Managing Time Efficiently While Preparing For CAT 2020 | Aishwarya Nair, IIM B

If you already have a schedule and strategy in place, now might be a good time to analyze it. Ask yourself some hard questions.

• How closely have you followed the schedule so far?
• Are you currently in line with the preparation goals you had set for yourself?
• Is your performance in mock tests up to your expectations?

If you don’t believe your strategy to be working, you should not hesitate to modify it. Identify where you have succeeded and where you have lagged behind. Rework your schedule to include topics that you were supposed to cover earlier but couldn’t.

Introspection Is The Key

Introspection will help you discover breaks in your routine that you didn’t know existed. CAT is an intense test of aptitude, and the key to crack it is hours of practice. Try to combine your fragmented breaks throughout the day into one long break of 2-3 hours, so you get enough time for uninterrupted preparation. For example, if you realize that you get short 15-30 min breaks throughout the day, but your work stretches till late in the night, try pushing these breaks to the end of the day. Read newspapers when you travel to work, if you do, or while having breakfast before you start your work. Try to keep your weekends free from all work or college activities so that you can devote enough time to practice mock tests and analyze your performance.

Stay Motivated!

Year after year, CAT aspirants go through similar struggles of juggling preparation with their other work. Focus is essential in achieving this, but so is motivation. Don’t be too hard on yourself if you miss deadlines you set for yourself due to other commitments. Strive to make up for it within the next few days. Reward yourself for small successes, be it a great percentile in the last mock, or finally understanding a concept that had been bugging you for long. Above all, share stories with those in a similar situation as yours. No road will be too long with good company.

Happy CAT preparation to everyone!

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