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A roller-coaster-ride of a life

It has been a long time since I've written my last post. Life had been one hell of a ride - these past few months, literally and figuratively. The first of the several good things started to happen to me this January, when the results of the CAT (for admissions into IIMs) were announced on the 11 th . Strangely enough, I got a score of 90.95 percentile; meaning I was better than about 91% of the people who took the test this year. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that about 91% of the people were too over-prepared or too under-prepared than I was. This is particularly true as my preparation (if at all you can call it that) is almost non-existent, what with the depression (due to job loss) and the feeling of failure I was experiencing in the few months leading to the exam. I guess most of the other test takers got carried away by the simplicity of the exam paper and attempted more questions than they could risk- the result being they lost marks in negative score for