My Journey To NITIE After 3 CAT Attempts | Ft. Anupam Sinha, NITIE

Without worrying about the results, I gave the exam. It went well and I did most of the questions from RC. I was confident that RC marks will increase the overall percentile.

Results came. I scored 72%le, with only 37%le in VARC.

2nd April 2017 → The Journey to 3rd Attempt

It was my dream to study in a top B-school. But my consistent failures always pulled me down and by now, I accepted that I am not worthy. Meanwhile, I started looking for a Job Change, but to my luck, I could clear only 3 out of 11 interviews, and that too all 3 of them kept my offer letter on hold. Again a setback for me. Life was taking a hard turn.

At this point of time, I wanted to convey my feelings to someone, I wanted to cry a lot and eventually used to call my mom every single day for an hour. She always motivated me for the exam and asked me to try for one more time.

I buckled up again. Pulled out all my books from the rack. I enrolled in AIMCATs and started again from the basics. This time I saw a significant increase in my performance. I used to wake up at 6 in the morning and studied till 10 (with small breaks in between). I tried to focus more on RC, so in-office hours I used to utilize my free time by reading a lot of passages from different websites. Not only at my desk, but also in the library. My office used to get over by 8 and I usually reached my home by 9. After having dinner and usual talks with my roommates, I made it sure to study from 10.30 till 1 in the night.

I made sure that this routine is followed on every single day. I hardly missed any mocks this time.

Now it was the time for the D-day. As in the previous 2 attempts, this time I went carefree and wrote the exam without any expectations.

Results came and Whoaaaa….. To my surprise, I got through with the maximum change in my VARC with 98.68%le.

Now I understood, why I couldn’t change the company, why my offer letter with 3 MNC’s were upheld and why it was necessary to fail.

I hope, I could be of some help to those who failed in their previous attempts.

Cheers,

Anupam Sinha