Frankly speaking, I had never expected to achieve the much-hyped 99%ile, guess I just followed my strategy and held my nerves on the D-Day, which in fact are the two most important lessons. As simple as it sounds, you can't even imagine the number of candidates who have ruined months of hard work by forgetting this dictum. More on this later, let me set a few things straight first.
Quantitative Ability can be game-changer for Engineers, but might be a nightmare for others. This section requires the most theoretical preparation, compared to other sections. Hence, it makes all the difference between a serious and casual exam taker. The hard work that you put into this section will definitely reward you. I would like to put 5 preparation & Exam day tips that can help you achieve 99+ percentile in Quantitative Ability.
Sometimes things come to you at moments, when you expect them the least. I started preparing for CAT’19 in June 2018. I was a third-year computer science student at Delhi Technological University and was still a little torn between going for a job or MBA after college. I joined TIME classes at Jhandewala and my only commitment to CAT was ensuring that I attended each and every TIME class.
Here is the pen picture of the intended reader- A person who did schooling in vernacular medium, haven't read more than 5 English books in addition to curriculum books and is not good with the English language. [in short an engineer belonging to rural India] If you fall in the pen picture, go ahead; this article has been written for you, although categorization might look judgemental, but hey! You need to be realistic, and some time to move forward you need to accept reality, I did!
Urvi Mehta is pursuing Economics Honours and is a final year student of SRCC. She completed her schooling from The Heritage School, Gurgaon. She believes the unique pedagogy of her school helped her to build her personality and has defined who she is today to quite an extent! She is also a trained Kathak dancer and she holds a certificate from Pracheen Kala Kendra University. Urvi is a big fan of “FRIENDS” and in her free time, she likes to watch movies and shows. Moreover, she loves to read mythological fiction and solve Sudoku.
While you may find hundreds of articles on what you should do and how you should prepare for CAT and subsequent interviews, here's my take on somethings you should definitely NOT DO. I learned it the hard way but I hope my story paves a way to all those who wish to outgrow their struggles to get started on their CAT journey.
Hello Everyone,
VARC – Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension is the first section that appears on the CAT. It is considered to be the most scoring section, unless things get really bad as they did in CAT 2019. So, let’s first understand how the VARC section looks like in the CAT and what are the areas that we as an aspirant need to prepare for –
Frankly speaking, I had never expected to achieve the much-hyped 99%ile, guess I just followed my strategy and held my nerves on the D-Day, which in fact are the two most important lessons. As simple as it sounds, you can't even imagine the number of candidates who have ruined months of hard work by forgetting this dictum. More on this later, let me set a few things straight first.
Quantitative Ability can be game-changer for Engineers, but might be a nightmare for others. This section requires the most theoretical preparation, compared to other sections. Hence, it makes all the difference between a serious and casual exam taker. The hard work that you put into this section will definitely reward you. I would like to put 5 preparation & Exam day tips that can help you achieve 99+ percentile in Quantitative Ability.
Sometimes things come to you at moments, when you expect them the least. I started preparing for CAT’19 in June 2018. I was a third-year computer science student at Delhi Technological University and was still a little torn between going for a job or MBA after college. I joined TIME classes at Jhandewala and my only commitment to CAT was ensuring that I attended each and every TIME class.
Here is the pen picture of the intended reader- A person who did schooling in vernacular medium, haven't read more than 5 English books in addition to curriculum books and is not good with the English language. [in short an engineer belonging to rural India] If you fall in the pen picture, go ahead; this article has been written for you, although categorization might look judgemental, but hey! You need to be realistic, and some time to move forward you need to accept reality, I did!
Urvi Mehta is pursuing Economics Honours and is a final year student of SRCC. She completed her schooling from The Heritage School, Gurgaon. She believes the unique pedagogy of her school helped her to build her personality and has defined who she is today to quite an extent! She is also a trained Kathak dancer and she holds a certificate from Pracheen Kala Kendra University. Urvi is a big fan of “FRIENDS” and in her free time, she likes to watch movies and shows. Moreover, she loves to read mythological fiction and solve Sudoku.
While you may find hundreds of articles on what you should do and how you should prepare for CAT and subsequent interviews, here's my take on somethings you should definitely NOT DO. I learned it the hard way but I hope my story paves a way to all those who wish to outgrow their struggles to get started on their CAT journey.
Hello Everyone,
VARC – Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension is the first section that appears on the CAT. It is considered to be the most scoring section, unless things get really bad as they did in CAT 2019. So, let’s first understand how the VARC section looks like in the CAT and what are the areas that we as an aspirant need to prepare for –
