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Sunday, May 21, 2006

CAT viewed as cricket game

This is the article that i wrote when I was preparing fr the mother of all exams called CAT. Abt roughly Nov 2004.

Cricket : Game :: Cat : Test


Yups this is a perfect analogy. mmmm now this start a some creative post from me. plzz respond about how u like it??

First up few comparisons between cricket terms to *CAT test. they are:

Balls bowled: questions thrown at you.
Bowlers used: The various areas u are tested (QA, VA/VR, DI etc)
Type of ball: type of question (tricky, easy,medium)
Fielders : Trapping you into wrong area or lets say wrong choice in cat.
Runs : Correct answers acheived by you.
Wickets : Negative marking
Overs : The each spell of concentration (may be equivalent to single page in the cat paper)
Spinners : English section
Pacers : Maths Section
Off spinner : VA /VR
Leg spinner : RC
Right arm Fast : Pure difficult qa question
Swing Bowler : LR
Right arm medium fast : DI

The situation here is. You are chasing ofcourse. so u only bat and u don bowl. The biggest catch in this game is there is no

set target. target is decided after you play the game. The balls here are 150(i.e 150 questions). that is 25 overs. (approx 25 pages). Now this sets up the game.

Venue : Ofcourse the mecca of cricket(ur test centre ofcourse)
Time : 10:30 am to 1:00 PM
Game starts at 11:00 am (a two hour game.)

25 overs will be bowled.(i.e 150 balls or rather say questions) theres one differnce here the bowler wont wait fr the batsman. the ball just keep coming. no telling that people are moving near the sidescreen(i.e ofcourse distractions in ur test).



Remember you play right handed always.(i.e you mark with your right hand (now how u decipher right is upto you.))
Now i will come to teh 5 bowlers in this test

1)Shoaib Akhthar ( a pure menancing fats bowler. now if u are following my post carefully. u shd have guessed akthar : QA questions)
2)Irfan Pathan (a King of swing andis ou LR questions)
3)Muralitharan (the wily fox is our VA/VR questions)
4)Shane Warne (the crafty spinner is RC questions)
5)Mcgrath (this guy is Steady and so he put his spell of DI questions on us)

Each of them can have any amount of overs. you donno the no of overs fr each or say no of balls. You don know which 2 bowlers will be combined to form one section or how many will be clubbed. This all sets fr something which is way ahead of world
challenge going to be organized by ICC next year. Now You dont represent any team. You dont have any specific wickets. You are the only batsman. There will be negative runs for every wicket you lose. Now the extent of that is unknown. Dont think easy balls means easy runs. one miscued shot and the fielders are there to catch every shot of urs.
coz here is the list of fielders in the team:

1) Ricky Ponting
2) Mohd Kaif
3) Dion Ebrahim
4) Yuvraj Singh
5) chandana

now the keeper is ofcourse Mr Gilchrist who can take any catch u think u can just edge past him fr 4 runs. (i.e ofcourse

guessing answers)

Now this is wat i make up come one guys tell me wat ya think abt it. I think is awesome. Now hows that fr creativity.



Let me be honest here, am not too creative actually speaking but somehow came up with this idea and have crafted out this in one nite. Juz feel i have to thank rediff.com fr giving me a great platform fr trying something new. And also wanna add that am having a shot at this cricket game. (now u can say what i mean here is ofcourse test)


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice analaogy da...Good job .

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