Doston...How are you guys ?...How is life ?
For me...Its a hectic one..First of, there are two IIM interviews...I and B...Welll I dunno about the profs..But they are so much in love with probability...In my A and I interviews, it was all probablity..And some other aspects about my work profile...But probability is always there..God knows..if probability comes between me and my dream of going to IIM...Lets see
I am not going to jot down my interview experiences...Most of them were forgetable !!!! In B, they seemed NOT interested in me as well.....So for me, as per my understanding, I should get into the first list of IIMK...Also should make it to the waiting list of of IIML...No idea about the rest....At least I am not hopeful about them...
Tomorrow I have my MDI GDPI at Mumbai....That is the end of GDPI session of this year...Although I have my IIM Shillong GDPI on 30th of April, but I pray to GOD that I get through some other IIMs by the time...Results of other IIMS and MDI are expected by the 2nd week of April...Lets see if lady luck smiles at me this time..
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Two IIM Interviews and life after that....
Hello friends..
I am at Mumbai now..Attended my IIMK GDPI today...Already done with L thing..But then I havn't written anything about L..Why ? Well, I think you can guess it..It was NOT a good one....Lets jot down the circumstances of both the interviews and a bit about where I am staying in and about my life with those friends...
IIML..Before and After:
It was on 9th...My first IIM GDPI of this session..I left Indore on 7th..Reached Mumbai at dawn..Rather I should say at night..5:30 AM...The sky was dark...And o my God !!! It was so chilly morning.8.5 degree celsius temp..Can you imagine ? That too in Mumbai ? But then that was it...If it was a topic on GD, I would have already shouted about the effects of Global Warming..But hold on...I won't do that here...
Anyways, reached my friend's flat at Andheri at 7...He is Bharat Jadwani...One my my lifelong friends...Working (??) or rather drawing salary at Deloitte Consulting..There was his roomie Rahul Sharma also..And 7 AM is the sleeping hour for IT professionals....So they both were in their deep slumber..I rang the bell..No body answered...Then I called my friend Bharat...And somehow he woke up..And opened the door for me....Then he went to sleep again...With nobody awake, I also thought of catching a small nap...Upto 9:30..Then we all woke up...Had tea..And these guys left for their office.
Afternoon was pretty boring..Was alone in the flat...Anyways, next day I had my K interview in the morning...Will write about that later...
I am at Mumbai now..Attended my IIMK GDPI today...Already done with L thing..But then I havn't written anything about L..Why ? Well, I think you can guess it..It was NOT a good one....Lets jot down the circumstances of both the interviews and a bit about where I am staying in and about my life with those friends...
IIML..Before and After:
It was on 9th...My first IIM GDPI of this session..I left Indore on 7th..Reached Mumbai at dawn..Rather I should say at night..5:30 AM...The sky was dark...And o my God !!! It was so chilly morning.8.5 degree celsius temp..Can you imagine ? That too in Mumbai ? But then that was it...If it was a topic on GD, I would have already shouted about the effects of Global Warming..But hold on...I won't do that here...
Anyways, reached my friend's flat at Andheri at 7...He is Bharat Jadwani...One my my lifelong friends...Working (??) or rather drawing salary at Deloitte Consulting..There was his roomie Rahul Sharma also..And 7 AM is the sleeping hour for IT professionals....So they both were in their deep slumber..I rang the bell..No body answered...Then I called my friend Bharat...And somehow he woke up..And opened the door for me....Then he went to sleep again...With nobody awake, I also thought of catching a small nap...Upto 9:30..Then we all woke up...Had tea..And these guys left for their office.
Afternoon was pretty boring..Was alone in the flat...Anyways, next day I had my K interview in the morning...Will write about that later...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
GD PI Calls and thereafter !!!
I have already posted something about my IIM GDPI calls...So you must be wondering what am I going to pen down today again !!!! ..Don't worry..Its NOT some boring GDPI prep material...I just want to share my view about the fiasco called CAT...And Its tryst with my life!!!
Have you seen a child who is fed forcefully by his mother ?..Neither is he hungry, nor is he willing to taste the food..Still his mom wants him to eat all that stuff....Pretty bad situation for the poor child...Well my condition is the same...The left part of my soul (Who is inclind towards logical thinking !!) is acting as the mom...While the right part is the child who is fed up of all the post CAT GDPI prep....Left one wants me to have atleast an IIM degree after missing the IIT one...While the right one said who cares !!....You know...Going thru the current affairs.... my engineering subjects...after I left them in peace for 5 years (BTW, Have I touched them before ? be honest !!)....The Maths papers...You know I loved Maths upto 12th Standard..Then in my engineering, I was accoustomed to a new kind of Math..And I hatd that one...
So doing all these stuff, which you don't like is painfull....The only part that I like about GDPI prep is the introspection part...I never did that before...And it is awesome..But then again..there is also hipocracy...I mean I want to stay the way I am..And I don't want to open any new IT co in future...But still, the coaching classes taught me to say so....Can it be called introspection then ?..In true sense ?
There again I am going for GD PI with all these..Please wish me Good Luck !!!
Have you seen a child who is fed forcefully by his mother ?..Neither is he hungry, nor is he willing to taste the food..Still his mom wants him to eat all that stuff....Pretty bad situation for the poor child...Well my condition is the same...The left part of my soul (Who is inclind towards logical thinking !!) is acting as the mom...While the right part is the child who is fed up of all the post CAT GDPI prep....Left one wants me to have atleast an IIM degree after missing the IIT one...While the right one said who cares !!....You know...Going thru the current affairs.... my engineering subjects...after I left them in peace for 5 years (BTW, Have I touched them before ? be honest !!)....The Maths papers...You know I loved Maths upto 12th Standard..Then in my engineering, I was accoustomed to a new kind of Math..And I hatd that one...
So doing all these stuff, which you don't like is painfull....The only part that I like about GDPI prep is the introspection part...I never did that before...And it is awesome..But then again..there is also hipocracy...I mean I want to stay the way I am..And I don't want to open any new IT co in future...But still, the coaching classes taught me to say so....Can it be called introspection then ?..In true sense ?
There again I am going for GD PI with all these..Please wish me Good Luck !!!
CAT 07 Results and beyond !!! Thank GOD !!!
Guys,
I know you must be thinking what the heck !!!..Why this guy is posting CAT results some 20 days after the CAT result was out !!!! Was he mourning about it all these days....Both YES and NO...Puzzled ??
Here goes my official CAT results for this year(I am a CAT veteran !!!)
VA/RC: 92.84 %ile : 25.00 Marks
DI: 98.75 %ile : 57.xx Marks
QA: 95.6 %ile : 32.00 Marks
Overall: 98.98 %ile
Now, I was expecting my VA/RC score to be between 35 to 45....For IMS and TIME it was 40, For PT it was 45 and for CL it was the lowest, 35....Realistically I believed IMS/TIME answer keys...And thought I would get somewhere about 99.5 %ile...But that was not to be...Bad..Bad..Really bad....
Hey, but that was not all.....Thanks to my Mom n Dad, who pushed me hard to study hard during my childhood days.....So I was supposedly a scholar upto 12th standard...Then came my engineering..And I was my own boss..So you can very well guess about that time....but for my results in Secondary and Higher Secondary exams, some IIMs still thought to have pity on me...And they are IIM Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode...Well my 5 years of IT work ex also helped a lot..IIM Ahmedabad also gave a call under OBC quota, but I don't bank upon that one...
See, I have seen only one guy to have a score like mine (Below 99 %ile) in PG...And get 3 genuine IIM calls (I don't call the OBC calls as genu...)...Had I got another question wrong in VA/RC...And I would have got no calls !!!....If somehow, my VA/RC %ile were below 92, I would have missed IIMK call...I know one guy in my office who had 98.93 %ile overall, with 91.9 %ile in VA/RC..And no IIM call.....Another girl..With 99.07 %ile with min 93+ %ile in one section, and still received only one call..IIMK
So, I guess I was lucky...Hey GOD ..Thank you very much !!!
I know you must be thinking what the heck !!!..Why this guy is posting CAT results some 20 days after the CAT result was out !!!! Was he mourning about it all these days....Both YES and NO...Puzzled ??
Here goes my official CAT results for this year(I am a CAT veteran !!!)
VA/RC: 92.84 %ile : 25.00 Marks
DI: 98.75 %ile : 57.xx Marks
QA: 95.6 %ile : 32.00 Marks
Overall: 98.98 %ile
Now, I was expecting my VA/RC score to be between 35 to 45....For IMS and TIME it was 40, For PT it was 45 and for CL it was the lowest, 35....Realistically I believed IMS/TIME answer keys...And thought I would get somewhere about 99.5 %ile...But that was not to be...Bad..Bad..Really bad....
Hey, but that was not all.....Thanks to my Mom n Dad, who pushed me hard to study hard during my childhood days.....So I was supposedly a scholar upto 12th standard...Then came my engineering..And I was my own boss..So you can very well guess about that time....but for my results in Secondary and Higher Secondary exams, some IIMs still thought to have pity on me...And they are IIM Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode...Well my 5 years of IT work ex also helped a lot..IIM Ahmedabad also gave a call under OBC quota, but I don't bank upon that one...
See, I have seen only one guy to have a score like mine (Below 99 %ile) in PG...And get 3 genuine IIM calls (I don't call the OBC calls as genu...)...Had I got another question wrong in VA/RC...And I would have got no calls !!!....If somehow, my VA/RC %ile were below 92, I would have missed IIMK call...I know one guy in my office who had 98.93 %ile overall, with 91.9 %ile in VA/RC..And no IIM call.....Another girl..With 99.07 %ile with min 93+ %ile in one section, and still received only one call..IIMK
So, I guess I was lucky...Hey GOD ..Thank you very much !!!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
CAT 07 Results
Hey CAT aspirant
How you find the time just before the results? I tried everything to shift my focus from this thing…But alas!! It was a failure. I am not able to concentrate on my office works as well. And my PM thinks that I am neglecting my work. That’s true, but I can’t help it.
To top it, IIMB site said earlier that the call list will be out by 2nd Jan. Then came the surprise. They changed the date to 10th of Jan on 2nd Jan itself. What a pity!! I mean, if you can’t do something within a deadline, convey it beforehand, and not on the last day!! That’s what my peers have taught my all 4 years. Now I see IIMB doing that thing.
But I won’t complain. Rather I will wait. XAT is scheduled on 6th Jan. Lets do some justice with that at least!!
How you find the time just before the results? I tried everything to shift my focus from this thing…But alas!! It was a failure. I am not able to concentrate on my office works as well. And my PM thinks that I am neglecting my work. That’s true, but I can’t help it.
To top it, IIMB site said earlier that the call list will be out by 2nd Jan. Then came the surprise. They changed the date to 10th of Jan on 2nd Jan itself. What a pity!! I mean, if you can’t do something within a deadline, convey it beforehand, and not on the last day!! That’s what my peers have taught my all 4 years. Now I see IIMB doing that thing.
But I won’t complain. Rather I will wait. XAT is scheduled on 6th Jan. Lets do some justice with that at least!!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Forbidden Pleasure !!
WOW !!!!!!
Today only I am able to logon to my blog from my office. It feels great, especially when you are knowingly doing something wrong. (You dirty mind..What else were you thinking about on a public forum ??)
I won't write much today. Its Friday 7:00 P.M. So time to booze....Pardon me. I am that kind of software engineer who likes to slog on weekdays and hates to spend anything more than 9 hours at office on Fridays.
See you all on Monday. Till then, just chill !!
P.S.: Jyada filmi ho gaya kya ?
Today only I am able to logon to my blog from my office. It feels great, especially when you are knowingly doing something wrong. (You dirty mind..What else were you thinking about on a public forum ??)
I won't write much today. Its Friday 7:00 P.M. So time to booze....Pardon me. I am that kind of software engineer who likes to slog on weekdays and hates to spend anything more than 9 hours at office on Fridays.
See you all on Monday. Till then, just chill !!
P.S.: Jyada filmi ho gaya kya ?
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Home coming and then
Hey..How many of you are working in some private organization in India(Not in home city) and still haven't visited your home for one and a half years ? I know, the number is very less..But then I am one of them.
So what prompted me to stay here at Indore, away from my home, for such a long time ? Do I have (For that matter, I am not seeing someone at Indore !!)..Well, the answer may seem ridiculous, but its true. Its an exam called CAT.
Yes. If any of you are a CAT veteran, then you will understand. And this is third time that I have attempted CAT. CAT has taken its toll not only on me, but also with my family members.
Last time, in CAT 2006 I had 3 IIM calls (OBC Quota man !!!). Then I prepared for GDPI, attended them, waited madly like an pregnant lady, and finally the quota fiasco was over in April,2007. So was my chances of making it to an IIM. But then it was the ideal time to start prep for CAT2007. And me, being an ideal CAT aspirant, did the same thing.
Finally it was over on Nov 18, and I was just ready to visit my home. It is in Durgapur,West Bengal. Wow...It felt great to have 2 weeks leave.But the time before I start my journey was better..As soon as I reached there, it seemed that time is passing by very fast..And 2 weeks was over in just 2 weeks !!!
I am here again at Indore this week.
Lets see if my staying at Indore for 1.5 years makes any impact on my CAT results.
All the best to all CAT takers.
So what prompted me to stay here at Indore, away from my home, for such a long time ? Do I have (For that matter, I am not seeing someone at Indore !!)..Well, the answer may seem ridiculous, but its true. Its an exam called CAT.
Yes. If any of you are a CAT veteran, then you will understand. And this is third time that I have attempted CAT. CAT has taken its toll not only on me, but also with my family members.
Last time, in CAT 2006 I had 3 IIM calls (OBC Quota man !!!). Then I prepared for GDPI, attended them, waited madly like an pregnant lady, and finally the quota fiasco was over in April,2007. So was my chances of making it to an IIM. But then it was the ideal time to start prep for CAT2007. And me, being an ideal CAT aspirant, did the same thing.
Finally it was over on Nov 18, and I was just ready to visit my home. It is in Durgapur,West Bengal. Wow...It felt great to have 2 weeks leave.But the time before I start my journey was better..As soon as I reached there, it seemed that time is passing by very fast..And 2 weeks was over in just 2 weeks !!!
I am here again at Indore this week.
Lets see if my staying at Indore for 1.5 years makes any impact on my CAT results.
All the best to all CAT takers.
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