If you are planning to take CAT 2010, it is high time that you decide your areas of strengths and weaknesses and decide the strategy. In this article of MBAUniverse.com, experts will discuss how you can tackle your areas of weakness for CAT 2010.

Out of the three sections of the CAT exams, namely Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, you are bound to have some areas of weakness which you cannot handle even after you have completed your basic preparation.

The best way to handle your areas of weakness is by getting the basic idea so that you can attain at least the minimum percentile. According to Gejo Sreenivasan, Principal Consultant, Career Launcher, when you have judged your areas of weakness, you should study enough to attain the required percentile. Apart from that, devote maximum time in excelling your areas of strengths. "Study enough to get the minimum percentile in an area. If you are weak in a particular area or section, don't spend much time making it strong, especially when there is just two months left," he says.

Vivek Gupta, CAT expert, author and IIM Bangalore alumnus, mentions that you should first classify the level of weakness in those areas. If you see that there is hardly any way to improve them, you can consider of leaving a particular topic. "As the time left is only 60 days, you should start choosing your strength areas. In quant, it is very unlikely (though not impossible) that a particular topic would have more than 4 questions. So if Permutation & Combination is just going from top of your head, you can decide to leave that topic for good and concentrate your energies in mastering all other topics," he says.

He further explains the logic behind the scoring of percentile. "You are not expected to score 99 per cent but 99 percentile marks which can be achieved with 50 per cent marks. Similarly, you can choose to leave one or two topics from other sections if you feel the need."

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