Three CAT Attempts And An IIM Admit - Keep Calm And Never Give Up

Now you are full of vigour and after rigorous practices, sleepless night of practicing all those Quant, DI and verbal, ah you are now starting to even dream about it, actually you wake up in the middle of your dream screaming that you got 78 percentile in your AIMCAT, I understand, I completely understand your feeling, and finally the D-day arrives, full of enthusiasm you write your CAT for the second time and you come out of the hall all happy inside, but you announce to the world as if you did not do well, but in your inside you are happy and excited that yes, this time it is.

Now comes the most cherished part of relaxing and waiting for your result. As and when the result day nears, you actually start to think that yes that is it, but then comes the result ah, you scored 96 in Quant 96 in DI and 65 in verbal, overall 92 percentile. the result shatters every bit of you that you can possibly imagine.As this was not enough, your entire world around you knows about your aim that you were preparing for cat and you are even more tested when they ask you, "what happened? you cleared?", for which you give a faint smile, with hell lot of agony hiding behind your faint smile.

You go into a mini depression, but somewhere deep inside you hear your voice saying that you can still do it, let's try once more. This time the entire world is against you, you mom and dad say, "Son, some times not everyone has what it takes to get into IIM", face it, but ask yourself, if again your heart says yes, do not give up, neither did I, I put in my efforts, made up my mind and started preparing once more, just a note, I had a 9 to 6 job working as a Software Engineer, and travel time was approximately 2 hours of bike ride one way, usually I arrived home at 9 pm, after having my dinner, I used to practice till 2 am or 3 am.

Seeing the efforts that you put in, your surrounding changes, everyone starts to support you, because they simply love you, the D-day arrives and after a gruelling 3 months you learn through the scorecard available to be downloaded from the CAT website, that you have finally made it and cracked CAT. That is an awesome feeling.

My dear friends, this was my story but the line always remains - the efforts that you put in is never wasted, it is getting accumulated and it will help you in immense measures one day when you need it the most.

So never give up, keep your calm and give in your best, the CAT is after all your and only you can bell it.

PS - Your entire world around you is actually happier for you than you yourself. Just a hint, you experience it yourself.