If you are getting around 80 percentile in your mock tests, you must be aiming for more. There are still around 50 days left for CAT 2011 and if you make the right strategy, it will not be impossible for you to improve your score from 80 to above 95 percentile. But how? In this article of MBAUniverse.com, Rav Gandhi, CAT expert and JBIMS alumnus shows you the way.
Read further to know what Rav has to say.
Scoring 99 percentile is becoming more of a distant dream for most of the CAT aspirants, especially if you are scoring less than 95 percentile in your mocks. In the following passages you will know what to do and what not to do for CAT 2011. Tips discussed in this article will help you improve your current score of 80 to 90 percentile to 99 percentile in these last 50 days.
What not to do
Stalling: Most of the students have a tendency to always find an excuse.
“I was supposed to start my preparation for CAT 6 months ago to meet my deadlines”
“I study hard for a week, then not do much for another”
This definitely is delaying your progress. Stop giving excuses for your performance and fasten your seat belts, you still have 50 days to go.
Studying the same topic from different books: Some of the students do same topic from different books, especially if that is your favourite topic. This is not only waste of time but also prove to be counterproductive. Better solve one book completely. It will also improve your confidence.
Too little review: Most of the students when taking mock tests and practice exercises don’t spend much time on the review and content. You must go through every single question and its explanation available to you. Reviewing a paper and analysing the mistakes is more important than solving a paper.
What to do
Devise the game plan: Making a plan for CAT is like going on a diet with a plan or going on a war with a combat strategy. The key is that it has to be a realistic plan. Don't start off at a rhythm that you cannot maintain. Divide your next 50 days into a daily schedule of doing areas proportional to their weightage in CAT.
Do basics thoroughly: Let me suggest a sample technique for doing basics. Example for quant do three topics a day spending 45 minutes on each topic and taking 10 minutes break between topics. Select the topics which have more weightage in CAT for example covering Equations, Numbers and Geometry covers most the quant preparation you need for 99 percentile!
Review Mocks: After taking the CAT mock go over the paper to figure out what you got wrong, then try to find out why, and establish specific goals for improving over the next one week. Goals while after reviewing mocks fall in one of three areas: speed, strong basics, or accuracy.
About the author
Rav Gandhi is founder of CATking. He has been conducting strategy and shortcuts workshops for CAT, SNAP and CET in Mumbai and Pune for the last five years. He is an alumnus of JBIMS Mumbai.
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