As said by Aristotle “Well begun is half done”. The D-Day, which would test your months of hard work and determination, is now at an arm’s length. Whenever you start targeting something, you first visualise the success you will get after hitting that target; then you start building focus on that target and then try to shape up your efforts so that you can achieve that target.
There are students who have been preparing for CAT for 2 years and there are few who just started a few months before the exam. So is there any such optimum time with regards to preparation for the CAT exam which will help one Bell the CAT? The answer is there is no such optimum time. There are students who prepare for 2 years and crack CAT, and also there are ones who start preparing for CAT a few months before the exam and crack the CAT. Even though different aspirants have a different pace of preparation, the secret to success lies in the simple fact that they know their strengths better than their weaknesses. While this may sound contrary to popular belief, but the fact of the matter is , CAT being an exam of relative marking and ranking, it all comes down to who plays their cards well with what they have and not with what they wished they had.
Abhishek K. is currently in IIM Kozhikode. He scored 99.8 %ile in 2015 in his 1st attempt. He is a fresher with a degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar.
Hello Future MBAs,
Sajal Gupta graduated in B.Sc. Maths(H) from Deshbandhu College, Delhi University. He scored 99.26 percentile in CAT 2015. He was born and brought up in Mathura. He comes from a middle-class business family. He has interned in ISKCON organisation. He has a keen interest in following Indian politics and watching documentaries.
Time is the most limited resource and it is rightly said that if you cannot manage time, you cannot manage anything! With just 24 hours a day and merely 4 more days to go for the actual test –CAT, it becomes important that you balance your time between revisions, last minute mock tests and self-motivation.
A week or so left to change your stars. This is it. All the hard work you've put in over the past few months or years boils down to these three hours. Everything goes according to plan and there's no stopping you. You falter at the last lap and it gets very difficult to get back up and actually get going again. You must have gone through numerous text books and numerous mock tests by now and you've a clear idea of where you stand. These last few days are for you to relax and contemplate on the journey which started about a year back. No pressure now. The work is all done. Just a few basic things about the three sections which will definitely help you pull through.
Here we bring you CAT Topper, IIM Udaipur, Prateek Samantaray. Prateek is a B.Tech Graduate from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Odisha, Burla. His CAT percentile was 99.42 ( VA-99.98, QA-96.91, LR-93.78).
As said by Aristotle “Well begun is half done”. The D-Day, which would test your months of hard work and determination, is now at an arm’s length. Whenever you start targeting something, you first visualise the success you will get after hitting that target; then you start building focus on that target and then try to shape up your efforts so that you can achieve that target.
There are students who have been preparing for CAT for 2 years and there are few who just started a few months before the exam. So is there any such optimum time with regards to preparation for the CAT exam which will help one Bell the CAT? The answer is there is no such optimum time. There are students who prepare for 2 years and crack CAT, and also there are ones who start preparing for CAT a few months before the exam and crack the CAT. Even though different aspirants have a different pace of preparation, the secret to success lies in the simple fact that they know their strengths better than their weaknesses. While this may sound contrary to popular belief, but the fact of the matter is , CAT being an exam of relative marking and ranking, it all comes down to who plays their cards well with what they have and not with what they wished they had.
Abhishek K. is currently in IIM Kozhikode. He scored 99.8 %ile in 2015 in his 1st attempt. He is a fresher with a degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar.
Hello Future MBAs,
Sajal Gupta graduated in B.Sc. Maths(H) from Deshbandhu College, Delhi University. He scored 99.26 percentile in CAT 2015. He was born and brought up in Mathura. He comes from a middle-class business family. He has interned in ISKCON organisation. He has a keen interest in following Indian politics and watching documentaries.
Time is the most limited resource and it is rightly said that if you cannot manage time, you cannot manage anything! With just 24 hours a day and merely 4 more days to go for the actual test –CAT, it becomes important that you balance your time between revisions, last minute mock tests and self-motivation.
A week or so left to change your stars. This is it. All the hard work you've put in over the past few months or years boils down to these three hours. Everything goes according to plan and there's no stopping you. You falter at the last lap and it gets very difficult to get back up and actually get going again. You must have gone through numerous text books and numerous mock tests by now and you've a clear idea of where you stand. These last few days are for you to relax and contemplate on the journey which started about a year back. No pressure now. The work is all done. Just a few basic things about the three sections which will definitely help you pull through.
Here we bring you CAT Topper, IIM Udaipur, Prateek Samantaray. Prateek is a B.Tech Graduate from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Odisha, Burla. His CAT percentile was 99.42 ( VA-99.98, QA-96.91, LR-93.78).
