next cat

forget about improving i couldnt even get as many as I got last time. I got 27.5. I think it's the worst that can come out of me. no preparation for this week test also i'll atleast try to spend some time planning a strategy.

Got 2 mid-sems next week. Advanced Mechanics of Materials and IT for Power.
1st mid mechanics I got 5/20. i didnt expect more marks as I attempted only one question but thought the test was for 15 marks. test was from 8-9:30am and I was in the hall for exactly 10min. went late 5 min and came out at 8:15. I solved the problem from the topics I prepared and the rest I didnt even know how to attempt. same was the case with jenny, we both went and came out at the same time.
2nd mid is on this 28th tuesday. shud do well this time.

the other test is on thursday.
gotta do 4 assignments in mechanics. submission date is long gone. will try to complete the assignments this week.

CAT

77 days to go for cat.
I didnt even start the BRM part a properly and got a mail from ims 'most of you must have done part b'. I think it's time I start my preparation serioulsy. I wrote the first test - ACT1 in ims and got 44 marks, pam 49, bavs 47, nalli 41, if I remember correctly. we were told 45 shud be a good mark.
Tomorrow we have sim cat 1 and I didnt prepare a damn for it. not that I prepared well for any other exam in my life. today night assy, vamsee and I.........say count 1 today.

CAT: last week test report : Spent more time on quant and less on verbal, rc than required. shud try to balance this next time. DI/DS was correctly worked according to time. I spent more 50 mins on quant and I had only 1 hr for di/ds/ver/rc the other 10 min just evaporated reading the paper and thinking what to attempt, what not, what to do next etc. I think I can save this time if I practice for some time. Right now the stategy I'll follow is to do quant first followed by di/ds and then finally ver/rc. I think I shud plan this better after the test tomorrow.
Another important thing is that I left the questions without reading in bulk. I will try my best to avoid this tomorrow. if I leave like that the problem is that I'll have to miss some easy questions without reading. I'll try my best to overcome this in tomorrow's test.
Last week: PS 18/8/16 VA-7/7/5.25 RC-6/8/4 DI/DS-13/3/12.25 LR-7/2/6.5
Target : 45min 8 10

Target is to complete ps in 45 min and try to keep the score. va shud be improved to 8 and rc to 10. it's ok if I dont improve in ps and di/ds. But in va/rc I have to somehome get atlest 15. That means I shud improve my total score by 5/6 marks atlest and all that in ver/rc only. it's ok for the time being that I atlest keep the scores I got in the other 2 sections.
Strategy: 45 min ps + 40 min di/ds/lr + 15 ver + 20 rc
total 120min.
I think I need more time for ver/rc.will decide after the test tomorrow. maybe I can reduce time for ps or di/ds/lr
I'll try to do some reading now and sleep.

FYP: will try meet prof tomorrow about the leadership paper.
g nite

campus placements

on the blog after a long time....
was busy with placements. as such I didnt prepare much, but I got placed. I was happy with that. Of the several attempts I made I could make only to TCS and I'm really happy with that, though at times I think about the low pay I'm not worried coz ppl told me that the raise is good in TCS so I aint worried bout future and who wants to make big bucks right away?
Infy : assy, imran and I were chatting the night away till 5am and jaya woke me up in the morning for the ppt. I wasnt actually interested in writing it and thats y I didnt prepare for it. but somehow I was convinced and wrote the test and got through it. And for the interview part I was very tired in the afternoon - courtersy the sleepless night. things didnt go right in the interview and I got screwed up. I didnt know what to talk there....not even things like "tell me about yourself". but I was satisfied with my answers till he started with the puzzles questions. I was asked 3 puzzles and I didnt answer any of them. I shud have still managed somehow but I was out of mood and didnt answer simple hr questions also after that. The first interview was a learing one as I framed my rule 'keep ur cool in the interview'.
TCS & Verizon:
CSC:
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