So finally the test date came......the 16th of november........i always thought that it will be the day of redemption......i reached the test centre at around 9 for the test was to start at 10.30.....but we were asked to be present atleast 1 hour in advance..........my IMS centre was very near to this place so i went there and collected wishes from all my teachers and friends......always remember the carry as many good wishes as you can......always gives one confidence........apart from that i was wearing what i refer to as my lucky dress........i am no great believer in superstitions but this is one that i just cant avoid........i felt very confident and that was the purpose......
Anyway the bell rang and we were distributed the sheets........one look at the instructions and i was shocked........40 questions in some section in a 90 question paper?i was sure this would be the english section and i was proved right.........anyway i had confidence from some good va performances in the past few tests and i was not perturbed.........
i always followed this strategy in mocks of starting with the DI section coz i believe that it can give you the maximum momentum........if you can get 3 or 4 questions correct in quick time at the beginning you will see your confidence level shooting up.....this time i searched the whole paper and i saw that english had 20 questions on verbal ability.......i had plans to solve all of them as they dont consume a lot of time and my comprehension performance in mocks was not strong......
So i started with the english section and attempted 4 or 5 questions here..........then i moved on to the maths section and solved some here........i had had kind of a slow start to the test and decided to move on to DI quickly to get back on track.......contrary to the views of some people i actually liked this section a lot in this years paper......
In the end i dont know how those two and a half hours vanished so quickly........out of the 90 questions i had attempted 71....the break up was 20 in maths,21 in DI and 30 in english......i came back to my coaching centre after the test for discussions.....some other students were called in too and we discussed various questions.......i saw that i had done reasonably well in DI and maths.........the english answers like always were a little ambiguous so i thought that i would check the keys later.......
I was shocked to see the keys in the evening......out of the 30 questions that i had attempted in english i was only getting 15 right......but i had very strong belief in 2 of the answers which i had ticked and for which every coaching insti had a different answer than mine........I thought i had messed up my chances.....barely looking at calls from 2 IIMs at the max.........not the result i was hoping for......
Anyway 8th Jan came quickly........the result was coming out the next day i.e. the 9th......the IIMs came out with their keys in the evening and i was elated to fing that 4 questions in the english section had different answers than what the instis had published in their keys........i got 3 of them right and 1 wrong to give me an overall benefit of 2 questions and 10 marks........
When i finally saw the result later that night i had got 55 in maths(15 correct,5 wrong),64 in DI(17 correct,4 wrong),55 in english(17 correct,13 wrong).........an overall score of 174 out of 356......out of the 71 questions i got 49 correct and 22 wrong...an overall percentile of 99.93.........along with the scores the results said that i had calls from IIM ahmedabad,calcutta,lucknow,indore and kozhikode.....and that was sweet......i celebrated a lot with family and friends for the next few days.........
In between i had also appeared for 2 other major MBA exams in XAT and FMS........the results for these two exams came out on the 19th of jan and the 4th of feb respectively......I got a mediocre 99.44 in XAT but the good thing was that XLRI did give me a call in the course that i had applied for..........FMS called me for the GD/PI stage of both the courses i had applied to.........
So all in all it was a great exam season and i had success in every exam that i gave.........coming after the tragedy that i had with the previous national level exam i had taken in the form of IIT this was a big relief......and it was vindication for me......:)
I will come out with my GD/Pi experiences in the posts after this.........so watch out......
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