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CAT Preparation Strategies For The Last Two Months By An IIM Lucknow Student

CAT Preparation Strategies For The Last Two Months By An IIM Lucknow Student

With less than two months to go for CAT 2017, I can’t help but think about the phase when I was in the same situation. Mounting exam pressure, crunch deadlines at the office, shrinking social life, all of this and what not. After two casual attempts, I had made up my mind to give in my 100% for CAT. I had started my preparation almost nine months before the exams. What followed was months of hard work and sleepless nights, but all of this finally paid off. I had calls from IIM C L K I and all new IIMs. I finally aced IIM Lucknow and became a proud Hellite. In this article, I will share with you a few pointers that helped me ace the exam. They are not words from the Bible but simply a few strategies that worked for me. Do give it a read. I hope they help you meet your goals too.

samaksha vaish
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How To Score High In The DI LR Section Of CAT?

How To Score High In The DI LR Section Of CAT?

The DI LR section has always been playing the role of a second fiddle to the other two sections of CAT i.e. VA and QA, well at least in the test takers’ minds and subsequently their test-taking strategies. Till CAT 2014, one could actually confer lesser importance on the DI LR questions since they were split into half and stuffed into the then CAT’s 2 sections namely VA & LR and QA & DI. But times have changed.

Abhinav Bansal
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3 Ways To Improve Your Reading Comprehension Score For CAT

3 Ways To Improve Your Reading Comprehension Score For CAT

From last 2 years, the pattern of CAT has remained consistent. There are three sections QA, DILR, VARC; each one of them with 34, 32, 64 questions each. To do well in CAT, one needs to score consistently in all three section or to say minimum 90%ile in each section would be favourable for getting calls from Top IIMs.

Sachin Mandot
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From Nowhere To IIM Bangalore - Atul Jha's CAT Journey

From Nowhere To IIM Bangalore - Atul Jha's CAT Journey

Atul Kumar Jha  IIM Bangalore CAT %le 99.24 CAT 2012 My first encounter with CAT was in 3rd year, NIT Jamshedpur when I found my roommate buying coaching institutes course material. Being a Mechanical Engineer, all I wanted then was a decent job with a good pay. However, peer pressure made me enrol in one of the coaching institutes. Spent (rather wasted) Rs 30,000 as I hardly opened any book or took any of the mocks. Very soon the 4th year came and I got busy with my placement procedures. CAT was scheduled in November as usual, but I chose to skip it (a big mistake) and decided to go for the companies coming that day. Got rejected from that company as well. However, destiny worked in my favour and got placed at BPCL.

Indrajeet iQuanta
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How To Prepare For CAT - An IIM Student's Perspective

How To Prepare For CAT - An IIM Student's Perspective

My journey to get into a top b-school of the country began in the summer of 2015. Even though I was very much sure of my decision to go for an MBA after my graduation, there was always a doubt in my mind whether I will be able to make it through the CAT. The reason for my apprehension was that since my childhood I had always dreaded Maths and in an exam like CAT where you are constantly under the pressure of time while solving the questions, it takes the difficulty level to the next step.

Himank Agrawal
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On Pragmatism In The Times Of B-School Tests

On Pragmatism In The Times Of B-School Tests

So it’s that much awaited time of the year again! One after another, the notifications for competitive tests like CAT, XAT and TISSNET will come knocking on your doors. But before you start wracking your brains over data sets and comprehensions, you must first do one thing: STRATEGISE!

Saranya Mukherjee
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