The last month to the CAT is extremely crucial. Hopefully, by this time you have completed all the texts you wanted to solve, have everything you wanted to memorize firmly etched in your mind because bhai, ab Dilli door nahi. It is the last mile to CAT, and that last mile requires the most effort. Here are five tips to survive this month:
When you turn round the corner and find yourself facing a wall which appears to be a dead end, you will eventually find a small by-lane which is a shortcut to a bigger and a better route. This, when told to me by one of my professors just fell on deaf ears. However, I could truly realise the potency of those words only when I experienced the situation.
Made a last minute decision to write CAT and not sure how to proceed? Well.. Don't worry... The Mock exams will rescue you!
1. START: When should we start taking Mock CAT?
Travelling with my family, I remember my parents asking us mental maths questions and we competing to be the first to get the correct answer. Questions involving figuring out how much money to give and how much change you would get back, calculating the price for a quarter or a half when the price for a kg was quoted, estimating the area of a room and other logical reasoning questions. Flair for numbers thus developed in me right from childhood.
CAT attempts were getting tougher and tougher for me, once I started with my professional career as one gets to spend very less time to prepare and competition increases each year. Weekends were the only time when I really used to prepare and if at all sometime during the weekday (though it was very rare) .The quant section as it is presumed to be engineer’s kingdom was definitely a challenging one for me. So, my preparation strategy was kind of skewed to quant more but definitely not completely neglecting the verbal and LR DI section because I have had times during my mocks when I scored poorly in my strong area i.e. verbal. So, I made it a point to give all sections its due attention. Leave aside everything, yes! The feeling is exceptional when you bell the CAT and for me the feeling was a level higher because it came when it was least expected. Patience pays off – the first lesson learnt !
Growth rate, average growth rate, CAGR – these are three terms that appear frequently in exams. I am going to examine each of this with an example. Let us say company XYZ has revenues in 5 consecutive years as follows
The last month to the CAT is extremely crucial. Hopefully, by this time you have completed all the texts you wanted to solve, have everything you wanted to memorize firmly etched in your mind because bhai, ab Dilli door nahi. It is the last mile to CAT, and that last mile requires the most effort. Here are five tips to survive this month:
When you turn round the corner and find yourself facing a wall which appears to be a dead end, you will eventually find a small by-lane which is a shortcut to a bigger and a better route. This, when told to me by one of my professors just fell on deaf ears. However, I could truly realise the potency of those words only when I experienced the situation.
Made a last minute decision to write CAT and not sure how to proceed? Well.. Don't worry... The Mock exams will rescue you!
1. START: When should we start taking Mock CAT?
Travelling with my family, I remember my parents asking us mental maths questions and we competing to be the first to get the correct answer. Questions involving figuring out how much money to give and how much change you would get back, calculating the price for a quarter or a half when the price for a kg was quoted, estimating the area of a room and other logical reasoning questions. Flair for numbers thus developed in me right from childhood.
CAT attempts were getting tougher and tougher for me, once I started with my professional career as one gets to spend very less time to prepare and competition increases each year. Weekends were the only time when I really used to prepare and if at all sometime during the weekday (though it was very rare) .The quant section as it is presumed to be engineer’s kingdom was definitely a challenging one for me. So, my preparation strategy was kind of skewed to quant more but definitely not completely neglecting the verbal and LR DI section because I have had times during my mocks when I scored poorly in my strong area i.e. verbal. So, I made it a point to give all sections its due attention. Leave aside everything, yes! The feeling is exceptional when you bell the CAT and for me the feeling was a level higher because it came when it was least expected. Patience pays off – the first lesson learnt !
Growth rate, average growth rate, CAGR – these are three terms that appear frequently in exams. I am going to examine each of this with an example. Let us say company XYZ has revenues in 5 consecutive years as follows
