With 100 days left to CAT 2015, the aspirants preparing for the exam are also getting anxious regarding the shape and content of the most preferred MBA/PGDM entrance examination leading to admission in top rated B schools in the country.
CAT 2015 may, with number of proposed changes prove to be the most tricky entrance examination to top Management Institutes in India like IIMs, FMS, MDI, IMI, IITs, NITIE among others. Most of the candidates who tried to gain confidence by putting in great efforts to prepare for CAT 2014 in their first attempt but couldn’t score high to get the desired IIM, have been preparing for past many months to crack CAT 2015 and get the opportunity of getting admission to one of the dream B schools.
Relax! No high LOD
The anxiety as shared by Prof S K Agarwal expert on Verbal Ability and mentor on CAT 2015 preparation may prove to be detrimental to the exam. CAT 2015 aspirants despite preparing so hard could lose more marks in the exam if they do not remain cool, confident and motivated. As already shared in various articles on MBAUniverse.com, CAT 2015 could be full of surprises and changes but the difficulty level of the test may not vary too much. So be relaxed and continue your preparation on the same lines without compromising on practice sessions, conceptual clarity and the topics that you think are forgotten in CAT.
Instead of getting panicky and raising your anxiety level, you should focus on covering the topics. What didn’t appear in CAT 2014 may resurface in CAT 2015. So make sure whatever topic you are preparing, you should prepare it in full, leaving no room for errors and omissions.
Tips for second timers
How you could move forward with your journey of improving the CAT score from low to high and make your dream of getting admission in IIM come true is shared by Prof S K Agarwal, expert on Verbal Ability and mentor on CAT 2015 preparation
If you had percentile score of 80 in CAT 2014, you could very well score 99+ percentile in CAT 2015. The need is to analyse where you lagged behind, overcome the weaknesses and begin afresh. Please remember IIMs do not need a professor in Quant or verbal Ability. On the other hand you must have fair understanding of the concept on which questions are based and how to crack it. This is not the lack of confidence but the shadow of overconfidence and temptation to attempt more questions without understanding them prevent you from scoring high.
CAT 2015 is going to have more questions in a changed pattern. However it may not have higher difficulty level as CAT 2015 proposes to increase academic diversity in IIM class rooms and also proposes to reduce the weightage on Quant section.
So apart from preparing Quant and DI, please focus on Verbal section more. Make sure that you divide Verbal section preparation in sub sections and cover the basics of grammar, sentence formation, subject verb agreement that could help you in understanding the RC passages, summarising the paragraphs, FIJ questions. Improve your reading habits and focus on editorials in news papers and periodicals. This will help you to a good extent to improve your scores in Verbal Ability section.
Please remember although CAT has gone for perceptible changes but its charm has increased manifold and the number of CAT aspirants have always been very high. The level of competition is among top 40,000 candidates who fight to get the top position. If you can put yourself among top 4000 you can expect the IIM of your choice. IIMs have always been the most sought after B-schools, due to the great learning experience that you get there, the knowledge and Management skill they impart to their students and the excellent pay packages, their students get after completion of the course.
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