Almost every one of you would be worried about your mock scores. Whether it's AIMCAT, SIMCAT, or any other mock. I was in a similar situation last year when I was working in an office for 9-10 hrs and parallelly preparing for CAT. I know it's tough especially when you have to take mock every three or four days starting from September and you are also worried about a bunch of other exams like NMAT, IIFT, SNAP etc.so the question is how to tackle this,I will try to explain in the next couple of paragraphs what worked for me and helped me get 99.67%ile in CAT 17.
Generally, what I have seen is most of the people in the 90-95 %ile section are not that good in one of the sections out of VARC, LRDI, and QA. Engineers are generally weaker in VA and Commerce graduates are weaker in QA. This may not be the case with everyone, but generally, it's true and LRDI is more of a hard worker and exposure section the more you practice the variety of sets, the more are the chances that you will end up getting a very good score.
In the VARC section, RC is the key factor as it contributes to nearly 70% of the paper. I was always trying to finish all 5 RCs in 45-48 minutes and denote rest of my time to VA where I would mostly solve out of context and para summary questions. Remember that in CAT It's very very likely that you will be able to read all the passages as language is less complex as compared to mock exams. Solving around 70-75% of RC questions and 50-60% of VA questions should give you a very good percentile.
In the Quant Section, I used to divide sections into 4 parts of 8-9 questions each and I used to allocate 12-13 min to each of these 4 parts and my objective was to solve as many as I can during the 12 -13 minutes time duration. Also, mark the questions that you think you can solve but you need more time. Always remember your objective is to get more questions solved within given time and not of solving your strength areas questions faithfully. In the last 10-12 minutes be more alert and see if you can solve some questions using options. I bet there will be at least 4-5 questions in every paper that could be solved from options and would not need more than 60 seconds each and then if time permits get back to questions you marked and try to solve as much and as quickly as you can.
Now perhaps the most difficult section in the last 2-3 years of CAT history, the LRDI section. As I mentioned earlier try to get exposure to different kind s of sets. The best way is to scan last 3 year mocks and solve the hardest set first in each and every mock while preparing. In a timed mock test don't ever do that and solve easiest first. Also, remember that sometimes the hardest question in a set is question 1 so do have a look at all questions before skipping it altogether. Always remember to solve questions from options this trick did wonders for me in CAT17 where I was unable to solve more than 10 questions and then I solved 2 questions each from 2 sets using options and that ended up being the difference between 92%ile and the 99.41%ile that I got.
Another tip If you think Oh.. only 7 days are remaining for mock and you study 3 hrs a day. Study 6 hrs a day and then you would end up doing 14 days work in 7 days and I am sure every one of you is so close to victory so don't you dare give up now.