My CAT story of 2023 and 2024

I might delete it later , But just posting it as i have no one to talk to , and i am currently having a lot of emotions in my head , and sometimes it feels very hard to control emotions . Please dont mind guys .

I am a GNEM, fresher. I have been fairly good in studies till 12th. Around 2019-20, a lot of family issues happened, and I also failed NEET even after trying hard. My friends distanced themselves from me, and a lot of relatives started tagging me as a failure who just wasted his parents' hard-earned money and delivered nothing. I became alone and slowly got depressed.

I was clinically diagnosed with depression and underwent counseling for six months, followed by two years of medication. I still remember how those medicines used to make me feel drowsy all day. With professional help, I slowly started healing. I restarted playing football (it used to be my hobby in school life), and finally, after a long 2.5 years, I got completely healed.

In the meantime, I had already taken a drop year, and to not delay my studies further, I enrolled in Physics (Hons.), as it was my favorite subject in school. During my college life, I discovered my interest in business. Also, coming from a Tier-3 town, I felt pursuing an MBA would definitely give me the right exposure and help me build a career in business. So I started preparing for CAT and scored 98.79 percentile in CAT 2023.

After the long process of GD-PIs, the best convert I had was IIM Kashipur. My joy had no bounds, as this was a step closer to my dreams. But the end-semester exams were yet to be conducted. I informed the IIM authorities, and they told me it was fine if my last exams were completed before July.

Life often has different plans. I went to the campus, stayed there for two nights, and on the third day, I got to know that the end-semester exams had been delayed by two months and would now be conducted in August. I informed the authorities about this, and they told me this was against their policy and that I had to leave the campus at the earliest.

It came as a bolt from the blue. I had to come back home. I was very sad for a week but then restarted my preparation. This year, I scored 265 in NMAT and 99.04 percentile in CAT, and I’m expecting a good score in SNAP too.

I know after all this, the score that I got in CAT is not extraordinary, but finally, I feel happy that I gave my 110%