After the huge buildup of tension and excitement before the CAT result was announced, XAT was exactly opposite. My roommate Varun had gone home. I was alone in my room and was playing RON (Rise of Nations).
Just then Daddu (Jayant) knocked on the door. When I opened he told me that the XAT result had been announced. For a moment I thought he was kidding, but he said Charul had just called him up and gave him the news.
Then begin the agonizing experience of trying to open the XAT result page on our pathetic Reliance Dial-Up. It took some time to open the webpage and even more when it did because there were a lot of options to choose and pages to navigate before reaching the result page. Finally there it was.
Without doubt it was one of the happiest moments of my life.
Here are my percentiles for XAT
Verbal -> 99.03
Quants-> 99.37
Reasoning-> 97.58
Total->99.9
I was on top of the world. But then there was no information about the call. As soon as the thought came to my mind the floor seemed to slip from under me.
I immediately called up Charul and asked him why I couldn’t see whether I had a call or not. He told me that call related information was on a different page. Oh my God!!! There it was.
Congratulations!! You have been shortlisted as one of the eligible candidates for admissions interview.
I cant express my emotions in words at that point of time.
Was it relief? Or Was it jubilation?
I don’t know what it was but it felt so good.
In case you noticed, throughout my preparation I was worried whether I would be able to clear Quant cutoff in XAT and here it was; I had the highest percentile (among the three sections) in Quant.
So I was past the preliminary stage of getting into a B-School. It was the interviews next.
Preparing for the interviews is without doubt the most interesting and most difficult part of the interview. You never thought there was this much to your life to know about!!
Read about interview preparations and MOCK and actual interviews in the next few posts of this blog.
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