Yaadein

Trying to use the PG template for the post PROFILE: Acads: X --87.2% XII--81.2% Undergrad Major - GPA/%age -- 71.2% Work-Ex: IT -29Months IIFT Score:-32.76 Any other special thing abt u: No idea Venue :Coffee Board ,Bangalore GD: Topic:Sustaining Economic Growth and Role of Services Number of Ppl present - 12 Time:40 minutes (2minute for participant +15 minute of open round) Brief Snapshot of Discussion: Was 6th in the group.Mostly ppl were IT centric.Tried to tell that IT is not only services.There are many more things.Also , we need to focus on World Story. Gave reliance IPO and Bangalore example in the open round. Other Salient Details: Break time :We got coffee and biscuits.That was the best part of it. PI: Panel Members Intro:1 Fin Prof ,1 Lady Prof. prev. IIFT alumni Questions: Fin Prof exits for a break.Lady takes over. 1)Tell something abt yourself. told 2)Which book u r reading currently ? told 3)u have mentioned a book by Pankaj Mishra in CV form.Can u tell any other books by...

The stakes are high this time. I have given exams other than CAT in the past. 2004 - NA 2005 season - XAT 2006 season - XAT and FMS 2007 season - FMS and IIFT Above data shows the importance the CAT exam has for me. Once the written barrier is broken, time to break the GD-PI bar.

The post I did yesterday was more what others have seen in my attempts. Now ,my take on the beast :- Shot 1 -- Well prepared.Getting consistently good percentiles in VA with a DI havoc now and then in CL Mocks.Did not learn that out and succumbed to QA pressure as well on the D-Day. Result - 92 percentile Shot 2 -- Frustrated by Time AIMCATs.Thought , I am good for nothing.Started getting low scores in the last mocks as well as few practice tests. End result -- 85 percentile Shot 3-- Good learning at IMS.Was doing everything correct except of doing it on the right day.Screwed VA completely along with a bit in DI. End result - 95 percentile Shot 4 -- Started the season badly with a debacle in AIMCAT joining test.Thought the cycle needs to be revisited.Joined CL again.No dangerously good results.Just OK kind.Didn't fired full throttle in the Mocks.But the day it mattered, it happened. End result - 99.54 percentile and 3 calls L,I,K 2 calls A and C were not there due to 92 percentile ...

I love the lines given by Paul Coleho writes in Alchemist:- Quotes from the book :: * “When you want something, all the world conspires in helping you to achieve it.” * “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” (The Old King) * “At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fates. That’s the world’s greatest lie. Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” (Melchizedek, the Old King) * “What happens once will never happen again. But what happens twice will surely happen a third time.” And these lines inspired me to bell the animal year after year and finally I succeeded in my 4th attempt.Its a story of new opportuities and the way life works. Attempt 1 -- 2004 The best preparation I did to bell the CAT. Somehow Infosys happened a month before and although , I did not loose focus ,somet...

Its the fight to the finish.A nerve wrecking drama is about to start in a week. Lets see , how I fare in it.

My first visit to Delhi was in liberalization days of India. Year 1991 November to be precise.We stayed in a hotel in Kalkaji. My one visit to Karol Bagh made me feel that Delhi was not the capital of India ,but also one of the most polluted cities.That notion has changed in my last capital visit.Now I rank Bangalore to be topping the charts in somteime. College student union elections were the hot topics of those days and Delhi was showing the true colours. Visited all the tourist place of interest in a tourist bus. To name them - Red Fort , Parliament House,Rashtrapati Bhawan (the last 2 from outside ),India Gate,all the bade neta ki samadhis (Rajghat,Shantivan,Shaktisthal etc. ),Qutab Minar,Gandhi Memorial Bhawan,etc. The second visit in 1992 was also mind numbing as I saw the aeroplane with a closer distance at the renowned IG airport. My third visit to the famed capital of India happened in 2004 and then it was evident that Delhi had changed.The place was bustling with activity ,b...