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While Preparing For CAT It's Important To Have A Backup, Ft. Shubhang G. 99.69%iler, IIM B

While Preparing For CAT It's Important To Have A Backup, Ft. Shubhang G. 99.69%iler, IIM B

Shubhang Gopal is a Computer Science & IT Engineer from Delhi Technological University. After his BTech, Shubhang wanted to pursue an MBA due to his inclination in Business orientated subjects and hence, decided to write CAT and GMAT. In this video, Shubhang shares his story of cracking CAT & GMAT simultaneously and making it to ISB & IIM Bangalore. He shares his insights on why it's important to have a backup while preparing for CAT and how having a great GMAT score in his basket helped him avoid the pressure which might get developed due to the uncertainty which surrounds CAT. Having scored a 99.69%ile in CAT 2021, Shubhang shares his preparation journey, section-wise strategy, and final D-day experience. For anyone who's struggling with any particular section, the insights from this video will help you with many tips to improve your performance.

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From 69%ile In CAT 2020 To 99.7%ile In CAT 2021 - CAT Prep Tips By Sai Rajesh Donkana, IIM B

From 69%ile In CAT 2020 To 99.7%ile In CAT 2021 - CAT Prep Tips By Sai Rajesh Donkana, IIM B

Sai Rajesh Donkana, from the 'City of Destiny' Visakhapatnam, managed to go from 69% in CAT 2020 to 99.70% in CAT 2021 with diligent and disciplined effort. After finishing his undergraduate studies at NIT Trichy in 2019, he went on to work at Citi as an Application Developer. A 10-pointer in his 10th grade and scoring 96.7% in his 12th grade, Rajesh finished his Bachelor's with an 8.2 CGPA. He looks forward to learning more about finance and the scaling of businesses over his time at IIMB. He had scored a 69&ile in his first CAT attempt, and went on to score 99.7%ile on CAT 2021. Read on to know how he made it happen!

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What Should You Do To Avoid Stress During Your CAT Prep Journey?, Ft. Milana P. IIM A' 24 | CCC

What Should You Do To Avoid Stress During Your CAT Prep Journey?, Ft. Milana P. IIM A' 24 | CCC

The CAT prep journey is a roller coaster ride for all aspirants. Low mock scores, isolation, continuous rigor, uncertainties, competition, etc., all of this just adds up to the stress and has definite implications on the prep. As a serious aspirant, you cannot afford to let these emotions affect you for a very long time as you need to work on your weaknesses continuously. In this video, Milana Prakash as part of Catalogue To Cracking The CAT- CCC shares a detailed approach for different types of students to keep their spirits high throughout.

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How To Optimize Your CAT Preparation With 100 Days To Go For The D-DAY

How To Optimize Your CAT Preparation With 100 Days To Go For The D-DAY

CAT notification is out. Mocks and test series sales are on a rise. Stress levels are up. Confidence down. Self-doubt up. A prevalent scenario, you might be able to see around you or most probably with yourself as well. With the release of CAT notification, aspirants start counting the days left. With the passage of each day, no matter the amount of efforts, it always seems less. Studying multiple hours a day, trying to cover the concepts of quants and LRDI, and forgetting them the very next day, this is something you must have experienced and might still be experiencing. You just gave a 2 hour long mock and are anxiously waiting for the report, and turns out you have scored a very low percentile, driving down your whole motivation and enthusiasm of giving CAT, and thoughts of not giving CAT popping up soon after because of self-doubt. This is something, almost every CAT aspirant goes through. So what can one do in such a crisis-like situation? Well here are some of the suggestions or tips to follow during this time:

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Tips & Tricks To Solve Odd-One-Out Question In Less Time, Ft. Ishbani Bhatia, 99.85%iler | VARC Acer

Tips & Tricks To Solve Odd-One-Out Question In Less Time, Ft. Ishbani Bhatia, 99.85%iler | VARC Acer

Odd-One-Out questions is a very important part of the VA section. These are asked in the CAT exam as Type-In-The-Answer type questions, where there is no negative marking and correctly answering these questions can give a huge jump to your overall VARC score. Aspirants generally find it very tricky to manage the difficulty level of these questions and figure out the common theme across sentences. Hence, to help you with the same, in this video lecture of VARC Acer, Ishbani Bhatia, FMS' 23 (CAT' 20 98.78%iler, VARC 99.85%iler) teaches how to solve odd one out questions correctly in the CAT exam.

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How Should You Analyse Mock Tests To Get A 99%ile?| Sample Mock Analysis Excel Sheet | CAT 2022 Prep

How Should You Analyse Mock Tests To Get A 99%ile?| Sample Mock Analysis Excel Sheet | CAT 2022 Prep

We are now in the last leg of preparation for CAT 2022. This is the time when aspirants are focussed on taking mock tests and improving their scores. But just taking mocks won't do the trick unless you take time to analyze it in detail and then strategize how to improve! To help you with this, in this video we have covered the 7 Steps You Must Follow For Mock Analysis in detail. We have also covered things to remember while analyzing the different sections in a mock.

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"From An ICU To Scoring 99.83%ile In CAT" - How Shashwat Made It To IIM Calcutta Against All Odds

"From An ICU To Scoring 99.83%ile In CAT" - How Shashwat Made It To IIM Calcutta Against All Odds

Shashwat Awasthi is joining IIM Calcutta for their MBA batch of 2022-24. He is born and brought up in Lucknow and has done is 10th with 94.83% in ICSE and 95.50% in ISC from City Montessori School, Lucknow. He is a fresher and completed this Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Raipur with a grade of 96.70%. He made it to IIM C in his maiden attempt. In this article, he has shared his preparation strategy, and how he went against all odds to make it to IIM Calcutta - from being in ICU due to COVID-19 and then getting dengue two weeks prior to CAT 2021. Read on to know his inspiring story!

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"How I Scored 99.83%ile On My Third CAT Attempt” - Anirban Pal, IIM Indore Co'24

"How I Scored 99.83%ile On My Third CAT Attempt” - Anirban Pal, IIM Indore Co'24

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale. From a distant desire to pursue an MBA somewhere in the future, to make it to one of the top B-Schools in India, Anirban’s journey has been nothing short of unrelenting hard work, bits, and pieces of goof ups in between, being completely overwhelmed by the exam in the first attempt to calming down himself and acing CAT 2021 with a 99.83 percentile. But what has been the most remarkable feature was his unyielding belief in himself to do well, even when most of those around him had either lost faith in them or had become highly sceptical about his dream after his not-so-successful first two attempts. On top of that, Anirban has also secured a job in the Ministry of Home Affairs alongside his CAT preparation and a highly hectic IT Job. Anirban believes that good preparation can help you ace several exams and, in this write-up, he tells us about his journey.

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