My Journey towards CAT

In 2005 around the same period, I lost my IBM interview in the final round..After all the shortlistings, the final competition was between me & an IIMB guy, who eventually got in..I had 5 1/2 years of experience & he had 1 & 1/2 years..His IIMB tag pushed him in..I started contemplating on" Why not CAT?"..My major constraint was my family i.e. My wife & my 2 year Old Daughter, but then whatever Iam doing is for their betterment only...I would love my daughter to study in some Baldwin or Bishop cotton school rather than a mediocre school in which I did my schooling..It all depends on a father's background..My father, a poor clerk could provide me the best possible things in life which he has never got & now its my turn..Being a father is such a wonderful thing where in you thing more about the younger one than anybody else..So..It took around 1 month to convince my parents, my in laws & my wife about my decision to do an MBA & as usual they were all bothered about the 2 years, when I will not being earning, away from my family etc..& it was very difficult for me to convince them showing the rosy picture of Life after an IIM degree....

In September 2005, I joined TIME Institute's weekend classes..As I had explained in my earlier post about my problem with English, I dilligently started working on Vocabulary as I felt it plays a key role in cracking the English Section...From then till today, I had been zealously thinking, eating, dreaming, sleeping CAT..Sometimes I feel like doing some injustice to my family as I hardly spend time with them..Before deciding about to take CAT, I used to spend my whole time with them & today once Iam back from Office, I get busy with my books..Everyday my daughter comes to me with an expectation that I will play with her, sometimes I do admit her to do so, but often I ask my wife to handle her..Life has changed dramatically, its now a mechanical, monotonous life..

My Model CAT exams were started in May..I was flying high during the 1st 5 exams with my percentile ranging from 94.35 to 99.35..& then the next 7 exams (till last sunday ) were great debacles with percentiles ranging from 39.45 to 80.85 (Last one was 72)...Now I don't know what to do?. Onething is that, iam getting a guilty feeling that atleast I could have spent my time with my family instead of doing all this drama...But we learn certain things only by the hard way..Well ..I hope myself getting back to the 95 + percentiles very soon, then things will automatically be in place..It will take only one exam to put me back to track...Will come back with latest updates soon

I thought through this post I will introduce myself...Well Iam Prem, 29 Years Old, Working in an IT company as an Asst Sales Manager. First of all, I would request you all to pardon me, incase of any mistakes you find in my language.

I was brought up in a small town in Tamilnadu , a place I would love to spend my entire life if given a chance. I grew up as a typical village lad...Honestly no exposure to the outside world....Life was fanatastic & in retrospection, I still dream about going back to those wonderful days of adolescence which had dissappeared with beautiful remnants in my heart..I still remember those days when I used to go out for fishing with my friends & then beaten up by my mother, The day I smoked my first cigarette, those dirty roads where we played cricket, those ramshackled movie theatres which were our hide outs every weekend ...

A day came, when I was forced to leave my town to do my Engineering..I left my town with a broken heart as I had just by then lost my MBBS seat by 3 marks....Though the place where I did my Engg was hardly 85 Kms away from my town, I was reluctant to go..Still with so many wellwishers around who wanted me to become an Engineer, I left my town as it was a pride to get an Engg admission, atleast I was the 1st Engineer from my family & may be the 10th or 11th of my town....On the admission day, I went to my college with my entourage...My parents, my sister, my cousin, her children, my friends etc..Every body were staring at our rustic faces..From their countenance, It was clearlly evident about their thoughts, What are these guys doing here???????.....I still remember the principal kidding me by asking..R u getting admiited alone or with all of these 20 people...

College Life...It was as rosy as it will be for any body..First 2 years it was difficult for me to cope with the fast moving people & their culture..From a bucolic background, I used to drool at all the good looking girls as I had never seen beautiful girls in my town, envied at people speaking Beautiful English, a character you would have seen in many of our Indian movies....Candidly speaking, to construct a sentence, It took me 5 to 10 minutes & then I used it with all the gramatical mistakes in the world (Somebody should learn from me how to develop a Bad English)..My advantage was that I knew Telugu, Tamil & Hindi, hence I had a great friends circle..I started learning proper spoken English, thanks to my friends..Days passed..Pastoral Prem gradually started growing up to an Urbane......College got Over & Life was waiting for me to teach all the harsh lessons of corporate life...

Got into a company through Campus selection as a Sales Executive where I learnt the hard lessons of sales & life..So many criticisms, so many times berated by the customers for some stupid policy of the company..So many times reprimanded by the Manager for not bringing business..In this process, I started learning the beautiful art of Sales & here Iam at the age of 29 as a more seasoned Sales Manager winning twice the best performmer award.......