I was progressing quite quickly in the organisation and the workload also kept increasing with each day. To make it worse, the universe conspired to make me work in shifts. I was working in a different shift every other week. Things started getting complicated and I could not find much time to study. However, I realised that whatever theoretical knowledge I had to acquire, I had acquired it while preparing for the previous two attempts. This time I focused only on mocks. I took a mock, reviewed it thoroughly and then took another one. My average percentile score during the mocks was around 82 percentile. I did nothing else for preparation. Finally, the day arrived and I took the CAT in 2016. I scored a 98.92 overall with a 99.78 percentile in DI/LR. I took the XAT in 2017 and scored a 98.5 percentile overall with a 99.226 in decision-making. Surprised?
With many failures, you gain experience! After failing twice in the tests and having analysed the results of the previous few years, I always knew my score of 82 percentile in the mocks was good enough. The key piece of information that I always kept at the back of my mind was that by the time D-day arrives, a majority of the test takers give up! I leveraged this fact and did not give up. Whatever you may be scoring in your mocks, there is a high probability that you will end up scoring higher in the actual test. It is only about maximising it as much as you can and a lot of it depends on your attitude on D-day. CAT/XAT are more about your test-taking strategies rather than formulas and methods. If this is your last attempt at CAT/XAT or any other management entrance exam, just remember that you probably know everything that you could ever know in terms of the syllabus, you just need to hang in there and develop your best strategy to take the test.
All the best for your preparations!
Comments
Ishira Munshi
A go getter......
Inspirational stuff! Thank you
29 Sep 2017, 11.21 AM
amit kumar
How many full mocks did you gave and sectional mocks?
29 Sep 2017, 11.23 AM
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Aroon Koshy
Aroon Koshy is a Human Resource Management student at XLRI from the batch of 2017-19. He enjoys writing and is a sports enthusiast. The views expressed in this story are personal.
30-35
29 Sep 2017, 04.39 PM |
Akhil Mittal
Please share some more one liners
29 Sep 2017, 11.25 AM
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Aroon Koshy
Aroon Koshy is a Human Resource Management student at XLRI from the batch of 2017-19. He enjoys writing and is a sports enthusiast. The views expressed in this story are personal.
“When you are wasting your time, someone is working hard at the same time, and the day you compete with that person, you will lose.” "I don't get lucky, I make my own luck" - Harvey Specter (Suits)
29 Sep 2017, 07.08 PM |
ANAMIKA KASHYAP
Can you please describe your Test taking strategy??
1 Oct 2017, 02.40 PM
Priya Singh
How did you manage time during last 2 month of CAT?
2 Oct 2017, 01.28 AM
Ashwini Maharana
how did u prepare ??
2 Oct 2017, 02.44 PM
venkatbhargav gattupalli
yo
Hi, which test series to rely on and what if i plan to take only mocks ? till the dday by analysing it .Will it be a good startegy ??
2 Oct 2017, 04.34 PM
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Aroon Koshy
Aroon Koshy is a Human Resource Management student at XLRI from the batch of 2017-19. He enjoys writing and is a sports enthusiast. The views expressed in this story are personal.
Yes, its a good strategy. I took the TIME series of mocks. I found it good.
17 Jun 2018, 12.46 PM |
Kirti Bhatnagar
Kirti is a student in NMIMS HR (2020-2022). She completed her graduation(BBA-Marketing) from NMIMS University in 2019. She loves to do social work and have been part of a couple for NGOs. She is described as a big foodie, always up for some adventure and a fun-loving person by her friends.
Can you please share how did you prepare for DI/LR?
17 Jun 2018, 12.39 PM
srilatha vodnala
I could study this till my D-day
8 Jun 2019, 09.57 AM
Keyur Shah
BE Mechanical Engineer 2018 pass out and doing job since March'18 till today
IMPRESSIVE......SHARE UR PREP STRATEGIES ALSO
8 Sep 2019, 10.22 AM
Mahesh Konchada
Hi bro i am preparing for cat since last 5 months but now I am scoring low marks in mocks around 60 marks totally devastated please suggest some insights
8 Sep 2019, 01.35 PM
Hemanth Kumar
Wow... I just randomly stumbled upon this. Absolute gold stuff!
26 Jun 2022, 04.54 PM