How To Crack Different Sections In CAT - Tips By A Former Aspirant
There is no one fit size for all the CAT Aspirants. It is based on the individual’s strengths, weakness. Following are the tips, which may be useful for the Aspirants.
There is no one fit size for all the CAT Aspirants. It is based on the individual’s strengths, weakness. Following are the tips, which may be useful for the Aspirants.
I have always been a huge fan of the InsideIIM portal as it has often proved extremely useful in giving me fresh insights into the world of b-schools. However, the limited time I have spent on various CAT prep portals and the manner in which the discussions and comments are portrayed had, at one point of time, made me believe that those who were fortunate enough to have made it to the top b-schools in the country are nothing less than demigods while the rest of us are mere mortals who aspire to but are seldom able to attain said demigod status. I am here to tell you that top b-schools are not a distant dream but an attainable reality and that the right attitude and technique can at the very least, I hope, get you a foot in the door.
In my previous post on cracking Reading Comprehension of VA-RC section, I had mentioned that all three sections of CAT check your application of logic. From VA-RC to QA, every single question requires you to carefully deliberate on what is being asked in the question and what approach it requires.
This article is first in a series of articles to help aspirants start their CAT preparation
How was your experience of CAT, since the pattern changed, the calculator was introduced?
Deciphering the tips and tricks to gain in an upper hand in CAT is the talk of the town. With the Common Admission Test just being less than a few weeks away, numerous mentors, teachers, peers, and batchmates will present their respective takes and opinions on how to crack the exam with flying colours. Going through the same phase a year back, I will present near you my views on it.
I know that the CAT 2017 is right around the corner and you are very busy preparing for it (well, best of luck for that!), but there is something that I want to tell you. And I hope, you'll listen (don't worry, it's going to be a small post).
Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of queries from my friends pertinent to the VA section of CAT about which they (especially the engineers) are highly paranoid and consider it as an obstacle in their crusade of acing CAT ’17. I’ve personally come across plenty of such cases where people who had scored 99+ percentile in both QA and DI/LR witnessed a ridiculous plunge in their VA percentile to as low as 70!
There is no one fit size for all the CAT Aspirants. It is based on the individual’s strengths, weakness. Following are the tips, which may be useful for the Aspirants.
I have always been a huge fan of the InsideIIM portal as it has often proved extremely useful in giving me fresh insights into the world of b-schools. However, the limited time I have spent on various CAT prep portals and the manner in which the discussions and comments are portrayed had, at one point of time, made me believe that those who were fortunate enough to have made it to the top b-schools in the country are nothing less than demigods while the rest of us are mere mortals who aspire to but are seldom able to attain said demigod status. I am here to tell you that top b-schools are not a distant dream but an attainable reality and that the right attitude and technique can at the very least, I hope, get you a foot in the door.
In my previous post on cracking Reading Comprehension of VA-RC section, I had mentioned that all three sections of CAT check your application of logic. From VA-RC to QA, every single question requires you to carefully deliberate on what is being asked in the question and what approach it requires.
This article is first in a series of articles to help aspirants start their CAT preparation
How was your experience of CAT, since the pattern changed, the calculator was introduced?
Deciphering the tips and tricks to gain in an upper hand in CAT is the talk of the town. With the Common Admission Test just being less than a few weeks away, numerous mentors, teachers, peers, and batchmates will present their respective takes and opinions on how to crack the exam with flying colours. Going through the same phase a year back, I will present near you my views on it.
I know that the CAT 2017 is right around the corner and you are very busy preparing for it (well, best of luck for that!), but there is something that I want to tell you. And I hope, you'll listen (don't worry, it's going to be a small post).
Lately, I’ve been receiving a lot of queries from my friends pertinent to the VA section of CAT about which they (especially the engineers) are highly paranoid and consider it as an obstacle in their crusade of acing CAT ’17. I’ve personally come across plenty of such cases where people who had scored 99+ percentile in both QA and DI/LR witnessed a ridiculous plunge in their VA percentile to as low as 70!