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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

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

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

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

“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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How To Attempt The Tough RC Questions Of CAT 2019? | VARC ACER | CAT VARC

The VARC section of CAT 2019 is considered to be one of the toughest to date as it was a turning point in the way CAT sets questions. The way to crack these RCs is still the same, i.e. relying on the main idea but to do that students are required to draw many implicit inferences to solve the questions. In this episode of VARC Acer, Devesh Tripathi, (IIM L Alum, Deloitte Consultant) teaches how to approach these dense RCs from CAT 2019 and draw inferences. Our video series, VARC Acer: A Comprehensive Guide To Ace VARC, is designed with the intent to enhance your VARC skills.

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CAT 2022 Registration - Mistakes To Avoid While Filling Out The CAT Form

CAT 2022 registration form is finally out and the exam would be conducted on the 27th of November. In this video, we have discussed the important documents required for registration, the registration process and also the common mistakes to be avoided while filling out the CAT form. Make sure you go through the video in detail and fill up the form before the last date i.e. 14th September. If you have any queries, please drop them in the comments. We'll get back to you with a solution.

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CAT 2021 DILR (Slot 1) - Solved | Detailed Solutions & Strategy | Ft. Keshav K., 99.95%iler

With CAT 2022 just 4 months away, aspirants are looking for the best strategies to fine-tune mock taking and what better than learning the same from a 99.9+%iler! To help you with this, in this video Keshav Kumar (CAT'21- 99.95%ile, IIFT- 100%ile, IIM Calcutta) solves CAT 2021 DILR (Slot 1) and shares what goes on in his mind while taking the test. It is advised that aspirants watch the session thoroughly and pick strategies, tricks and hacks to improve their performance in CAT 2022.

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