For many aspirants, DILR is still a tough nut to crack. DILR questions are highly unpredictable and confusing. Are you someone who is struggling to find ways to navigate through this section? To help you in the last few days, we have Amrita Mishra with us! Amrita will answer your questions related to the DI-LR section.
Hello, I am Pallavi Beniwal and currently, I am pursuing the 2-year PGP at IIM Bangalore. I hope my experience and strategies will help and motivate you in the last leg of your preparation journey. Before we go ahead, here's a brief about my profile: my academic scores in the order of 10th/12th/graduation are 95/89.7/88. I studied B.Tech. Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and worked for 20 months with Nestlé India Limited.
DILR has always been a tricky section. It is "The Game Changer". Often people are confused about which caselets to solve, how much time should one invest in each caselet, etc. Here are the best resources from current students in top management institutes that will help you in cracking the DILR section in CAT 2020:
Although the CAT pattern has changed, the one thing that would not change is a golden mantra that every CAT aspirant should be aware of if not already. Without beating about the bush, here it goes: "1-2 questions in about 2-3 sets can be cracked without solving the entire problem set." This simple trick and an enhanced concentration helped me raise my score from an 84.1%ile in CAT 2018 to a 99.5%ile in CAT 2019 in the DI/LR section.
Shirin Nizar is a mechanical engineer, born and bred in the city of the 3C's Thalassery, Kerala. He did his 14 years of schooling and scored 9.6 in his X and 82.6% in XII. He also completed his 4 years of bachelor's from Thalassery with a CGPA of 7.41. A 2019 pass out, he didn't take up any job offers as he wanted to give his everything towards CAT because he knew this would be a life-changer for him. Since he realized that the potential would be massive, the experience and exposure from a top b-school would be immense, and so he gave a good 4 months to CAT and finally got 99.45%ile and calls from all the IIMs except B. And presently, Shirin is studying at FMS. Here is the entire journey of Shirin how he was able to get 99.45%ile(VARC, 77.55, 99.88%ile | DILR, 52.93, 99.15%ile | QA, 38.28, 92.74%ile|)in the CAT exam.
Atishaya Jain is presently studying at IIM A, the dream college for many MBA aspirants. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT Mandi, 2014-18) with a bachelor's in Mechanical engineering (8.79 GPA), he had scored 10 CGPA in SSC(class X CBSE, 2012) and 92.6% in HSC(class XII CBSE, 2014). Post-engineering, he worked for a few months as a sales officer in HPCL and later moved on to explore the educational sector where he worked as an IIT JEE maths faculty at an educational firm. Here is the entire journey of Atishaya during his CAT preparation and how he managed to score 189.43 with 99.84%ile [VARC: 50.48, 95.47 | DILR: 64.91, 99.86 | QA: 74.03, 99.76 ] in his first attempt.
Devesh Bansal is currently studying in IIM Kozhikode, he completed his graduation in Economics Hons from Kirori-Mal College, DU with a CGPA of 7.78. He scored 9.2 CGPA in his 10th standard and 96% in the 12th. With a work experience of 8 months in an emerging startup, he managed to score 177.87 marks with 99.65%ile ( VARC: 96.87%ile; DILR: 99.5%ile; QA: 99.6%ile). Here is the entire experience of Devesh from his first attempt with 95%ile to finally achieving 99.65%ile.
Digvijay Singh, presently a student at IIM Calcutta, worked as a senior business analyst at Axis Bank worked for 30 months. He completed his mechanical engineering from BITS with a CGPA of 8.11, XII with 77.8%, and X with 9 CGPA. His CAT score is 196.72 with a 99.90%ile(A OS - 56.5 OP- 97.45 %ile DILR OS - 68.2 OP- 99.92 %ile QUANT OS - 71.98 OP- 99.67 %ile). As a working professional, Digvijay has shared some tips with us which helped him personally to ace the CAT exam in his first attempt.
For many aspirants, DILR is still a tough nut to crack. DILR questions are highly unpredictable and confusing. Are you someone who is struggling to find ways to navigate through this section? To help you in the last few days, we have Amrita Mishra with us! Amrita will answer your questions related to the DI-LR section.
Hello, I am Pallavi Beniwal and currently, I am pursuing the 2-year PGP at IIM Bangalore. I hope my experience and strategies will help and motivate you in the last leg of your preparation journey. Before we go ahead, here's a brief about my profile: my academic scores in the order of 10th/12th/graduation are 95/89.7/88. I studied B.Tech. Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and worked for 20 months with Nestlé India Limited.
DILR has always been a tricky section. It is "The Game Changer". Often people are confused about which caselets to solve, how much time should one invest in each caselet, etc. Here are the best resources from current students in top management institutes that will help you in cracking the DILR section in CAT 2020:
Although the CAT pattern has changed, the one thing that would not change is a golden mantra that every CAT aspirant should be aware of if not already. Without beating about the bush, here it goes: "1-2 questions in about 2-3 sets can be cracked without solving the entire problem set." This simple trick and an enhanced concentration helped me raise my score from an 84.1%ile in CAT 2018 to a 99.5%ile in CAT 2019 in the DI/LR section.
Shirin Nizar is a mechanical engineer, born and bred in the city of the 3C's Thalassery, Kerala. He did his 14 years of schooling and scored 9.6 in his X and 82.6% in XII. He also completed his 4 years of bachelor's from Thalassery with a CGPA of 7.41. A 2019 pass out, he didn't take up any job offers as he wanted to give his everything towards CAT because he knew this would be a life-changer for him. Since he realized that the potential would be massive, the experience and exposure from a top b-school would be immense, and so he gave a good 4 months to CAT and finally got 99.45%ile and calls from all the IIMs except B. And presently, Shirin is studying at FMS. Here is the entire journey of Shirin how he was able to get 99.45%ile(VARC, 77.55, 99.88%ile | DILR, 52.93, 99.15%ile | QA, 38.28, 92.74%ile|)in the CAT exam.
Atishaya Jain is presently studying at IIM A, the dream college for many MBA aspirants. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT Mandi, 2014-18) with a bachelor's in Mechanical engineering (8.79 GPA), he had scored 10 CGPA in SSC(class X CBSE, 2012) and 92.6% in HSC(class XII CBSE, 2014). Post-engineering, he worked for a few months as a sales officer in HPCL and later moved on to explore the educational sector where he worked as an IIT JEE maths faculty at an educational firm. Here is the entire journey of Atishaya during his CAT preparation and how he managed to score 189.43 with 99.84%ile [VARC: 50.48, 95.47 | DILR: 64.91, 99.86 | QA: 74.03, 99.76 ] in his first attempt.
Devesh Bansal is currently studying in IIM Kozhikode, he completed his graduation in Economics Hons from Kirori-Mal College, DU with a CGPA of 7.78. He scored 9.2 CGPA in his 10th standard and 96% in the 12th. With a work experience of 8 months in an emerging startup, he managed to score 177.87 marks with 99.65%ile ( VARC: 96.87%ile; DILR: 99.5%ile; QA: 99.6%ile). Here is the entire experience of Devesh from his first attempt with 95%ile to finally achieving 99.65%ile.
Digvijay Singh, presently a student at IIM Calcutta, worked as a senior business analyst at Axis Bank worked for 30 months. He completed his mechanical engineering from BITS with a CGPA of 8.11, XII with 77.8%, and X with 9 CGPA. His CAT score is 196.72 with a 99.90%ile(A OS - 56.5 OP- 97.45 %ile DILR OS - 68.2 OP- 99.92 %ile QUANT OS - 71.98 OP- 99.67 %ile). As a working professional, Digvijay has shared some tips with us which helped him personally to ace the CAT exam in his first attempt.
