Have you Belled the Cat?
Disclaimer: The article you are about to read is rife with sarcasm so proceed with caution.
So today, when I woke up at 10 am (I had no exams which is a why I was sleeping in, of course) to peek at my phone, I was in for a little shock.
My plans of sleeping in were shattered almost immediately when my close friend had diligently messaged me as soon as she had found out the news. The deadly yet liberating CAT Results were out.
No big deal, I thought. I was one of those great souls who attended three classes of coaching to finally call it quits because I couldn’t afford to “waste” my Sunday learning and practising mundane questions. No offence to coaching centres but after spending two years at PC Thomas ( another coaching centre for entrance coaching), I had come face to face with a cold hard truth – coaching centres were never going to be my thing.
Nope.
Never in this lifetime.
And my little tryst with CAT exams go way back – 5 years to be exact when my sister valiantly got into IIM Kozhikode after dodging a couple of bullets of her own.
She is my true hero and role model – who am I kidding, she is always going to be the most annoying pendant sister to me, before anything else.
Coming back to the present, I logged on to the portal to check my result. I am not gonna lie, I did chant a sloka before I typed in my password. I so badly didn’t want to be the black sheep of my family loaded with overachievers ( oh, you don’t want me to elaborate on this, trust me)
Annnnnd..there it was.
Staring right back at me, my CAT 2018 result. Nope, I’m not gonna tell you my percentage because it’s just going to cause a big fit. And even though it doesn’t matter to me, you are probably gonna Google and check for cutoffs to see if I would make it in somewhere. And yes, that’s exactly what must be going on at home right now as I write this article 250 km away. Let me save you the trouble. It doesn’t end well.
Little clue, guys, it’s not that bad. But, it’s not great either.
But what I want to focus upon is how the heck did I score a almost decent sum when I had gone the rogue way and stayed away from practising and learning all together?
How??
Perhaps, it is the “The subtle art of not giving a f₹&k” book which truly brainwashed me. I didn’t worry about the result. I was just there, doing my thing, at my own time – when I wrote my CAT exam.
You ought to try that sometime, it’s very refreshing, especially to a worrisome being like me.
To everyone else who cleared it with flying colours – CONGRATULATIONS!
And no, I don’t think I belled the CAT. But, yes, I did come a little closer to petting it! ( Yeah yeah, I’m using the idiom in it’s literal sense here)
Also, quick bragging point.
My percentile for Vocab is 99.1%.
I guess now, I can finally stop googling words to see if they fit the context when I write my articles.
Did you see why I did there!
Just speaking the universal truth – everybody has their doubts.
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Thank you for reading.
