After, sweating it out for 2.5 hours in the examination hall and trying to bell the elusive 'CAT' ,I came out with lots of butterflies in my stomach. I didn't know how I had fared off? The paper of CAT'07 was way tougher than that of CAT'06. I came back to my hotel room in bangalore with my anxiousness peaking, not knowing what the result would be... The Answer Keys were put up by various coaching institutes on their respective websites. While the Quantative Aptitude(QA) and Data Interpretation (DI) sections' answers were consistent in those keys, The answers to Verbal Ability (VA) section swinged wildly.
I had a decent idea of where I stood in two sections:
QA-42/100
DI-60/96 ( 1 question was scrapped)
But in VA- it was 12-54 /100
So, my fate, just like that of the Indian Cricket Team, was in dark and dependent on a single section-VA. And this increased my anxiety all the more..
On Jan 8th 2008, when the results were announced, I tried desperately to open the site and to end the whole suspense . But it wouldn't open. I,finally sent an SMS to the Result service of Rediff... And in came the message:
Overall Percentile: 99.79. Total Marks: 134/296
I was through the first stage!!! I finally managed to open the site in the evening and there flashed the result-- Shortlisted for Stage-2 of : IIM-A,C,L,K and I...
My 10th board marks had played a spoiltsport and IIM-B didn't shortlist me.Anyways, I had 5 calls and was very happy after the debacle of IIT-Jee 4 years ago...
I had managed to Bell the CAT,though not as successfully as my friend Rahul Jalan who scored a perfect 100 percentile ( A Herculean effort which made the whole NIT,Trichy proud of him)..
But still, 99.79 was no mean fete... And with this on Jan 08 2008,my journey of CAT moved on to the next phase....
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