[HopeForBest]

Originally Posted by linkinpool123

guyz....lots of people say lots of things!! its easier sid than done!!..i've been working for las t 1 n 1/2 years.preparing for CAT.but like everyone facing the same old problem with no answer (no fulproof answer ): When to study??
i think people like me who works for s/w industry faces this very much..as we know when to come to office but dont know when we'll be leaving the office..

Guyz...i think what we can do best is to take out some time during office hour for ourself and study in office...instead of coming back to room(after coming very few people has the energy to do anything else but sleep)..

for improving verbal ..we can read a lil bit of article on daily basis...what u say guyz..??
does anyone have any good link for this???

ciaoo..

I dont agree with you when it comes to studying in offfice. I dont recommend hard core studying in office. One reason is that would affect ur performance in ur offfice. Second...tht way one would end up neither studying well nor doing office work well. But what one can do... at max... in office is general reading for RC, grammer or word list.... But not quant. DI , reasoning.

There r many other factors which i would like to mention. Two days ago i was talking to my PL. He said that in Feb when H1 visa nominations were being made in my office...my PL didnot suggest my name as he thought tht i would be leaving the company for pursuing MBA. Now i am in no mans land...neither MBA nor visa procesing for onsite. I'm cursing myself why i disclosed my future plans to my team members... Though they dont intend any harm to me but these things do happen.

So i dont suggest preparing in office for CAT.

Charl

[candybean$$$$]

Hi guys!!!

I work around 12 to 14 hous a day..i think u might squeeze in an hour or so at work..u may check online resources at:

http://dictionary.reference.com/ for Words..

http://www.allthetests.com/gmat_intr...e_qs/ds1.shtml for Data Sufficiency. This relates more to GMAT but hey dude, its kool to practice on it..

http://www.ets.org/bin/gre-practicet...Interpretation

This one is again for GRE but doesnt harm to practice on it..

Have more resources but that info is in office..will post it in sometime though!!!!!

[Abhishek Jha]

ya dosto,

IT work consumes hell lot of time. Guess utilising office hours can be saviour. Especially for English, we can head towards library for half an hour or so anytime. As far as Maths is concerned, morning one to two hours is sufficient.

Finding ways to escape work is also good option

[candybean$$$$]

hey man u cant just escape work forever!!!!!

its better to start searching for online resources that might just help you prepare...

its not tough to squeeze in some free time at work!!!!

[DesiGuru]

Study 0-4+ hours on weekends
Read regularly on various topics fiction and non fiction.
Do not prep daily
Pursue other interesting activities to keep your mind active like writing or dancing
Give the Mock CATs regularly.
Take 1 week off before the CAT

Any more prep than that does not matter in the end.

K

[candybean$$$$]

if u wanna hone your reading skills, you might try the Hindu's website:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/

[one_step_to_insanity]

Do you work 12-14 hours or stay in office that long? There is a huge difference

People in s/w tend to spend all their time in office for god-knows-what reasons. Then they complain about not having free time. This is how I was till I decided I had reached my last-shot-at-MBA time. If you are serious about MBA, very soon you'll realise ways of being productive at work so that the 12-14 becomes 10-12 and then eventually 8-10.

[linkinpool123]

I dont agree with you when it comes to studying in offfice. I dont recommend hard core studying in office. One reason is that would affect ur performance in ur offfice. Second...tht way one would end up neither studying well nor doing office work well. But what one can do... at max... in office is general reading for RC, grammer or word list.... But not quant. DI , reasoning.

well i'm completely agree with u..but what i mean is u can atleast study something...say you can definitely improve your communication skill but taking training, learning from CBTs,working on ur general VERBAL abilities. Because a good oral n written communication skill is a basic job requirement.

yeah...i definitely recommend not to share about ur plans with others..unless n otherwise u can trust them..or they are also in the same hunt :-)

Increasing ur WORD POWER and brushin up the GRAMMER is a good utilisation of office time...i highly doubted that affects the office work adversly as most of us i hope do the same kind of work repeatedly where we surely find soem time where we are just sitting idle

so do prepare for cat and do the best for it.these are just suggestion which cant suit every one of us.take the best for u coz th demand in ur job may not be same as in our case.But for person in most IT business..time is a big factor..So THINK abt it

BBYe

[candybean$$$$]

o well...its more about working smart at work so u may actually work for 9 hrs in the standard 9 hr shift..

its important to cut down on work hours if possible!!!!!

have started doing so already and it helps!!!!..

dude!!!! its only SMART Work that matters..

anyways, anyone has any suggestions on maths????:robot:

[orca]

Originally Posted by DesiGuru

Study 0-4+ hours on weekends
Read regularly on various topics fiction and non fiction.
Do not prep daily
Pursue other interesting activities to keep your mind active like writing or dancing
Give the Mock CATs regularly.
Take 1 week off before the CAT

I did all of this, infact exactly this (other than the dancing part of course ), took one week off before CAT 2004, wrote a coupla mocks in the final week, cracked 60+ scores in both of them, went into CAT2K4 and got belted big time Maybe this worked for DG in CAT2K5 but not for me in CAT2K4 but then, my QA and DI skills may not be as good as DG's ki I could get into the groove in just 2-3 weeks.

However I too wud say "Dont Prep Daily", there are better ways to waste time daily stay in touch is what I wud suggest.

Originally Posted by DesiGuru

Any more prep than that does not matter in the end.

K

Only in those sections u are naturally good at. If there is something u suck big time at (for eg: me in QA ), u got to get out of your comfort zone and make an earnest effort to build an aptitude over 3-4 months. That at the end of the day will help you much more in the actual exam than the 20+ mocks u write.

PS: Coming to the actual purpose of this thread I can pretty well relate to it, I too was stuck in a 14-15 hrs per day job when I wrote CAT2K4.