How to approach tests? What to look while writing mocks?
VARC – In this section, once you have done with basics, start writing mocks. There are generally two types of aspirants, one with good accuracy other with average accuracy. For aspirants with average accuracy, if you already have tried general techniques and are not able to increase your accuracy, then there is only one way left to improve your marks is to increase your attempts slowly with the number of mocks.
DILR- This is one section that has been very difficult for aspirants in recent years. For this section, the selection is the key. Put starting 5-8 minutes in deciding two easiest sets that you are going to attempt immediately and two sets that you will do at last only if you have time. It means you need to arrange sets in increasing order of its difficulty level. this can master only by giving a lot of mocks.
QA-There are various strategies to attempt this section. The most effective, as per my opinion, is the divide and conquer approach. In this, you divide one hour into 6 parts of 10minutes each, and in this, you start from the first question and visit a pair of 6 questions in every 10 minutes segment. This will save your time that wastes in the ABC approach in the shuffle between questions. Implementing this approach in upcoming sectional and full-length mocks will be very effective once you get accustomed to it.
How many mocks one needs to write on average to get the overall benefit of it, and how many test series one needs to subscribe to?
The number of mocks depends on how much time you have for your preparation. If you are doing along with preparation. I would recommend you take two national level mock series, whereas if you hav not taken full course and partially preparing for CAT, take 3 test series. You need to write at least serious 30+ mocks, and you should not get surprised that almost every 99+ percentile writes on an average of 55+ mocks.
Any other wisdom?
Most important things don't get demotivated by bad marks in mocks, keep improving by learning new things and revising what you learned earlier. Understand the mocks' concept, they are meant to be for learning, revising, and improving your aptitude skills. The D-day is going to be way different from mocks, some people perform better under exam pressure and some under-perform, you have to be the first one.
And last but one least, Don't ask for advice from anyone out there. Because everyone will share their own experience what they have, so if you want a great percentile in the first attempt, take advice only from persons who had done this in their first attempt. Learn from other's failure, don't repeat them.
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