Based on a true incident experienced few days before. The day when my little brain and the lady luck conspired against me and
“ ALL WAZZ NOT WELLLL “.
I am used to leading a vegetating lifestyle& belong to the lower echelon of the LOGICAL world. Hence I experienced such grave situation.
The scene starts with the Showing off of my inherent intrepid characteristics. I opened my jacket on taking my seat in the room, in that harsh cold freezing temperature. The consequence of it was my shivering during the entire duration of 2 hrs. Readily Kept the jacket aside & was enthusiastic for giving X my best shot.
The invigilator distributed the Q paper to the class. Q.P comprised of 35 pages. My first take at Q.P
OOPS it contains more no. of pages than the max number of Qns that I would be able to solve.
I really gave my best shot not to the paper but to the table on which I kept my Q paper. This was so spontaneous & tremendous producing a cacophonous sound enough for gathering the attention of whole class. The whole room gave a horrifying look to me. As if I possessed some weapon of mass disruption. The whole surrounding seemed pugnacious and arrogant to me at first instant.
Though I was not impulsive and continued concentrating on & going through first few questions. It was explicit by this time that XAT was mocking me with the message :
“ ALL QUESTIONS ARE ENCRYPTED & CANNOT BE ACCESSED ”
I endeavored to find some questions of my level. Elated to find & solve a maximum of 5 questions myself. This was the maximum number of correctly solved simeaultaneosly. Further my affection for flowers made me attempt the DI set on flowers. (The paper seemed to be playing with my emotions.) The result was betrayal of my affection. Time loss of 10 min accompanied with no question solved. Then again went for another gullible DI set. In hope of solving the 4 questions in the set correctly. This time the result was better than previous ( 2 c + 2 incorr ). The time4education remarked on the website as “ THE DI SETS WAS ALMOST UNDOABLE ”. The level of difficulty increased exponentially as I moved on the logic ability section. The difficulty level was next to IMPOSSIBLE for me.
“ if impossible is written in the dictionary of fools “ Then yes, I am one."
Decision making questions always amazes me. My very decision of taking XAT itself was so poor. So, How could I be certain of arriving at right answer in any caselets. Such controversial sections should be avoided. I did the same leaving out 80% of decision making questions. Tried to solved logical puzzles instead. Another trap in the offing, it almost exhausted my precious time. Although I solved about 2 sets with 75% accuracy. ( tolerance level of – 20%). Thanks to XAT, I came to know that puppies are kept in pens through a set. To exacerbate the matter a crossword was also included. In my entire life I had filled a maximum of 2 entries in CR puzzles. How could I attempt it when it was associated with logic also. I was dumbfounded via such set.
I was dancing to their tune in a bovine and non-pragmatic way.Finally 25 minutes left for the verbal section.
One question with lots of (al,de,il)-lusion seemed to me as an optical illusion in itself.
I thought that some questions were misplaced. Otherwise how could a probability question be a part of verbal section. Nothing seemed to mitigate my grievances. The verbal section also composed of decision making, logical ability. Para jumble question have thier own weird story. However the sentences can be arranged, they always seem to be correct. The scenario at that point of time lead me to a state of hallucination.
As usual the invigilator exploded the time bomb. Guys the final 10 min remains now. WHAT??? I almost lost my mental balance. As I had just attempted 4 question from English section till that time. I needed to hurry and so solved a paragraph without even reading it with my general conception. On verifying the answers from internet, found that the net result was –ve. (1 right +5 wrong). Before submitting the OMR I found that, I had attempted just 12 questions in VERBAL section.(7 during last 7 minutes with 50% accuracy).
Finally had my wildest guess of the season. Attempting Q no .93 without even looking at the question. The logic was 93 = 9+3 = 12 : 12 / 5 (no.of options): rem = 2: so marked answer to Q no 93 as 2.
Guess what???????? THE ANSWER WAS 1. I WONDERED HAD I SUBTRACTED I COULD HAVE GOT IT RIGHT.
With my power-packed performance & my illogical guessing techniques, I can guarantee that:
my probability of cracking XAT & CAT = probability of Osama bin laden winning noble peace prize.
Hence proved = probability can be equal to ZERO
People always have this misconception that “probability is never 0”. Its zero for me most of the times.
Throughout I attempted just 40 questions thus maintaining symmetry with my number of attempt in CAT. Well said “Nature loves symmetry”. I love nature more than anyone.
I am quite confident that the result would almost be the same for both exams.
Surely 99 + on the cards for me from both exams.
( 54.XX FROM CAT + 45.YY FROM XAT = 99.ZZ )
…………………GUYS & GLS ALL THE BEST FOR RESULT………….…..
Hope all of u get through. Though i am sure that i won’t be a part of your successful LEAGUE.
(LAGI SHART: @ ROOM 204 ------kitne ki ???)
