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'Mock Tests Is The Key To Crack CAT' - IIM Bangalore Student

'Mock Tests Is The Key To Crack CAT' - IIM Bangalore Student

As they say “It’s not the destination but the journey that counts”. And now as I stop to step into one of the important landing places of my life, IIM B, I sit and reminisce the journey to this place. The ride has started 6 months prior to the CAT exam. The distance was long and the terrain difficult but the focus was clear, and the destination decided. I did hit some speed breakers and reach some road blocks but was undeterred. The first few months were stormy as I had to battle to strike the balance between work and preparation. There were sleepless nights and stressful days. There were times when I hit low trying to explore new ways, paths beyond the boundaries and was left completely astray.  But I was motivated to the core to not give up. I fueled my engine with the confidence that “I Can and I Will”, no matter how many times I fall.

beulah magi
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A Foolproof Strategy To Crack The CAT

A Foolproof Strategy To Crack The CAT

The month of the August has just started and CAT is just 4 months away from now. So it is the time to accelerate your CAT preparation and improve your skills and knowledge for those 3 hours for which you prepared for last 1 or 2 years. In January 2018, when the result of the CAT will be published the thing which will most matter is the performance of those 3 hours, not the effort you gave for the last few years. So failing at those 3 hours means that you have to wait for another 1 year to get your dream.

Saurav Sarkar
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Self Belief - The Key Ingredient To Cracking CAT

Self Belief - The Key Ingredient To Cracking CAT

It was the afternoon slot. I had reached Pune and the city was under the spell of the afternoon siesta. I was just in time to have lunch and go for the test. It was 4th December – my best friend’s birthday. And (unfortunately) I had my CAT Exam. I had not been quite serious about it. I had secured a PPO at Siemens and was giving CAT just as an experience. All peers in my engineering college had joined a class or two or some of the test series. I had done nothing. Just one day before I had solved a mock test paper on the official CAT website and that was it. I took a printout of the hall ticket, booked a bus ticket for Pune, went to watch “El Clasico” at my friend’s house, came home and slept peacefully.

Chetan Jogi
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How I Got Into An IIM Without Any CAT Preparation - Parul Gupta's Journey To IIM Indore

How I Got Into An IIM Without Any CAT Preparation - Parul Gupta's Journey To IIM Indore

I’m sure, now that the date of CAT 2017 is out, the race to the finish line has already begun. Everyone has started gearing up for the D-Day. All sleeping beauties have been suddenly jolted out from their stupor as they realised that preparation time now has started its own countdown. Did this happen with me? Yes, it definitely did. Was I successful in getting calls? No, I wasn’t. Then how did I get to IIM Indore?

Parul Gupta
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How Should A Final Year Engineering Student Manage Time For CAT Preparation And Campus Placement?

How Should A Final Year Engineering Student Manage Time For CAT Preparation And Campus Placement?

Last year I was in NIT Durgapur and the campus placement started at the month of July. There were many good companies that came to our campus for recruiting. All the students tried their best to get into those companies so the competition was very tough among the students. Also, there were some students who have another dilemma either they should prepare for Campus Placement or they should prepare for CAT.

Saurav Sarkar
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4 Ways To Ace The VA Section – Tips From A 99.67 Percentiler In VA - CAT

4 Ways To Ace The VA Section – Tips From A 99.67 Percentiler In VA - CAT

Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of queries from my friends pertinent to the VA section of CAT about which they (especially the engineers) are highly paranoid and consider it as an obstacle in their crusade of acing CAT ’17. I’ve personally come across plenty of such cases where people who had scored 99+ percentile in both QA and DI/LR witnessed a ridiculous plunge in their VA percentile to as low as 70!

Abhinav Bansal
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