Once it was decided that I would go on with my IIM dream the same year, it was time to plan the details. I hadn't taken CAT 2010 and so it was time to consider the alternatives. GATE was out of question as I plainly hated my engineering degree and could not imagine learning anymore electronics. JRF ,UGC etc were beyond my scope. Th final pick was between GMAT and GRE and I apparently decided on GMAT. Since I had a good base in quant(or so I thought, Mr Kaushik of IIMK would prove otherwise!!), I decided to do my preps online. GROCKIT was the site I mainly referred to. The exam registration cost $250. Well, I was on extended maternity leave, my bank balance was zero and I had a 5month old child to take care of. No exaggerations there, but it was rather difficult! Rajeev paid my exam fee, mamma agreed to take care of Siddhi whenever I was studying and I dug in hard. To our greatest anxiety, my bro was down with chicken pox and none of us including me, mom or my dad had had it ever. Dad was down next, so we were all in the risk category. Chicken pox always had a 2 week gap before it buds in the next person, so you always have to wait to know if you are infected.
And I registered my GMAT for November 17th and behold on November 7th, red bulbs emerged on my skin!!! Yeah....chicken poxy babies had found their way to my blessed body as well! I did not want to cancel my exam. i had to fight, and quite a fight it was!! On November 15th I bathed after the infection, the days in between were a haze, I could not remember any part of it except that I was working working and working. I worked harder than I ever did my whole life. And then Nov 17th came. Rajeev took me to Rajagiri college where I had my exams, and I went in. I was wearing a long sleeved kurtha to cover my still sour pox marks and my eyes were still tired.
The exam went pretty well, atleast the math part of it .Well, under any standards, 710 is not a bad score. Even Harvard averages on a GMAT score of 712. But would that and a 6/6 on analytical writing guarantee me an interview call in my IIM? I completed the application formalities to IIM Kozhikode and waited.....
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