With CAT 2020 less than 7 months away, many of you have started out with your preparation efforts to hit that 99th percentile mark and make it to your dream business schools. But your preparation is missing one crucial element that can directly impact how you fare in CAT 2020. Here's one important step that thousands of aspirants make the mistake of skipping that you must not skip at any cost.
In today's sectional test, we bring to you the second Quantitative Aptitude (QA) Sectional Test as a part of InsideIIM's CAT 2020 Weekly Tests. There are 34 questions in this test. You need to either choose the correct option from the four options given or type in your answer. Every correct answer will fetch you 3 points, while every incorrect attempt will fetch you -1(TITA questions don't have any negative marking).
The Quantitative Ability (QA) section of the CAT exam is one that many test-takers have struggled with in the past; engineers and non-engineers alike. For some non-engineers this section is their Achilles's heel and can bring down their overall CAT percentile, especially when nightmares like CAT 2018 present themselves.
Shubham Agrawal scored 62.35/100 in Quantitative Aptitude in CAT 2019 to score the coveted percentile of 99.42 in the section. His overall percentile was 97.28 with a score of 133.67/300 with 97.28 percentile in DI-LR and 82.13 in VARC. He is an engineer and has worked with TCS for 8 months post that. He has received calls from all CAP IIMs, NITIE, MDI Gurgaon and XLRI.
A year ago, I was one among the numerous aspirants of Common Admission Test - CAT as we popularly know it. Now, I have final admits from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Calcutta for their PGP class of 2017-2019. This has been a great journey for me, filled with many ups and downs. It's an experience that I would like to share with my fellow aspirants. I'd be extremely satisfied to know if the strategies that had worked for me, work for you as well.
Rahul is a current student at FMS Delhi. He has cracked CAT16 with 100%ile in the quant section. He completed his engineering in 2017 then worked for two years in the education industry. In this article, Rahul will tell us how to master the quant section.
Rishi Mittal, CAT 2019 100 percentiler with 98.76 percentile in VARC, 100 percentile in DILR and 99.99 percentile in QA, has scored the perfect score to receive calls from everyone’s dream b-schools IIM A, B, C, L, K, I, S, CAP and FMS Delhi. A GEM from NIT Surat, his academic profile is as follows-:
Just a scant few days to go before CAT is upon you. It’s normal to have doubts and queries. More significantly, you may also be suffering from self-doubt. That’s okay. Because those who came before you suffered from CAT trauma too! Having said that, how do you strategise and plan if you have one weaker section as compared to the others? Quite a few students, irrespective of their backgrounds, find quant to be tough. Others struggle with LRDI. Many feel that the VARC section is a challenge. So how do you prepare when one section could be your Achilles Heel? In this article, we share some strategies used by students when one section is found to be weaker. Find out how you can win over your weaknesses in this article.
