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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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.

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Do Not Micromanage Your Schedule, It Will Frustrate You | 99.78%ile, IIM C

Rajat Srivastava, joined IIM Calcutta this year. He graduated in 2017 from IIT Kharagpur after completing integrated Masters. He worked for ONGC for 27 months as a field officer, had 90.2% in Xth, 84.8% in XIIth, and a CGPA of 8.23 during his UG. He is also a CFA L2 candidate and was successful to score 184.52 in CAT with 99.78%ile ( VARC, 62.51, 98.69 | LRDI, 43.88, 97.14 | QA, 78.13, 99.85). Here is how Rajat’s journey to crack 99.78%ile looked like.

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Always Remember You Are Solving What A Fifteen-Year-Old Kid Is Able To Solve| Modit Singla; 99.25%ile

Modit Singla did his schooling from DAV Public School, Panipat. Having secured 90.0% in X and 95.2% in XII, he took the usual route and went on to pursue B.tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from DCRUST, Murthal. MBA was on the cards till CAT 2014 gave him a reality check. He later went on to clear SBI PO 2016 and worked there for more than 3 years. Six on-job transfers, 5 years, and a monotonous routine later, he mustered courage and attempted CAT again. 99.25 percentile is what he achieved after 70 hour weeks at work. He got an admit from IIM Lucknow and had converted MDI and IIFT. Presently, he is studying at IIM L. Here is how Modit went through this journey of achieving 99.25%ile with a 163.31 score | VA: 51.60, 96.03 | DILR 46.12, 97.92 | QA: 65.58, 99.29

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How I Made It To IIM Ahmedabad In My Second Attempt | CA Priyanka Saraf

It has been almost two years since I became a Chartered Accountant, but that is not where I wanted to stop. Therefore, even though I could not succeed in my interviews the first time around, I did not give up and managed to convert IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Calcutta calls in my second attempt.

Priyanka Saraf21 Jun 2020

5 Steps To Improve Your VA-RC Percentile | CAT 2021

Ask any CAT Topper and he or she will tell you that VA-RC is the most unpredictable section when it comes to scoring in CAT. In fact, many toppers have pointed out that the VA-RC section in CAT 2019 was particularly difficult. With answers being largely subjective, there's a lot of grey area when it comes to this section of the CAT. This section generally consists of 34 questions of 3 marks each. So how do you go about preparing for this section right now? How do you gain mastery over the reading comprehension section, which historically has the most questions and takes the most time? How do you stay away from negative marking? How do you pace yourself during this seemingly long and exhaustive section? If these are some questions bothering you, this article will provide the answers in this article.

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