Community updates: The UnderDogs Team and the Dream Team is gearing up for CAT and wedding bells ring for forum member rani_das

With the CAT just a little more than a month away, obviously the preparations are in full swing. Something that the members of our Dream Team (DT) and UnderDog Team (UDT) will agree. For people who are still unaware of the DT and UDT concept, this is a little headstart; every year at PG we form a team on the lines of a cricket team of 11 members, two reserve players and a coach. DT is made of people who have shown consistent rocking performance in their mock tests and are sure to continue it in the CAT. UDT, as the name suggests, may not be consistent with their performance in the mocks but are backed by a strong will to score a high percentile in CAT. Every year both the DT and UDT produce high CAT scorers who join the leagues of the best b-schools in India.

The Dream Team right now is in a comfortable position and most of the people are taking mocks to fine tune their already super scores. The average score in the DT is around 99 percentile and are inspiring each other through their regular conference chat sessions on G-Talk. The DT is all excited and looking forward to CAT 2009. According to Shashank, member, DT, “‘ ‘nervous’ is not an emotion here”.

The UDT is also back in full form after a short dull phase where the members were not very active with the preparation. However, after this week’s conference on GTalk and motivation and inspiration from previous UDT members and the cheerleaders, the team is looking up. The members have prepared a road map for this week, that is, till October 27 and they plan to squash Data Interpretation or DI (which was becoming the nemesis for many) by solving all AIMCAT DI sets this week. The newly launched PaGaLGuY Prep also features in their schedule primarily to prepare for the verbal section. With all of this in place the UDT is set to crack the CAT with panache. “The great part about UDT is that apart from the members, there are a lot of other people posting on the threads and motivating us”, says Milind Agarwal

And yes, another one of our community members is going down the wedding lane. Rani known as rani_das on PaGaLGuY is tying the knot on November 15, 2009 with Capt. Phillips Thomas at St. Antoney’s Forane Church Kizhakkambalam, Kochi. Congratulations to her, and puys, don’t forget to attend the party. Wedding food is great! Login to the forum to join others in wishing the couple a wonderful life ahead.