"Mock"ing Your Way Through CAT By Rinku Stephen - IIM Bangalore
Made a last minute decision to write CAT and not sure how to proceed? Well.. Don't worry... The Mock exams will rescue you!
Made a last minute decision to write CAT and not sure how to proceed? Well.. Don't worry... The Mock exams will rescue you!
'Wait! Wait! Wait! First think and then act' - my father used to tell me always as i was an impatient person. Before starting my boring story, i want to tell you about myself. My name is Sahil Jain and I am a chemical engineer, I worked for Samsung Engineering for 12 months. I was a very boring person as my graduation friends thought about me because I was teetotaler in my graduation.
1. START: When should we start taking Mock CAT?
Travelling with my family, I remember my parents asking us mental maths questions and we competing to be the first to get the correct answer. Questions involving figuring out how much money to give and how much change you would get back, calculating the price for a quarter or a half when the price for a kg was quoted, estimating the area of a room and other logical reasoning questions. Flair for numbers thus developed in me right from childhood.
CAT attempts were getting tougher and tougher for me, once I started with my professional career as one gets to spend very less time to prepare and competition increases each year. Weekends were the only time when I really used to prepare and if at all sometime during the weekday (though it was very rare) .The quant section as it is presumed to be engineer’s kingdom was definitely a challenging one for me. So, my preparation strategy was kind of skewed to quant more but definitely not completely neglecting the verbal and LR DI section because I have had times during my mocks when I scored poorly in my strong area i.e. verbal. So, I made it a point to give all sections its due attention. Leave aside everything, yes! The feeling is exceptional when you bell the CAT and for me the feeling was a level higher because it came when it was least expected. Patience pays off – the first lesson learnt !
How does it feel to be one of the few non-engineers at TISS?
What made you decide to take the MBA leap?
You see them roaming around in the campus and they seem to fit in so well with the normal junta. But wait until you hear their stories and you realize that they are the ones bringing in the real diversity to the campus.