Aakash - a general category student , a male and a engineer too but he dared to write CAT 2011 in order to get into a reputed B-School of Country.This was the very first decision he took off his own unlike others which was biased by society and people around him. He started preparation since March in order to make sure he gives in ample hardwork to pursue his dream. Started off with weekends study, attending coaching classes in order to make sure he is in touch with subject everytime. Reduced regular weekend outings and other activities to put in more time and effort for preparation.
Being a optimist he never thought of rejection or selection but cared only to put in more of hardwork . VA was not his strong hold so he focussed more on VA as compared with QA. He was distinction holder in Math at school level and is math olympiad qualified for year 2004. In September he gave GMAT and score merely average with around 99%ile in QA which was of same level as was CAT 2011. After a month he took CAT and attempted 26 out 30 question , was rest assured of getting 95+ as he had practiced for 6 long months and was his strong area. Finger Crossed , VA he was unsure of his score and waited for result.
Results are Out. Aakash was fucked to limit as his QA percentile was merely 84.xx and VA was 92.xx . Clueless! he just looked at monitor and kept wandering what all "chutiyapa" he might have done in Exam . It was like in a moment all his hard work and effort gone leaving behind a big void to understand his mistakes . He went to surf pagalguy for all his queries and grievances and found a post by Coverner of CAT 2011 :
What about Aakash? He understood that beating around bush is not gonna work . Whether you cry or argue on any forum , reality is that IIM has sole control and results are final and mandatory whether you are satisfied or not. Game was played and Aakash was out - HOW and WHY dosen't matters a lot now a days, Only things that matters is whether you are in or out. Gone are the days when hard work did paid off, in modern scenario hard work must be accompanied with right execution and luck to fill in the voids which you can never be aware off. Aakash is still motivated for MBA but unsure about path to be chosen ahead.
Being a optimist he never thought of rejection or selection but cared only to put in more of hardwork . VA was not his strong hold so he focussed more on VA as compared with QA. He was distinction holder in Math at school level and is math olympiad qualified for year 2004. In September he gave GMAT and score merely average with around 99%ile in QA which was of same level as was CAT 2011. After a month he took CAT and attempted 26 out 30 question , was rest assured of getting 95+ as he had practiced for 6 long months and was his strong area. Finger Crossed , VA he was unsure of his score and waited for result.
Results are Out. Aakash was fucked to limit as his QA percentile was merely 84.xx and VA was 92.xx . Clueless! he just looked at monitor and kept wandering what all "chutiyapa" he might have done in Exam . It was like in a moment all his hard work and effort gone leaving behind a big void to understand his mistakes . He went to surf pagalguy for all his queries and grievances and found a post by Coverner of CAT 2011 :
"One has to understand how scores are worked out. If a candidate does well, it does not always mean his score will be excellent. Scores are relative"
" If there are any issues they are solved psychometrically."
"Normalisation :Different papers are set for different days of the exam. And all these papers have different questions, though some questions may be common. The performance to these questions help us know the difficulty level of the paper. So, all papers are brought to the same level of difficulty and scores are given accordingly."
" If there are any issues they are solved psychometrically."
"Normalisation :Different papers are set for different days of the exam. And all these papers have different questions, though some questions may be common. The performance to these questions help us know the difficulty level of the paper. So, all papers are brought to the same level of difficulty and scores are given accordingly."
Holy shit ! Some students who got in ninties last year just managed to get score in single digit , does this is what he meant by normalisation and psychometric. Few question i would like to put forth to computer based CAT typo exams;
- How students will analyse their mistake if actual mark is not shown to them? In paper based exams atleast it was clear which mistake you did and whom to blame for?
- Normalisation: One topic might be easy for me and hard for other, one may be more effective in first slot rather second but how these factors can be normalised
- Why can't transparency be manitained may be by sending students a complete details of thier question and answers.
What about Aakash? He understood that beating around bush is not gonna work . Whether you cry or argue on any forum , reality is that IIM has sole control and results are final and mandatory whether you are satisfied or not. Game was played and Aakash was out - HOW and WHY dosen't matters a lot now a days, Only things that matters is whether you are in or out. Gone are the days when hard work did paid off, in modern scenario hard work must be accompanied with right execution and luck to fill in the voids which you can never be aware off. Aakash is still motivated for MBA but unsure about path to be chosen ahead.
Congrats to all the fellas who managed to get "in" and bell the CAT.
