[raghav507]

Originally Posted by user1285

Hi Puys ,

Need some advice on some very basic stuff .

I have joined TIME class room recently .
Got the material , started the class also .
However the the material do not have any thing about how to go about using those books . Most of the books just have exercises . Also did not get info abt these in the class also ( not sure if thr will be any session on how to start with with the prep ) .

So thats my qusetion , how do i start with my prep how to approach the materials ?
ppl who have been thr done that , pls guide me how to start

hi user,
i have enrolled for the time correspondence course this year...
the books i have got have the plan drawn in them as flowcharts...may be you can check the books with your other batchmates...
i don't remember the names of the books...if u still need them i ll mail them to you after monday...
a generalised approach for that is to finish the concept building books first, then the exercises...

[user1285]

Originally Posted by raghav507

hi user,
i have enrolled for the time correspondence course this year...
the books i have got have the plan drawn in them as flowcharts...may be you can check the books with your other batchmates...
i don't remember the names of the books...if u still need them i ll mail them to you after monday...
a generalised approach for that is to finish the concept building books first, then the exercises...

Thanks raghav ,

I have not got 1 book of the set , may be that has the plan .
Will try to confirm from my batchmates also .
Pls let me know which book it was .

[neha_tyro]

i should drown myself.........
this my last aimcat918 result
DI-: 2
QA-: -2
Eng-: 26

Can anybody ple help me wht shd i do... to get good score next time....
and i hv a very bad habit that if i'm aint getting any answer then also i mark any option which i feel wud be the right choice....precisely, most of the time in quant and in di i do guess work which i knw i shudnt but canthelp it.. ple help me.....
and i knw yeah qaunt was really easy.....though i hvnt revised every topic of it but srtill the ques were really easy and shud hv been solved but i cudnt,... jab ki i gave almost 90 mins of the time to qaunt sc...english cud hv been better. i sud hv sored more in it. rc's were really easy ...and di was pathetic. i didnt understand a single ques except the cricket one, wich i uthot i did all right but got only one right.....
INfact in AIMCAT19, d cut off was 22 and i got 26, i claerd it well and socred 90.76 % in di but this time i screwed it badly......

PLE HELP ME HOW SHUD I DO DI AND IMPORVE QAUNT SOCRE...PLE PLE...

this was aimcat918 result. got 39% and in aimcat919 got 60%. instead of improving, my performance is detrioating.....
ple help me with the prepartion.
if i go on like this then i'll never be able to crack cat....
days are passing by so quickly..time is getting lesser day by day and i'm no where near average also.
i'm so ocnfused now.....
i strted prepartion just monath ago.. in quant just covered 4 chaps- nos,eq,ration,ppl and nothing else. for vocab,doing norman lewis-2nd time and doing words from time's website and trying to read newspaper regularly....and rc from time's materail...and tried to do di fromtime's materail but cnt solve it in aimcat.....
ple guide me....ple i beg u....
yehi haal raha tho i'll neer be able to crack cat..... :'(



and if ur really interested to help me then here's my time table which i try to follow but miss out on one or other thing-----

3-4 hrs of quant daily....
1 and half hr of reading hindu daily..
1 hour for rc from time materail(not on daily basis...but m trying to do it regulalry)
1 hr of norman lewis.
45 mins-60 min sof VA booklet of time (not on daily basis...but m trying to do it regulalry)
1 hr of di/ds materail (again not regaurly)
1-and half hr or wren and martin
and lastly.. new words from dictionary.maintitng its dairy and using these new words....

[avinav2712]

Originally Posted by neha_tyro

i should drown myself.........
this my last aimcat918 result
DI-: 2
QA-: -2
Eng-: 26

3-4 hrs of quant daily....
1 and half hr of reading hindu daily..
1 hour for rc from time materail(not on daily basis...but m trying to do it regulalry)
1 hr of norman lewis.
45 mins-60 min sof VA booklet of time (not on daily basis...but m trying to do it regulalry)
1 hr of di/ds materail (again not regaurly)
1-and half hr or wren and martin
and lastly.. new words from dictionary.maintitng its dairy and using these new words....

The schedule that you mentioned looks fine to me; in fact it looks quite rigorous to me..... It's gr8 if you're able to follow it everyday. Even if you miss 1-2 things sometime, it's still rigorous for me.

But one thing, I think you're neglecting LR/DI in this.... Just going by your schedule, you're only allotting 1 hr to DI and 3-4 hrs to QA and 3 hrs to Eng. Do you think it's justified??

And probably I don't need to tell this, but you need to improve your accuracy. This you know as you admitted that you're in a habit of marking unnecessarily. This has to stop..... It's not at all about how many you attempt, it's just about how many correct you get and basically, what's your accuracy. In the mock that you mentioned, you can see the implications of it.... (DI + QA = 0)

Try and not get worked up while studying, or while taking these mocks. Getting tense is one of the major reasons of not being able to perform to potential. Also, when you study, it's no point studying for long hours at a stretch or measuring how many hrs u studied in a day. I had studied around 2-3 hrs a day on an average and still managed a good %ile (check my signature links).

So, just reschedule your study plan. Give equal weightage to all three sections, as far as possible. It'll be good if you could study all 3 sections every day but it's not necessary. You can manage otherwise as well.

Anyways, if you need any help, you can always pm me

[eric.segal1]

guys i hv a problem that m not able to find the reason of !!
i've started giving tests and i see that when i do all the Qns of the test i can solve almost 90% of the Qns in maths and 80% in DI and VA Quickly, Correctly and with no apparent difficulty....while in the test i rejected those as either difficlt ones or did it wrong or did it half way through(getting nowhere).....
the point i want to make is.... under time limit my performance takes a nose dive while with the same Qns with no time constraint i perform exceptionally well and end up doing it well within the time i should hv taken in a test !!
i cannot find the reason for this so that i could work on it !
if u could find any reason to it plz reply me !!
thanking u in anticipation !!

[diablorulez]

Originally Posted by eric.segal1

guys i hv a problem that m not able to find the reason of !!
i've started giving tests and i see that when i do all the Qns of the test i can solve almost 90% of the Qns in maths and 80% in DI and VA Quickly, Correctly and with no apparent difficulty....while in the test i rejected those as either difficlt ones or did it wrong or did it half way through(getting nowhere).....
the point i want to make is.... under time limit my performance takes a nose dive while with the same Qns with no time constraint i perform exceptionally well and end up doing it well within the time i should hv taken in a test !!
i cannot find the reason for this so that i could work on it !
if u could find any reason to it plz reply me !!
thanking u in anticipation !!

well most of the aspirants can do that ..under no time constraints mostly will solve the paper and thats what has always been .. thats y time factor comes in play

what u need to work which i guess u also know..is practicing alot with time..

take Timed sectional tests ..and this will help.. first let urself be slow.. u might be able to do less questions but try to do them correctly and then slowly try to increase ur pace.. by using all kind of hook n crook method such as eliminations and substitution.. try to find out ur strenght and use it vidictively on paper

[avinav2712]

Originally Posted by eric.segal1

guys i hv a problem that m not able to find the reason of !!
i've started giving tests and i see that when i do all the Qns of the test i can solve almost 90% of the Qns in maths and 80% in DI and VA Quickly, Correctly and with no apparent difficulty....while in the test i rejected those as either difficlt ones or did it wrong or did it half way through(getting nowhere).....
the point i want to make is.... under time limit my performance takes a nose dive while with the same Qns with no time constraint i perform exceptionally well and end up doing it well within the time i should hv taken in a test !!
i cannot find the reason for this so that i could work on it !
if u could find any reason to it plz reply me !!
thanking u in anticipation !!

I think most of the test takers (and not "givers") can solve many of the questions, either when they take it home, or they don't have any time constraints. It's not just about how many questions you can solve, it's more about how many within the given time frame, taking into account the peer pressure, exam pressure etc.

Be cool in the mocks and although you've to worry about the time, don't worry about the peer/exam pressure. You'll start getting the hang of the exams and performance would improve

All the best

[diablorulez]

here are last year QQAD files. I have uploaded them on filefactory as PG had space constraints. hope it helps

QQAD.doc
qqad_test_1.doc
qqad_test_1_solution.doc
qqad_test_2.doc
Sectional Test T01.doc
Sectional Test T01_KEYS.doc
Solution QQAD Test 3.doc
Solutions Test 2.doc
Solutions Test 4 QQAD.doc
Test 4 QQAD.doc
DI Question.doc
QQAD Test 3 CAT 2007.doc

[leeandrea]

You're there! I'm also thinking of how ii could be able to do when in fact we are now in our very busy in where I am studying right now. This is very hard in my part & I just can't take our project (making our own film) right now for granted.
I don't know now what to do guys.

[Federer]

Hi guys,

I am starting prep for CAT08, also prepared for 07 but didn't get anywhere. Anyone who can tell me how I should go abt the business again? Should i start again or what? what should i do in the beginning?

Abhishek