Episode 5 of "Dad... I wanna start up my own business"

The D Day!!!

It was Oct 16th 2008, which meant there was 1 month for CAT....
The day is fast approaching, the time is ticking by as fast as ever, the tension rising, CAT is in the air. Everything seems to be changing except for my Mockcat scores. The law of conservation playing its part and keeping my hopes down and buried. I wouldnt have worried too much about it if I dint have the same question on every sunday at lunch from dad,"Son, how was your paper? Can you make it into the IIMs or any other top B schools?" That is when i feel like swallowing a huge bone along with the sunday special chicken or like pouring hot rasam over my head and get out of there. But due to my love for food, I could never do that. I gave the constant reply which I had given him for the past 23 years... "I m doing fine dad. But I can still do better".

It was 2 weeks to CAT and I was desperately trying to improve my scores. I was sitting in the TIME building and trying to make head or tail about some compresension passage when I overheard a pretty girl saying "I got 34 questions right in the last times paper!!! One more right and I could have crossed 98%le". Is she kidding?? How can someone get 34 questions right and be near the 98%le mark. Something somewhere was wrong!!!! I looked at my result immediately to see that I have done 29 questions right all together having attempted 64 questions out of 75. Thats it... I have realized mistake!!!
Thats when I recollected my most hated teacher's favorite words "Aim for 100, you ll get 90".These are the words which are ruining me currently. In CAT, if you aim for 100 you end up getting a 60 like what happened to me. Aim for 90 you ll get 95. The max figure of 75 questions always pushed me to attempt atleast 55-60 questions. From this week, its only 35 questions. I had decided I am going to attempt only 35 questions. 35 questions, 150 mins. Suddenly CAT started appearing a lot easier.
The next weekend was a wonder!!!
Quant: 95
Verbal: 87
DI: 96
Overall: 94
WOW... Vamsi .. your fortunes seem to have turned!!!
The D day has arrived!!!!
I reached the examination hall. I could see nervous aspirants along with anxious parents. I could see students praying, medidating, smoking and all different ways to curb their tension. I went into the hall with confidence.
10:00Am:
The game began. I started with DI as usual and moved ahead and finished verbal. I had done my quota of 24 questions from these 2 sections. Had a look at the watch. It read 11:30 AM. Normally I allocate 40 mins for quant. But now I had 60 mins which meant atleast another 5-7 questions. "Whats happening to me, am I really going to get into the IIMs?"I thought and was alerted by the invigilators announcement, "Last 20 mins!!!!". I was shocked to hear that. I initially thought the invigilator was wrong. I said "Sir, the time is 11:30 . We still have 1 hour". He said "You write for another hour and give your paper to me next year same time same place". I was shocked!!! I looked at my watch again. It was a beautiful masterpiece by SWATCH, only if it had not gone dead at the right moment. The watch stood still at 11:30 AM. I had done my best in the next 20. Once I was out of the hall, the first thing I did was to hit the watch hard on the ground and enjoyed watching it shatter to pieces.

Theres nothing much to do other than await for the results which would be released soon.