A very common question that bothers many CAT-takers is the scoring methodology used to assess their performance. Specifically, the mystery around normalization makes students wonder about its impact on their final scores. In this article, let us try to decipher the normalization process. First of all, CAT awards +3 marks for correct answers and -1 […]

Getting the Tricky parts right You’ve slogged hard and belled-the-CAT; cracked-theXAT/MAT and what-have-we… and now its time to jump into the ‘Grey’. Unlike the written tests, GD’s and PI’s are not cut-and-dry ‘black-and-white’; they deal with the intangibles…. where your assessors are no longer looking for ‘the right answer’; but your ‘confidence’, ‘poise’, and ‘ability […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) results are expected on December 27, 2014. According to sources at IIM Indore, which conducted the exam, the results will be available on the CAT website from evening of December 27. The exact time is not known yet. As soon as PaGaLGuY is made aware of the time, we will […]

Male. Engineer. Non-IITian. General category. That’s my profile. And I still ended up in an IIM. For all the pessimists out there, it is possible! Read on.. The first time I ever thought about giving CAT was in the third year of engineering. Before that, I was a regular student, enjoying student life, without a […]

Being underprepared, I had not applied for any other exam. After the CAT results, I was dejected and decided to get back to engineering studies, something that I was confident about. I was, however, pleasantly surprised when I got a call from IIM Shillong. At 86 percentile? I was not sure how this happened. But […]

Soon, it was time to start preparing for CAT2011. I was enjoying my work, and felt no pressure at office as I prepared at home. This time I was serious. I had started preparing around May and joined a test series. I also purchased some GMAT books to help me with the verbal section and […]

14 years of schooling, 3 years of college, 2 years of coaching, almost 10 entrance examinations (including CAT) and still it seems that English is an alien language. As soon as I start thinking I know it, it surprises me. Coming to CAT, I still had a confusion of the level that ‘listen’ and ‘hear’ […]

Before I start the story of my journey from 52.26 percentile to 96.29, I must state one thing very clearly; this is not a journey of a struggle which most of us love to read. Unfortunately, we grew up reading all ‘newspaper boys’ achieving extra ordinary things in their lives. Whenever I read such biographies/auto-biographies, […]

“Hey, I can’t think of getting admission in IIM A or B or C. They are way above my league.” said these words to my friend when asked about my plans for CAT. And today i sit in front of my laptop writing this article after straight forward rejections from top IIMs. While i was […]

So there I was, staring at my CAT result – 99.82 percentile with 99.63 and 98.72 in both sections. It was 5 am. I was still groggy. I thought it was a mistake. It had to be! So I logged out and logged back in. Still 99.82. It took a minute to sink in. I […]