Rock On !! and AIMCAT 909

:) as you see the title you might think i have rocked on this AIMCAT 909 but unfortunately the converse is true. Yes, this post is all about two different topics. One about the latest movie i saw Rock ON !! and another, AIMCAT 909.

Hmmm, which one shoul i discuss first? Anyways, lets Rock On !!

As the title of a movie says, movie is AWESOME, FANTASTIC, Excellent. I can not describe it in words. After long tiring days of study this movie indeed rocked me on. Every single aspect of movie was specificly managed and executed. One will never get bored while watching this movie, not even for a second. Farahan Akthar has rocked this movie, rather everyone has, but he was a real surprise when it comes to singing. His vocals are fantastic and music by Shankar, Eahesaan and Loy has put eveyone on to the floor. Story is also flawless. Overall a really good movie to watch, rather a must watch movie.

Now let us come back to AIMCAT 0909. This AIMCAT must have shocked everyone one. Most will say this was the toughest of this season. But i think a few question from VA and QA were doable although not sitters. If one was dependent on sitters to clear the cut offs then this AIMCAT would have been a nightmare for one.

VA section, although not to easy but was the easiest of all other sections and had a few doable questions. The RC passage on Religion-based classification has tw oquestion doable. Rc on War also had 1-2 questions doable. TIME is saying that Upstreme Downstreme argument was difficult and one should have preffered Parajumbles over the previous one but i disagree to this. These question had two very easy questions like Q 12 and 13. Also question on word replacement was also easy (Q 7).

QA section has some really easy questions for e.g. Q 21,26,32,35 and 36 were easy and manageble. But again clearing the cut offs was totally dependent on selection of questions. I am not the expert in this section so i would not talk about it much.

DI section was the nemisis. The toughest of all sections. It was veryt difficult for me to find even a single question to solve. However, DI set 1 was near about doable and the last was the hardest of all.

Overall, i think solving 5 questions with 100% accuracy in 45 mins for each of your stronger section and 5-6 question with 100% accuracy in 60 mins for the difficult or weaker section was the key to clear the cut offs. I was able to do so in VA and QA but as the adage says, "Lalach Buri Bala Hai", after solving 5-6 question from VA and QA, i was tempted to solve more questions and here my negative marking started and i lost the marks earned in earlier 5 questions eventually leading to not clearing even half of the cut offs.Well, this is the story about my experience of AIMCAT 0909. Lets see what AIMCAT 0908 has in its kitty to offer. But one thing i really want to say is, one can not totally dismiss the chances of appearing this kinda paper in CAT 2008.

Regards,

Ameya

S.P.A.R.K Classes For CAT in Pune

I joined S.P.A.R.K Education services Pune today for improving my poor QA skills. I was not aware of any such institute before i came across a thread on PagalGuy. Someone had posted that these people are fantastic and a best place for QA. I even heard that these people solve 300 QA question in one go. Well, to put a full stop on everything, here i am posting about S.P.A.R.K Education services.

I just attended the class yetsterday and i must say QA faculty is really good although i do not want to speculate anything so soon. I attended ALGEBRA class, to be more specific Quadratic Equations. They gave a sheet of 20 questions and we were given half an hour to solve. At first glance i found the question a lil bit difficult, but as soon as faculty started to solve the questions, i thought i am the only dumb ass in this world. The short cuts taught were awesome. Guess what!! we were done with the sheet of 20 question in half an hour with no doubts, no ambiguous thoughts in mind. So i feel i am on right track and have taken the right decision to join them. Facutly was very much confidant to improve on my QA skills.

As only 76 days to go for CAT, i am preparing hard now to crack it (At least i hope to).

For all of you, who are interested, the institute is located at

Shreenath Plaza 22-23, DPC aka Dnyaneshwar Paduka Chowk on FC road Pune.

AIMCAT 910 results

I was searching a boulder to break my head, this was my reaction when i cheked my scores. I marked some questions incorectly !! i was unable to belive it as since CAT 2006 i hd taken evary possible care at least while marking. Anyways this taught me another aspect and i am sure i wont repeat this mistake again.
My performance was pathetic 87.33%ile, thanks to those 5 wrongly marked question, else i would at least have crossed 92 %ile. Anyways, there is no point in lamenting over spilt milk. This AIMCAT was real breazer for all. TIME has declared the cut offs at 10+, 11+, 14+ for QA, VA, DI respectively. I hope to get some time to analyze my performance at this AIMCAT. Sometimes work sucks every bit of your time.
However, whatever may be your score is, good or bad, dosent matter. Important point here is to check and analyze your mistakes and making sure not to repeat them in upcoming AIMCATs.
Never loose hope and never get demotivated. We still have 79 days to go and world can turn 79 times in this time. So pull your socks and fire with full throttle. I will update this blog again before the AIMCAT and after the AIMCAT.
Say it with me, I am improving, i wont loose, i will win..Lets win...This time now or never..

AIMCAT 0910 Analysis

Yet another AIMCAT, well, before i get lost in the work let me put some analysis of the latest AIMCAT 0910.
PS: this is totally my own perception about the test

QA: This section was not that tough but selection of question was the major role palyer in conquering this section. Some question like 1,8,17,20,21,22,31,32,34,35,46,48 should have attempted. I will put the detailed analysis once i finish the analysis. The cut offs are predicted towards 14-16 for QA section.

VA: English was real treat for VA lovers this time. Some passages were real easy ans so were the parajumbles. One should have left the Summary question as those were time consuming. The cut off are around 15-16 for this section.

DI: Ahh, was the fantastic section this time. Last 10 question were all sitters and should have attmepted in not more than 15 mins. Question sets like the "Bus transport", "No of erasers in the office", "Cold Drink brands and companies" were really easy and one should have attempted them with at least 95% accuracy. (For a change I did this time, he he)

Over all the paper was feel - good factor for all those who are struggling in past few AIMCATs. But the task is not over yet. You should tear out the paper with the analysis. Let me know your thoughts and concerns on this AIMCAT. Lets share..

Regards,
Ameya

JMET 2009 Registration Open !!

Joint Management Entrence Test 2009 registration is now open. The test is to be held 14th December 2008 and the organizing institute is IIT Kanpur. You can apply online now from the following link: JMET 2009 Registration Form

Details:
Commencement of submission of data for ONLINE Application: Monday September 8, 2008 at 8:00 AM
Last date for submission of Application Form, Submission of data for Online Application (website closure):
Wednesday October 8, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Receipt of completed Online Application Form at IIT Kanpur GATE Office: Friday October 17, 2008
Date of Test: Sunday December 14, 2008
Announcement of Results: Monday January 5, 2009

Go Apply...

Regards,

Ameya

SNAP Registration to begin by 10th September 2008

Symbiosys National Aptitude Test is to be held on 21st sept 2008. However, the registration has not started as for yet but getting kick off by 10th Sept 2008. You can find all the details at following link : SNAP Registration
Sale of Symbi Collage forms are also starting on 10th Sept 2008
Regards,
Ameya

Permutation and Combination

Today i got fantastic article of basics of P&C, it was really helpfull for me. Hope you people can also make fullest use of it. Here is the link.
Permutation & Combination
Cheers,
Ameya

On the lost path..

I am updating this blog after almost two months. The new website took hell out of me and as expected i lost the touch in studies. I should not write this but the fact is fact. Few personal problems also tied me up from studying and finally poor AIMCAT scores (Few Aimcats are exception). Now i feel that i wasted my big time in this website stuff, but hey i am happy that i have created something. No worries..Here i am starting the studies again. I know most of you people might have gone forward and must have scoring nice marks. But i am not loosing it now, I am starting it again. I need to brush up my quant concepts :) LoL
I know many people would be starting their studies late like me (I am restarting it that is why) so i will regularly update this blog with my ups and downs. Lets see what i am up to. By the way some quick updates:

Exams Dates :
CAT 16th Nov
IIFT 23rd Nov
JMET/NMAT 7th Dec (Tentitive)
XAT 4th Jan
FMS 11th Jan
SNAP 21st Dec

Forms Available:
MDI Gurgaon,
IMI Delhi,
FMS Delhi,
SP Jain Mumbai,
More updates soon..
SNAP Registration to begin by 10th September 2008
So lets get started now..We still have time..We will crack the CAT..

Ameya