CAT and Bells..

They say..More than half 115 billion of India is young..young and ambitious. To me, as a young man from a hard working parent. Being ambitious means, a big fat pay check. Not an all on the line entrepreneurial venture, but the relative safety of a job.

And as every college student in India knows..If you want it big, and want it early..CAT is the way to go. And now that CAT is in the season..I sat down to actually marvel at the ingenuity of Percentile (or %ile as I like it).

Percentile is all about Normal distribution curve. Okay, CAT is also for commerce graduates, so let me talk non gibberish. Normal distribution curve simulates the way our world is. Like in any class most of the students score around a certain score, say like 65%. The farther we move from it in either direction, the fewer are the people we find. Just like in a bell.

So the people holding this bell of the future of hundreds of thousands of young people, slice and dice it into a hundred pieces each having an equal area.

Having equal area means that the first part or top 1 %ile (the leading edge of the bell, towards the right) may have a range of 10 marks or more, where as when we travel towards the mean or the 50th %ile. A fraction of a number may be enough to get you several notches below that next fellow. Same happens as we start travelling below the mean. The range starts getting bigger.

This ensures that, if there is one freak genius. As there usually are several. (You just can't help these number crunchers from IITs) Everyone else does not end up with a sorry figure. One of them could have got in upper 200s and the next one barely a double hundred, but if there is no one in between. The second fellow still is better than everyone else, and so both of them end up getting the top percentile.

So young men, and beautiful women (Yes, its biased. And I decide who is beautiful.) As they say it. Go out and have fun. BELL the CAT.

Take care everyone *peace*