Grapes are Sour!

Mum went to visit an acquaintance of ours a few months back. The acquaintances' daughter was preparing for the CAT. The girl was confident that with her level of intelligence and practice, she would definitely crack the CAT and get a call from the IIMs with her dream destination being IIM A.

She scored in the low 60s percentile.

Not the one to give up, the youngster started preparing for the GCET (Gujarat Common Entrance Test - a state level MBA/MCA test) and appeared for the first everr online edition of the same.

She failed to secure enough marks to get in any known college.

A few days back when mom went to their place, the girl had already taken admission in some run-of-the-mill 'MBA' institution. She was of the unequivocal opinion that the paper was too tough to allow students to score well. When mum informed her that her son (yours truly) had also appeared for the same and had topped the paper, the girl had the convenient excuse that as different question sets were given on different days, obviously I had got the easiest set and she had received the most difficult one. The paper was biased and hence the skewed results.

Ahem ahem...

How about the fact that I had also topped in 2006 when every single person was given the exact same paper?

Or how about the fact that I had scored pretty well in national level entrance exams, enough to have secured a seat at IIT Madras in their MBA program...?

None of that counts... According to her, she deserves a seat at the IIMs and the world is biased against her...

Talk about grapes being sour!