And how abt learning to avoid posting in CAPS and using sundry font colors ?

[imgonnacrackthistime]

thanks for motivation arun..........
this is my first major failure till now, but on the positive side i have learned so many things during this arduous journey. but i dont want to succumb to this.

i agree there is a major void when u dont see anything falling into place.

but anyways...........

i'll start loving my job.
i'll learn new things.........guitar
i'll read new books.

those 1-2 marks shudn't control our life.

n this forum is more than a family to me with like-minded ppl arnd.
lets change our attitude first to change our life.

[van]

Well I'll take care of that.. but i wanted to stress things. lol.. bye.

[hanoz]

One thing learnt this time is, "Read the Instructions".

I did, but I believe many didn't read this important piece of paper and suffered miserably. I saw articles in TOI (Ahmedabad Edition) of a guy complaining that he had to keep referring to the first page to figure out the marks for each question.

Man, you're supposed to remember the marks and if you can't, the marks were printed in BOLD before each section/sub-section of questions started.

Moral of the story. Read Everything.

[Jugnoo]

4 years and each time CAT teaches you something. And this time its told me the ultimate truth "You are not meant for IIMs".

XPEDITER.

[catbert]

ITS OFFICIAL. THIS IS THE BEST THREAD I'VE SEEN POSTED ON PAAGAL GUY'S SITE.
ITS REALLY WONDERFUL TO SEE EVERYONE GET THEIR FEELINGS OUT. AFTER ALL CAT IS ONE OF THE MAJOR REASONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF THIS SITE.
AND I GUESS IT TAKES THE END OF NOVEMBER TO GET THE BEST POSTS ON THIS SITE!!!!

[pagalguy]

Please..Pleaaaaaaaaaasee.. don't post in ALL CAPS, it tantamounts to yelling and is considered bad manners.

[Psychodementia]

Originally Posted by XPEDITER @ Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:19 pm

4 years and each time CAT teaches you something. And this time its told me the ultimate truth "You are not meant for IIMs".

XPEDITER.

Hmm........and what makes you say that XPEDITER ? I mean its a pretty strong decision so I just making sure that its not just the "aftermath" of nov 21st

See its not so much as having an aptitude for cracking cat than a question of taking it again as being out of scope. See in life something charms you for sometime. After that it kinda looses its charms and your goals become different. For me it was more a case of that.

Example, mere dad ko kabhi mein mercedez road pe jaate hue dikhaaun, he never gets excited. Because its out of his scope. Same thing for many engineers when it comes to IIT. If someone had told u ki dekh woh jaa raha hai uska IIT JEE mein AIR so-and-so tha, u wudve been awfully excited. Abhi Im sure it elicits a lot milder response When u know abhi milke koi faayda nahi toh fight maarne ka mann chala jaata hai. If I were still in B.Sc I would have been as excited to give it a fight year after year till I finally get through.

Some food for thought here

Arun

[one_step_to_insanity]

This was my third attempt(2 in 2003 and 1 in 2004). This time I thought I had a good chance of making it to the top. I was in a daze after the test. I woke up in the middle of the night on Sunday and looked at the paper again .. there were so many really easy questions that I had just ignored looking for SITTERs in QA. On a re-look, the DI part B except for the hockey thing was frankly easy .. I know this is rich coming from a guy who tanked the test.

Somehow I still feel I can add an IIM-MBA to my resume. So I am gonna try again. I told myself and anyone else who would care to listen that I had two CATs left in me before this one. Again I feel I have two CATs left in me. Like Arun said, at some point it'll probably become irrelevant if I keep screwing up like this. One thing for sure, I am not going for any coaching class - I don't care if 2005 has same pattern and the coaching centers give a thousand strategies. IIMs owe it to the non coaching class junta to even out the battlefield, which they did this time with a beauty of a paper.

[nithin]

hey arun so are u saying that u stopped trying to make it into the iim's because u thought it wasnt such a big deal(something else interested you) and not because u thought u COULDNT get into an iim.