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Should You Quit Your Job To Prepare For CAT This Year? Perspective From A 99 Percentiler Who Quit His Job

Should You Quit Your Job To Prepare For CAT This Year? Perspective From A 99 Percentiler Who Quit His Job

Irrespective of where you stay or what you do, 2020 was an unusual year for everyone. I am no different. I was due to complete three years with my organization. Wanting to expand my career path and explore more opportunities, I began toying with the idea of doing an MBA just as the lockdown was imposed. Being a hotel management graduate, I knew that the preparation process would not be a bed of roses. To add to that, I had performed poorly in maths throughout my school life and was afraid of anything to do with numbers.

Debansu Mukhopadhyay
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“People Ignore Me But I Can Be The Game Changer” – Yours Truly, Verbal Section

“People Ignore Me But I Can Be The Game Changer” – Yours Truly, Verbal Section

The verbal section is usually taken very lightly. People tend to focus more on quants and DI & LR and think the verbal can be handled easily. But there is one thing which most of us forget. Verbal can’t get into your head in one day or even one month. It is a habit, it has to be made a habit. As I have always said, CAT is all about consistency and the Verbal section is a testament to that.

ANKITA GOOMER
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How A Hotelier With Weak Quant Cracked CAT 2020 | CAT 2021 Preparation Strategy For Non-Engineers

How A Hotelier With Weak Quant Cracked CAT 2020 | CAT 2021 Preparation Strategy For Non-Engineers

Here is a statistic for you: of the total number of aspirants who attempt the CAT exam, less than 4 percent end up getting admission to one of the twenty IIMs in the country. The acceptance rate reduces further when you look at only at IIMs ABCLIK, which implies that Harvard Business School has a greater acceptance rate than the top six IIMs. With such degree of competition, it doesn't help matters if you have been out of touch with quantitative problem solving for many years due to your non-engineering background. So does that make it impossible for non-engineers out of touch with quant to crack CAT? Absolutely not, and here is a shining example of it in the form of a hotel management graduate with no background in mathematics who cracked CAT 2020 and got shortlisted by top business schools, including IIM Kozhikode.

Team InsideIIM
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How I Got From 49%ile To 97%ile In QA || Ft. Ankita Goomer, IIM L'22

How I Got From 49%ile To 97%ile In QA || Ft. Ankita Goomer, IIM L'22

Being a commerce student, quants was my weakest point. I started my preparation in August 1st week and I had almost 4 months to prepare for CAT but since I was working, I had just weekends and the spare, 2 or 3 hours after working for 10-11 hours in the office. If you guys think that in mocks, your percentile is lower and when will it actually go up, just to give you a startling fact, I was getting around 49%ile in August, 60%ile till September. Then, around 80% till October Mid. It was only by November 1st week, that I started getting around 90%ile by November. So, how did I do it?

ANKITA GOOMER
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How To Prepare For CAT 2021 || Anuj Gupta, FMS Delhi'22

How To Prepare For CAT 2021 || Anuj Gupta, FMS Delhi'22

With around 7-8 months left for CAT’21, some of you would have already started aiming for it while some of you are still a few days distant from seeing that dream. And with every new beginning in our lives, with every new start, we are faced with a number of questions as to how to go about achieving the goal set.

Anuj Gupta
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