CAT day began with a ride to the ITER, located in Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar. The centre was quite plush and scenic. The initial biometric checkign was very smooth this time, taking less than a minute and I was at my system at 8 am sharp. Now this was the tough part of waiting for around an hour before the exam begin.
One important thing is to not peeking continuosuly at the blank screen, and focusing on somethign else, especially for people who land up very early in their seats. I spent the time in doing a few stuff, starting with meditation for a while, thinking about my last year CAT effort which saw me land a good score of 99.68% and a cool dozen IIM calls, including IIM A and IIM L. 15 mins before the exam beginning, I started doing a little bit of mental maths. Mental maths or doing speedy calculations is one activity I do before every exam as a warm up exercise to get my mind going.
Once the test began, the first section that came was English. The paper had clear demarcation of two sections , RC and VA. I started with the RC passages. The passages were of small to medium length and easy to comprehend. The questions though were slightly inferrential in nature, though not very twisted. Three passages, which were slightly lengthier, had six questions each, whiel the other three had three questions each. I ended up completing all the 24 questions in 40 minutes. Next I started with the VA questions, which included all non-MCQs. The para jumble questions were there, where on had to arrange 5 statements in an order and input your answer. Then there were two jumbles where one had to find out the odd statement from amongst the five given, four of which would form a logical paragraph. Also, the paper had a few summary based questions, where one had to find the best summary from the given options for a paragraph given in the question. Overall the VA questions were tougher compared to the RC, and also the lack of options made the task difficult here.
The next section was DI-LR and again both were clearly demarcated. The DI sets were of moderate difficulty level, but were lengthy and time consuming. One look at the LR questions made me realise it was a tough LR set this time. The LR sets had loads of information and a lot of analysis needed to be done to crack them. I ended up attemping 20 questions, LR/DI combined in this section,doing most of the DI questions and one and a half LR sets. Overall, the toughest set of this exam. The DI set on line graphs was relatively easier, though it needed some calculations. The LR set on arraning number from 1 to 343 in a cube confused me at the end of the section, and less time at end meant I could get only 2 of the 4 questions in that. Still, I ended the section happy with 20 attempts, as I foudn the section a real tough one. However I was pretty determined to rake up bigger numbers in the next section, which was Maths.
The Maths section again was the easiest one in the paper, as in CAT 2014, and I found a lot of easy to moderate level questions. There were a few tough ones though put in between, and one had to be careful not to waste time in doing those, before going through the entire paper. I ended up with 28 attempts and 1 random guess in the paper.
At the end, I checked my overall attempts in the paper, which showed 82 attempts. It was pretty similar to the number I had got in CAT 2014. Overall a decent day and I felt happy as I left the exam hall. The only regret was that may be I could have got 1 0r 2 more questions in that LR set involving cubes. Anyways, a good day at the office for me.
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