[avinav2712]

Originally Posted by sankalp.verma

@avinav -- Thanks for replying

But my question still remains the same "What should be the best strategy from now onwards to prepare for CAT?"

I will appreciate if fellow PUYS can answer this question as many folks have this question in their mind.

Thanks,
Sankalp

As I wrote in my earlier post, your strategy for the mocks should be that you continue with your experimentation except for the last few mocks perhaps.

If you're asking for the strategy to study, I think that you should gradually start shifting from practicing examples to practicing questions from mocks.

Other than this if you're asking for any specific strategy (like managing time, handling weak areas etc), then I may try to help you better

[san_13]

Hi friends,
I am having 15 years of professional experience as Civil Engineer in PSU.
10th & 12th 79%, graduation 73% from REC. I am stuck at same designation from begining but had very diversified experience. Now there are great prospects for Civil Engineer in Private sector. I've made up my mind for change. Till now I could not move on or go for PG due to one or other reason. I would like suggestion from you whether full time MBA would realy benefit me or should I go for advanced course ( PGD in Construction Management from NICMR, etc) in my parent field.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Regards.

[coolbryan_love]

Originally Posted by san_13

Hi friends,
I am having 15 years of professional experience as Civil Engineer in PSU.
10th & 12th 79%, graduation ..........

Wooh man..U have some experience!!!!

I mean 15 yrs...If am right i have juz seen 1 person on PG with such xp..He is some DIG n did his MBA from IIM-A...

Well considering ur work ex...i dun think u shd go for 2 yrs of regular MBA...ISB offers a 1yr MBA tht is highly recognized...n u have pretty good profile...u shd aim for tht...

I dun have much idea bout the Phd course u mentioned...So can't draw a comparison b/w 2...
But any insti other than top 3 or ISB..would be waste of ur ex n knowledge that u have in ur domain....

[udit_adhlakha]

hi puys,

I have a 25 months experience in IT and have been giving cat for the past three years.. gt a decent score of 98.8 in 2006 with a good sectional cut off which fetched me a call from MDI PGPM (could not convert) and a few more colleges, the next year could not work hard due to the work pressure and as a result the percentlie reduced to a 97.

I am now planning to start again but am facing the same difuculties i.e. am doing a lot of work at office.. usually come home late and don have time to put in any hardwork.. The only preparation that i have done for the past one month is the newspapers..

I know that there is no short cut to hardwork.. but wht i need to know is that is there any stategy that you guys applied, specially when we start around the mid of august..

Thanks in advance

[BigMach09]

Hi puys,

I am shooting at CAT for the first time my in my life. I Joined Pagagl guy few months back, but then there was nothing concrete about my plan. And when the Countdown reached 100 days, I got my Heart all pump up to say Give CAT. I know 100 days, with fulltime job as an onsite co-ordinator, I am actually shooting at stars, But I am helpless when my heart says If i want to make it to IIM, that gotta be in 2008.

Need all your support and help. Will try to help out others in every way possible. To motivate myself and to track myself, i have started a personal blog, where i will put up my daily plan, what i achieved, what i missed and detail every moment of my CAT prep. Every question i hit a No will be posted in this Wonderfull forum, to get ur expert opinion.

Incase if anyone is like me and want to share the plan, I will be glad to do that. As I learned in the last 4 years, there is nothing better than working in a Team. This helps to solve the problem easily and stay focused on our goal.

Ok puys, All the best. Probably i will come online today night to post some of the Arun sharma questions i am not able to crack.

Let the fight Begin

[raghav507]

hi puys,
here's another article from Arun Sharma...

Smart CAT

BREAKING UP THE CAT PORTION INTO CLEARLY DEFINED SEGMENTS CAN GO A LONG WAY IN IMPROVING YOUR OVERALL SCORE. ARUN SHARMA GIVES YOU THE LOWDOWN ON HOW TO MAKE THESE DIVISIONS


One of the key problems that students repeatedly face when they are preparing for the CAT, is the uncertainty built into their lives due to the problem of managing multiple lines of work at the same time.
In fact, if you were to look at it, you would see three sections to prepare for. Most aspirants organize their preparations by dividing their work based on these three lines. A major issue that students often face is creating a schedule of work which would balance preparations for each of the three sections.
Ideally, you would be better off by creating a preparation outline that engulfs 16 independent lines of preparation. You would need to manage your preparation in these 16 different lines in order to prepare for the CAT in particular and management entrance exams in general.
THESE LINES OF PREPARATION ARE:
Six lines of preparation in quantitative aptitude, four lines of preparation in language, four lines of preparation in data interpretation and logical reasoning, one line of preparation in calculations and most importantly, one line of preparation which you can call your ‘self belief’. The six lines of preparation in quantitative aptitude are:
Block 1 (Number systems + progressions)
Block 2 (Averages + allegation)
Block 3 (Percentages, profit and loss, ratio and proportions, interests, time and work, time speed and distance)
Block 4 (Geometry and mensuration),
Block 5 (Functions, inequalities, logarithms and quadratic equations)
Block 6 (Permutations and combinations, probability)
In general, you need to realize the following issues with respect to Quants preparation:
1) Block 1 and Block 5 given above are the most important for CAT and XAT as also for most other good MBA entrance exams like IIFT, SNAP etc.
2) Do not prepare yourself only to the point of portion coverage rather take your learning in every block to the level of reflex. Work on transforming your beliefs- where you take yourself not only to the point of knowing something but also knowing that you know it. Perhaps this issue is much more important than your covering your portion for your preparations.
After all, every student who has ever taken the CAT, has always known about the importance of Block 1. Yet, for instance when the CAT 2006 paper gave 12 questions out of 25 {48 marks out of 100 where the 90 percentile score in Quants was 25-28} over 90% aspirants were not able to solve more than two-three questions out of these 12. Or for that matter, also consider the fact that in the CAT 2007 exam, there were around 9-10 questions that could be clearly classified as Block 1 questions, yet when it came to solving these the QA sectional cut off clearly showed us that not more than 10% of CAT aspirants last year were able to solve more than five questions in the whole section. If only aspirants would realize that there is a difference between having studied a chapter, and having ingrained it.

Moving on to the English section of preparation, the four lines of preparation for English language are-1) Word level skills- Comprising your vocabulary, your knowledge of phrasal verbs and idioms as well as your ability to solve questions based on the usage of vocabulary.
2) Sentence level skills- Comprising your ability to comprehend texts from various sources, your ability to understand long and complex sentences from various topics. Also your ability to solve FIJ types of questions and other question types that might qualify under sentence level. Sentence level preparations also critically determine your ability to understand and distinguish between what two or more options are saying.3) Paragraph level skills- Comprising your ability to connect the meanings of multiple sentences that form paragraphs- on various topics written in varying degrees of complexity. Typical question types that come under paragraph level preparations can be classified as: Paragraph jumbles and critical reasoning.
4) Passage level skills- Comprising your ability to connect the meanings of multiple paragraphs to develop the comprehension of a passage.
The fact of the matter is that the CAT paper left aspirants across India confused when it came to the English section. It is said that the options were so close that 2.5 lakh aspirants had major problems in understanding the difference between the options.

For instance, imagine the difference between the following two statements:1) The cat is on the mat
2) The mat is on the cat
The question here is: Is there a distinction between these two statements? Can you see it, and if you can, why on earth can’t 2.5 lakh CAT aspirants do the same for these options to the reading comprehension questions in the CAT 2007 paper.
The question was: “What is the thematic highlight of the passage?” Options included:
1) In the absence of strong biological linkages, reciprocal roles provide the mechanism for coordinating human behavior.
2) In the absence of reciprocal roles, biological linkages provide the mechanism for coordinating human behavior.
The options continued:
3) Human behavior is independent of biological linkages and reciprocal roles 4) Human behavior depends on biological linkages and reciprocal roles.
And if you cannot read these sentences and understand the critical differences between the idealization being transferred to you by the question setter, do you really deserve a seat at the IIMs?
More importantly, do you end up getting a direction regarding how to prepare for the language section-Should you be studying English or should you be studying logic when you are preparing for the verbal ability and reading comprehension section of the CAT?
(The writer is a corporate trainer, an author of a series of bestselling
books from Tata McGraw Hill and a popular CAT trainer)

[bharathkrishnan]

thanks for the useful link man..i was badly in need of that...cheersssss

[todearprasanth]

there has been a consistent perseverance to Bell the CAT..... but its so "fishy"...keeps slipping away...either percentile or the Gd/PI....watever it may be..... i need to get thru it ...pretty well scoring....my AIMCAT prcentiles have been above 85 in all sections consistently...trying hard.....any hopes....work ex-3yrs...all PSUs...no corporates as such....any suggestions guys.....really making me PaGaL.....!!!!!!!!!!

[nischal]

though i know that this is a discussion forum for working prof, i have a serious doubt about my career that i would like your advice on. I am a 2008 pass out engg student and my cat score in 2007 was 98.5%ile. i didnt get any calls from IIM and had applied only for MDI-HR and TAPMI, both the calls i converted but did not join as i thought that i can give another shot at the PGPM. Now i have passed out this year in April and am placed at TCS. The date of joining is in september/october and from june i have been at home. I did try for other jobs and did get offer letters from 5 companies but none of them were worth it. So i joined a social organisation and am a coordinator for 1 of their social activities. now my doubts are:
(1)Will this break for 2-3 months affect my chances. I mean in GD/PI what can i tell the interviewers if they ask me about this break. Any suggestions as to what else i can do to improve my profile during this time.
(2) Since i have offers from a few companies, should i join them. The problem is these offers are not as good as my current job prospects in TCS.

Any reply is deeply appreciated. Thanks a lot guys

[coolbryan_love]

Originally Posted by nischal

though i know that this is a discussion forum for working prof, i have a serious doubt about my career that i would like your advice on. I am a 2008 pass out engg student and my cat score in 2007 was 98.5%ile. i didnt get any calls from IIM and had applied only for MDI-HR and TAPMI, both the calls i.........

I understand u want an early reply but plz dun post same ques in each n every thread...
you have alreday posted it here
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...ml#post1200683 (MDI Gurgaon 2009-11 Admissions)

please wait for Puys to reply n be patient....