CAT Preparation Tips: Quantitative Ability

How Ankit Gupta Scored 99+ Percentile In QA, And How You Can Too

The CAT 2020 exam is now just a month away. Now is the time that you need to start thinking about the strategy that you want to adopt for the actual exam on the 29th of November. How are you going to attempt the Quantitative Aptitude section? How will you maximise your score in this section? How will you adapt to the new CAT 2020 paper pattern? These are all questions you need to start finding solid answers to, and we're here to help you find them!

Team InsideIIM27 Oct 2020

From 55%ile In Mocks 3 Weeks Before CAT To 99.45%ile In CAT 2019 | Shirin Nizar, FMS '22

Shirin Nizar is a mechanical engineer, born and bred in the city of the 3C's Thalassery, Kerala. He did his 14 years of schooling and scored 9.6 in his X and 82.6% in XII. He also completed his 4 years of bachelor's from Thalassery with a CGPA of 7.41. A 2019 pass out, he didn't take up any job offers as he wanted to give his everything towards CAT because he knew this would be a life-changer for him. Since he realized that the potential would be massive, the experience and exposure from a top b-school would be immense, and so he gave a good 4 months to CAT and finally got 99.45%ile and calls from all the IIMs except B. And presently, Shirin is studying at FMS. Here is the entire journey of Shirin how he was able to get 99.45%ile(VARC, 77.55, 99.88%ile | DILR, 52.93, 99.15%ile | QA, 38.28, 92.74%ile|)in the CAT exam.

Team InsideIIM20 Oct 2020

Students Appearing For 3rd Or 4th Time Need To Work On Time And Stress Management- Atishaya Jain | IIM A, 99.84%ile

Atishaya Jain is presently studying at IIM A, the dream college for many MBA aspirants. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT Mandi, 2014-18) with a bachelor's in Mechanical engineering (8.79 GPA), he had scored 10 CGPA in SSC(class X CBSE, 2012) and 92.6% in HSC(class XII CBSE, 2014). Post-engineering, he worked for a few months as a sales officer in HPCL and later moved on to explore the educational sector where he worked as an IIT JEE maths faculty at an educational firm. Here is the entire journey of Atishaya during his CAT preparation and how he managed to score 189.43 with 99.84%ile [VARC: 50.48, 95.47 | DILR: 64.91, 99.86 | QA: 74.03, 99.76 ] in his first attempt.

Team InsideIIM15 Oct 2020

Consistency Is The Key Coupled With Commitment | How Mock Tests Helped Devesh Score 99.65%ile In CAT

Devesh Bansal is currently studying in IIM Kozhikode, he completed his graduation in Economics Hons from Kirori-Mal College, DU with a CGPA of 7.78. He scored 9.2 CGPA in his 10th standard and 96% in the 12th. With a work experience of 8 months in an emerging startup, he managed to score 177.87 marks with 99.65%ile ( VARC: 96.87%ile; DILR: 99.5%ile; QA: 99.6%ile). Here is the entire experience of Devesh from his first attempt with 95%ile to finally achieving 99.65%ile.

Team InsideIIM12 Oct 2020

"I Always Kept Small And Achievable Goals For Each Of My Next Mock" | Digvijay Singh, IIM Calcutta, 99.90%ile

Digvijay Singh, presently a student at IIM Calcutta, worked as a senior business analyst at Axis Bank worked for 30 months. He completed his mechanical engineering from BITS with a CGPA of 8.11, XII with 77.8%, and X with 9 CGPA. His CAT score is 196.72 with a 99.90%ile(A OS - 56.5 OP- 97.45 %ile DILR OS - 68.2 OP- 99.92 %ile QUANT OS - 71.98 OP- 99.67 %ile). As a working professional, Digvijay has shared some tips with us which helped him personally to ace the CAT exam in his first attempt.

Team InsideIIM11 Oct 2020

Things You Can Follow To Score 99+ Percentile In Quant

Less than two months are left for CAT 2020, and the recent pattern change notification by IIM Indore has created a havoc in the mind of all aspirants. Many of my friends and juniors who are preparing for CAT this year called me the next day the notification was out, and the first question was, “Already I am not scoring good in the quant section. What next?”. Well, my reply was simple and informative. I shared my approach with them and what helped me score a 99+ percentile in quant. Below are some suggestions you all can follow(engineers and non-engineers) and work on it for these two months.

Dhruv Aggarwal10 Oct 2020

Don't Get Too Attached To Mock Percentiles | IIM Bangalore, 99.87%ile, Charandeep Bagga

Charandeep Bagga is currently studying at IIM Bangalore. His 10th CGPA is 10 and 12th - 96.46%. He completed his Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur with 9.11 CGPA. He scored 99.87%ile in his cat with (VARC - 69/68.52, 99.39; DILR - 51/56.06, 99.45; QA - 69/67.89, 99.48). Here is how he did it.

Team InsideIIM03 Oct 2020

Cracking CAT Can Help You Overcome Any Deficiency In Your Past Acads/Work | IIM Ahmedabad, Divij Kishore Jain, 99.39%ile

Divij Kishore Jain is currently studying at IIM Ahmedabad( 2020-2022) He scored 9.8 GPA in his Xth, 94.8% (PCM with Eco) in XII, . Later he completed B.A. (Hons.) Economics, from CVS - DU with an 8.19 GPA. Here is the entire journey of Divij's CAT preparation and how it managed to score 99.39%ile in his first attempt.

Team InsideIIM29 Sept 2020