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The CAT!!

Well, I was looking out for it to bail me out of my boring and underpaid IT job. Preparation was needed, it was ages since i last held a pen. I needed to put in some serious hours to get back in touch with quant and thoroughly brushed up DI basics . Joined the TIME AIMCATs prog too, hoping it'll be of some help in getting me ready for what i was about to face.

After 4 months of on n off prep, the d-day (dooms-day) drew closer.
Finally, on Dec 19th, i felt i had done enough(prep-wise atleast). The paper threw no major suprises at first glance... 75 questions, 5 answer choices were small things that i had come to expect. Started off with quant and it seemed pretty easy. I felt i had a decent chance here, and was silently smiling to myself. All these weeks of effort(doing nothing but maths) seemed to paying off!! Then i went on to Verbal...

and thats where it hit me... Questions that take 5 min to grasp, leave alone answering them!
After a very forgettable 1 hour (ya, i spent an hour on it) went on to DI. The sets were relatively easy and i felt i had done a decent job there as well..

A week after the debacle, i was still in shock. Verbal, one of my stronger points had let me down, miserbaly. Forget IIMs, getting a call from even a pvt college seemed like a distant probability.

Hmmm... seems like I'll have to stay with Cognizant for another lousy year :(