CAT Stuff

Thursday · 14 Nov 02 · 09:08 PM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: General

In the last TIME All India Mock CAT that I wrote (last Sunday), there was an interesting question in the Data Interpretation Section.  The question went something like this, there was supposed to be an institute called JNT, which conducts a test called the Sham TAC.  And to pretend that they have lots of students writing their test, they adjust the ranks.  For example, if the rank was between 50-100, the Sham rank would be 1.25*(actual rank) + 50 or something.  There was a table of numbers like this, on which the questions were asked.  In the next question they said that JNT decided to conduct another test called BEST - Biggest Ever Sham TAC, where the scheme for assigning ranks was slightly modified.  Correspondingly, there were a couple of questions on that data.

I later realised that if you take the word IMS, and increase the letters by one, you get JNT!!  It happens that IMS is another institute which offers CAT coaching and they had actually conducted a free test sometime ago, and the hype was that about 30,000 students were writing it, as compared to 6,000 or 7,000 in the TIME exams.  Apparently, the TIME people were making fun of them!  Heh, high-class fun!

I have my CAT Exam on November 24th...

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