My CAT experience

My CAT pretty much started the way it should not have. 10 minutes gone and not a single answer marked!!!! After this i decided to take a 2 minute break, relax and continue....it`s good that i did this, coz i would have potentially screwed what now seems a good enough performance!!....I used to write last years CAT papers at home and used to get insane scores. For instance i took the CAT 2006 paper scored 231/300. I came to know that the highest in this paper was 186. I felt that given this kind of form i would surely crack the cat. Well, i realized writing a cat paper@home or some simcat is very different from actually writing it on the C-DAY!!! The pressure is absolutely unbelievable.!!! It is immense!! Combined with all that the CAT 2007 paper was really tricky!!!
But at the end i think god helped me through the paper.
My scores technically read
QA - 45 (According to the institutes this should fetch me 99+. I could have easily scored 10 more.Absolutely foolish mistakes!!!)
DI - 53 (Stupid Stupid Stupid mistakes in at least 3 questions. Should have scored at least 70. As it stands now i`ll be in for about 97-98+)
VA - 16 - 47 (Thats right...thats how the huge variation is. Lets just wait for the IIM`s)
OA - 114 - 145 (Could have easily had 20 more!!.. .. As it now stands i have about 99.3 - 99.9 percentile range. If i get 20 plus in VA should at least get 3-4 calls. Institutes have predicted cutoff for at least 1 call as 100).

Well, November 18th was not my best performance. It was definitely not my 100%. But i hope it`s good enough. Now i can understand the plight of sports persons when they are faced with such pressures. I have realized why no one breached the 200 mark last year.
I`ll be really surprised if anyone does so this year!!.....But i have learnt a thing. CAT is not just an aptitude test, it`s also about how u feel at that time. Also i guess VA is a bit of a lottery and u definitely need luck to go with aptitude!! Till Jan 5th keeping my fingers crossed, but internally i do feel confident!!! I`m sure God is with me!! I`ll just say "I believe, I believe , I believe ".