At this point, I cud not help but copy-paste this article that our very own anandv had posted last year, which I found very very useful indeed...I am sure it wil help some of you too...
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http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...tml#post605092 (The Pg Dream Team '06!!!) (The Pg Dream Team '06!!!)
"A few pointers for stuff just before/during the exam and beyond:
0. Reach exam hall early and enjoy the sight of the students who are doing last minute revisions. Don't get nervous when you see other people study but give them a healthy smile
Don't be nervous when you se hoardes of students. Half of them have filled the form because their parents filled it
and another 25% filled the form because their peers filled it, so just to be a part of peer group, he/she filled the form! ;-)
Remember for a given AIR, more the no of students appearing for the exam, better will be your %ile
1. You have done really well throughout the season. Afterall that's why you are in the dream team. So there is no reason why you should not do well in this paper. So keep this thought in mind to overcome anxiety before exam. Don't overhype the paper, just
enjoy the 150 minutes process , n you will be thru!
2. With approx 1.9 lakh students, the best way to remove milk from water is to change pattern.So just keep that in mind. :smile:
Be prepared to get surprised if the pattern does not change
Don't get psyched out by change in pattern. There are enough other aspirants who are going to do that! You need not join that group. :smile:
So at time t=0 , itself you may assume that approx 5-10% people will get psyched out! Good for you!
3. When you get the paper, certianly there will be butterflies in the stomach, there have to be! Else consult a good psychologist
The target is to drive away these butterflies as fast as you can!
So spend initial 10-20 seconds on scanning the paper, go thorough the pages, see how many questions are to be solved, check whether the paper has a few DI sets, a few RCs , check whether the paper is in ENglish langugage
This will help you to drive away the anxiety and it will assure you of the fact that similar DI sets , RCs have been done by you over the mocks. And this is something which is not in greek n latin and hence no need to be nervous!
3. The next anxiety barrier will be broken ,when you get the answer of the 1st problem that you are solving. So don't spend too much time on solving 1st problem. Scan the questions to find the sitter and just DO it
When you get the answer and you find that it is one of the options, butterflies are driven out!
4. With the anxiety bubble being burst, you will fully forget the hype of 1.9 Lakh students n blah blah
You will be back in your tempo.
Keep doing micro-time management using alarm in your watch i.e. after every 15 minutes, do review approx how many questions you have done. This will make sure that you don't lose track of time in the heat of exam!
Just give the exam for 150 minutes in your ususal form and you will be thru!
5. Exam de do,
PG pe scores post karo and so jao
One point though: It is very difficult to predict cutoffs on D-day ,so don't worry if some insti comes up with EU cutoff =22 and you ve got 18 marks as it happened in CAT05!
So don't base your performance on these cutoffs. FYI EU cutoff was 13 marks last year!
6. There will be a void in your life after
CAT.In case you have no more exams , there will be nothing to do! :neutral:
So do all those things that you missed because of busy mock Sundays.
Make friends on
PG, infact a lot of friends I made on
PG were in Dec05, as this was the month of uncertainity, we kept on boosting morale of each other!
7. Be patient about results. They will come , don't worry.
Plz don't spend unncessary time, looking at IIM websites and hitting Refresh Refresh and hoping that a link for result will be out up. :neutral:
IIMs are not stcokmarkets, plz spare them
IIMs will convey you when the results will be out. Don't waste your time about speculating !
Will be back with more tips when my exams get over
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