The CAT
75 Questions. 150 minutes.
Correct answer: 4 Marks
Wrong answer : (-1) mark
No of people : 1.91 Lakh
Difficulty : As difficult as holding your breath to death (Hyperbolized)
Year : 2006
Another CAT gone, another year passed. "Bell the CAT", they say. I say, "Kill it".
My discourse with Harish on the night of the 18th (In words : eighteenth) of november brought out some really important points which needed immedidate attention.
1) "Instructions overleaf" section:The present instructions only list out the do's and the don't's. We think it should be more elaborate. The IIMs should justify each and every point.
For eg : One instruction reads :"Bring with you HB pencils, eraser, sharpener and a wrist watch"
We reckon, it should read something like this : "Please(It's always good to be polite) bring with you HB pencils, an eraser, sharpner and a wrist watch. To err is human. You are human. Therefore, you may err. To correct your mistakes, we offer you this unique opportunity of marking your answers using a pencil. The eraser can be used to wipe out your mistakes (Yes. We have made it possible!). In case of pencil failure(Broken lead), we allow you to use a sharpener. A wrist watch may be used to keep time".
2) We also strongly believe they should serve cool drinks, cream biscuts, pizzas and play good, soothing music to keep down the tension levels of candidates.
3) They should come out with a question bank with 352 questions . Important questions should be marked with double stars, like, **.
4) Adverting to point 2, if the same cannot be implemented, Candidates should be allowed to sit next to friends and take up tests from home. This would allow for huge savings for the IIMs too. A win-win situation.
5) Candidates need more choices. They must be allowed to answer any 10 questions out of, say, 200 questions. However, the number of answer choices must be limited to two.
If the above are implemented, I am sure that the IIMs will go a long way in admitting better and more intelligent students like me. Else, God save the IIMs.
Correct answer: 4 Marks
Wrong answer : (-1) mark
No of people : 1.91 Lakh
Difficulty : As difficult as holding your breath to death (Hyperbolized)
Year : 2006
Another CAT gone, another year passed. "Bell the CAT", they say. I say, "Kill it".
My discourse with Harish on the night of the 18th (In words : eighteenth) of november brought out some really important points which needed immedidate attention.
1) "Instructions overleaf" section:The present instructions only list out the do's and the don't's. We think it should be more elaborate. The IIMs should justify each and every point.
For eg : One instruction reads :"Bring with you HB pencils, eraser, sharpener and a wrist watch"
We reckon, it should read something like this : "Please(It's always good to be polite) bring with you HB pencils, an eraser, sharpner and a wrist watch. To err is human. You are human. Therefore, you may err. To correct your mistakes, we offer you this unique opportunity of marking your answers using a pencil. The eraser can be used to wipe out your mistakes (Yes. We have made it possible!). In case of pencil failure(Broken lead), we allow you to use a sharpener. A wrist watch may be used to keep time".
2) We also strongly believe they should serve cool drinks, cream biscuts, pizzas and play good, soothing music to keep down the tension levels of candidates.
3) They should come out with a question bank with 352 questions . Important questions should be marked with double stars, like, **.
4) Adverting to point 2, if the same cannot be implemented, Candidates should be allowed to sit next to friends and take up tests from home. This would allow for huge savings for the IIMs too. A win-win situation.
5) Candidates need more choices. They must be allowed to answer any 10 questions out of, say, 200 questions. However, the number of answer choices must be limited to two.
If the above are implemented, I am sure that the IIMs will go a long way in admitting better and more intelligent students like me. Else, God save the IIMs.
posted by swaroop at 3:58 AM
7 Comments:
Also, one more thing. They say, "You may leave now", at the end of the exam. By CAT standards, this is very vague. It should be, "Dear Candidate, now that you have successfully sat for 2 and half hours and written the exam(CAT), I, on behalf of all IIMs, ask you the candidate, to leave the examination hall in which you the candidate wrote the exam. Have a nice day. It was pleasure conducting this test for you".
Hey, did you republish your entire blog? Everything is screwed.
I see two-two postings postings for for every every posting posting of of yours yours,, in in my my feedreader feedreader..
(the last one's a fullstop, not etcetera)
[Harish] He he... Asht dodd announcement maad-dre yella yedd hogirtaare munche ne.
[Aneesh] Yup. I moved to Blogger beta. And what's feedreader?
He he, sik-sikkapatte channagide, nimma hasya!! Bhesh, bhale, shahabhaash! Ellllla onde.
Neevu matte Harish CAT conduct maadidre bahala sogsagiratte, ivre.
[Arjun] Double redundancy there.
[Subba] Olle points-na raise madidira. If you ask me they should also mail the answer-keys (all 16 sets) to all the candidates along with the hall-tickets. This I think will go a long way in brining down the stress levels.
Going forward, they should abolish CAT and admit every one who applies for the exam into IIMs.
And then those people without an IIM degree will be in great demand and all will be good in the Kingdom of God.
I *might* be high.
[Sandeep] You may leave now!
All CATs are not the same dear,
Some cats needs to live, some saw the sentence "kill the CAT" and they killed it, it left them with a bunch of nerds without work , responding to blogs.
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