Shreya Singal scored a 99.82%ile on CAT with a sectional breakup of VARC - 99.42 | LRDI - 99.37 | QA - 99. She's joined IIM Ahmedabad to pursue her MBA as part of the Class of 2023. In this video, she shares how she went about her preparation in the 3 months time she had before the exam.
If you’re wondering “What is CAT? What is the pattern? How should I start CAT preparation? What are the best books, resources, and coaching for CAT? How should I prepare from home? What timetable should I follow for CAT preparation? How do I prepare to score a 99%ile+?” To answer these questions and more for you, we invited two IIM Calcutta students and CAT Toppers.
Anshu is a mechanical engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur with 3 years of work experience across management consulting, strategy, and product management roles pre MBA. His last designation was that of a Product Lead at ShareChat where he was leading consumer experience and social-connect for the next billion vernacular Internet users. He was the board topper for the AP state board in class 12th with a 98.3% and scored CGPA 10 in class 10th and 7.3 in UG. Outside of work, his interests lie in dancing and UX design. In this interview, he shares his CAT preparation strategy and his advice to future aspirants. Read on!
CAT aspirants are some of the busiest candidates out there, occupied with tons of study material, limitless lectures and a multitude of mocks. In this hectic schedule, they often wonder how they may be able to enhance their profile. They ask themselves, "Is profile really that important? Should I only focus on CAT and ignore profile building activities? How can I devote time to profile-building and from where shall I find profile enhancing resources?"
Yash Mundhada is an Industrial Engineer. His initial schooling was from a vernacular medium however that did not deter him from taking up CAT and was able to score 92.17 percentile in the VA-RC section. CAT-20 was his 3rd attempt at CAT. During the final year of Engineering, he prepared well but ended up scoring around 48 percentile. The next attempts were with a regular 9 to 6 job. Finally, his hard work, perseverance, and dedication paid off and he was able to score a whopping 99.35 percentile. Let’s find out how he was able to score 99+ percentile alongside a full-time job.
Here are a few insightful snippets from the CAT 2020 journey of SPJIMR students along with their words of advice for CAT 2021 aspirants. While CAT is a daunting exam for a lot of students in India, trying to cram at the last minute is not the way to go about it. Most of the times students forget the basics because of their stress. To make the most of the time, your focused attention should now be on revisiting and strengthening what you have learnt, taking Mocks, identifying and improving upon your errors, and further strengthening your strong areas instead of starting anything new. It is not only your good CAT exam preparation but also the CAT test-taking strategy that helps to improve your CAT percentile. Time management is an essential ingredient to crack the CAT exam and make it to your desired B-School. Managing one's time includes balancing speed with accuracy, handling the pressure and uncertainty, and apt decision making.
Managing time is perhaps one of the most underrated points of concern for aspirants! Resources, coaching, and mocks steal the limelight. But let's be honest - if you're not managing your time well, you're probably not preparing well for CAT. With tons of questions to practice and comprehensions to read, it may be difficult to take a step back and consider how well and how much time you're investing into your preparation. To make it easier for you to deal with it, we've invited CAT 99+%ilers for a conversation with Oshin this Thursday 6 PM. Join us to ask your personal preparation related questions as we go live!
There are a lot of books out there and when you start preparing for your CAT, you seem to be confused about where to start from? Well, in this video, Keshav Kumar Singh talks about the list of recommended books that one can refer to during their CAT prep journey. Keshav who failed to clear CAT last year, has also referred to some of them and is continuing to use some of these books for his prep this year.
