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.
With less than a month to go, every CAT aspirant will be on their toes. I remember that in the last month, I was in a quandary that should I learn more words like quandary or practice more probability problems, which was like kryptonite to my superman, or focus on solving the dreadful DILR problems. And apart from the subject-specific preparation, there was newspaper reading, full mock tests, my job, and whatnot. I was overwhelmed with so much to do in such a tiny amount of time. Looking back in hindsight, I think I took the correct steps and scored well finally (99.63%ile). Let me share what I did and what you can do in the last few days.
Firstly I’ll begin with a myth buster. Most people think that CAT quants is only for engineers. This isn’t true at all. Agreed that it is a tough nut to crack but it is certainly possible to do so provided that you stick to a dedicated and structured approach.
The syllabus for the Quantitative Aptitude section in CAT might seem vast at first, and quite daunting especially for those from a non-engineering background. With the exception of CAT 2018, this section has been easy to moderate in terms of difficulty. And there is no doubt that this section is a major contributor to your overall percentile.
