[Preety89]

Hi All,

Its great to be a part of PG.
I am currently workin with an MNC. Never been to any coaching institute for MBA coaching. Planning to give JMET this year! Have seen ppl attending coaching insitutes and working real hard till late nights & my prep(havent started yet) can't be compared to theirs. But something tells me things will work out.
These are the books Ive gathered.
TIME CAT material
GRE Big Book and Barron's
RS Agarwal Quant book.

I plan to go through all these.... Any other books u feel I need to consider? Pls note that i am not attending any coaching institute hence, prep is all by myself. Pls mention the names of books, In most of the posts, its been said that CAT prep is more than enough but Ive never prepared for CAT either so I need names of the books(esp higher level maths0. Pls dont think I cant make it without coaching hence dont refrain from mentioning tough books' names. pls guide

If you feel there's no way one can make it without any coaching etc, your thoughts are most welcome.

Pls Noe: Books helpful for CAT can also be mentioned.
Regards
Priti

[diablorulez]

Originally Posted by Preety89

Hi All,

Its great to be a part of PG.
I am currently workin with an MNC. Never been to any coaching institute for MBA coaching. Planning to give JMET this year! Have seen ppl attending coaching insitutes and working real hard till late nights & my prep(havent started yet) can't be compared to theirs. But something tells me things will work out.
These are the books Ive gathered.
TIME CAT material
GRE Big Book and Barron's
RS Agarwal Quant book.

I plan to go through all these.... Any other books u feel I need to consider? Pls note that i am not attending any coaching institute hence, prep is all by myself. Pls mention the names of books, In most of the posts, its been said that CAT prep is more than enough but Ive never prepared for CAT either so I need names of the books(esp higher level maths0. Pls dont think I cant make it without coaching hence dont refrain from mentioning tough books' names. pls guide

If you feel there's no way one can make it without any coaching etc, your thoughts are most welcome.

Pls Noe: Books helpful for CAT can also be mentioned.
Regards
Priti

first thing m gonna say is chill!! who said ppl cant do without coaching thast myth, exageration rumour call it names what u like.. its pretty possible that u can do without coaching

apart from ur list what confused me is whats GRE book is doing here.

if u need vocab then read newspaper and do "word power made easy" for short time

and yeah apart form time material.. please do mocks as thats a must must thing.. get hold of it and start doing and analysing them

about more books
check this thread( though i feel so much reading is not reqd)
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/prep-r...537-books.html (Books)

[onelastshot]

Originally Posted by navneet023

I am not sure....but I don't know why I get a feeling that yep we both are in the same comany....

anyways..dun let anyone choke u....u simply dun deserve it...

hi navneet023 and libi .....u know wat .... after reading ur blogs i some how feel that i am also in the same company as u people are ....even i am chocking to death ....even i am in the similar boat as u gyz are .......
i have been taking the IMS sim cats ......and am not making a good percentlie at all(fluctuating) .......some time i feel so low that i feel like commiting suicide ...god only know wats gonna happen ........and where i am heading to ..............!!!
good luck guyz !!!

[chekidu]

Originally Posted by onelastshot

hi navneet023 and libi .....u know wat .... after reading ur blogs i some how feel that i am also in the same company as u people are ....even i am chocking to death ....even i am in the similar boat as u gyz are .......
i have been taking the IMS sim cats ......and am not making a good percentlie at all(fluctuating) .......some time i feel so low that i feel like commiting suicide ...god only know wats gonna happen ........and where i am heading to ..............!!!
good luck guyz !!!

ahem ahem dude.. chill

its after all just a CAT... it s just an exam....dont be sad or get dejected...
regular and systematic preperation even at this juncture can help u a lot.

do contact puys for tips n tricks n updtaes... do read "All i want to speak about cat".. u will get loads of inspiring stories there...

ciao,

[dagny_taggart]

hey puys, can ne1 plz share their ims login id n password. i'm not able to lay my hands on ims tests. there is no ims center in my home town where i'm rt nw stranded due to jaundice. my prep is going down the drain due to this stupid disease...

[diablorulez]

Originally Posted by onelastshot

hi navneet023 and libi .....u know wat .... after reading ur blogs i some how feel that i am also in the same company as u people are ....even i am chocking to death ....even i am in the similar boat as u gyz are .......
i have been taking the IMS sim cats ......and am not making a good percentlie at all(fluctuating) .......some time i feel so low that i feel like commiting suicide ...god only know wats gonna happen ........and where i am heading to ..............!!!
good luck guyz !!!

yeah to add to what chekidu said..we all have been there felt that..u jst need to hold on lil bit more friend

check this out
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/1162354-post1903.html

mocks r not the only thing.. so chill!!!

[raghav507]

hi puys,
the next article in the Monday Arun Sharma series...

PLAN YOUR APPROACH

PROPER PLANNING OF YOUR CAREER CAN HELP YOU DO BETTER IN THE CAT. NOT ONLY DOES IT HELP REDUCE YOUR PRESSURE,IT HELPS YOU PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD AS WELL. ARUN SHARMA ELABORATES


In today's article we would like to move out of CAT specific talks and turn our focus towards issues and perspectives that you need to keep in mind while planning for an MBA career. Many of our readers have been sending us queries on Education Times Counselors forum about such general but crucial issues which we address today.

We would try to provide a comprehensive answer to queries about these and how proper planning of your career can actually help you do better in the CAT as you can definitely reduce the pressure on yourself while taking the examination. Let us deal with this issue by issue:

Issue I: Form filling - how to decide on which forms to fill and which institutes to apply to.
Well, our take on this is that it would depend on your objectives while you are preparing for the MBA entrance exam season. Broadly there could be two approaches that one could take for the MBA entrance preparation process — both equally valid and perhaps equally advisable.

Approach 1: The 'Have to Get in this year approach.' This approach (as is clear from the name itself) does not allow an individual any flexibility with respect to the time-frame he/she has in terms of making it to a B-school — as you have to get in this year and join whatever college comes up and then try to make the best out of what you have.

Obviously, aspirants who for some reason/s do not have an option to hold back for a year and take another shot at the management entrance exam season take such an approach. Aspirants preparing with such an objective would obviously need to focus on getting everything right in this attempt. Quite naturally, this would lead to building pressure on them, which normally would have a tendency to reduce performance. Such aspirants have a tendency to take things too seriously and any hints of non-performance either in the mock CATs they take or a couple of unproductive minutes in the actual CAT is taken as an indicator of a life lived as a second class citizen. Second class compared to the IIT and IIM pass outs.

Naturally this thinking comes out of the fact that aspirants taking this approach have to make do with whatever institute they get into — in that matter they really do not have much of a choice. If you belong to this category of aspirants, the biggest favour you could perhaps do to yourself and your chances in the MBA exam season ahead is to show yourself that in case you do not make it to the IIMs then it is not the end of the road. Suppose you had to join a third-level B School, does it mean that you are always going to remain a second class citizen in corporate life; wherever the IIM passouts go you would have to bow to them?

Talk to any person who has experienced 10-15 years of corporate life and he/she would tell you that such is not the case. People from second level and third level B-schools regularly outshine people from the IIMs. It is not like the Civil Services, where once you got a second class service you would always have to bow down in front of people who beat you in one exam 30 years ago. So, perhaps all aspirants who find themselves in the 'have to get in this year stage' should relax a little. Form your plans of how you are going to make it to the top irrespective of how you do in this year's CAT/XAT etc. That way the risk factor you enter into the CAT with will be reduced and you would be ironically giving it your best shot.
If you do not create this plan of action, then even a little slip upon the D-day will lead to a psychological storm inside your mind, heart and stomach leaving you with no clear thinking — leading to gross underperformance in the exam. That's because of the tendency to create an equation between underperformance in the exam and a second-class corporate existence.

Granted, there is a lot of difference if you pass out from an IIM versus you do not. However, what you need to realise is that there are many ways in which you could overcome a failure at the CAT. One of which is the option of a second MBA. In case you do not make it to the IIMs then there would always be the option of doing an MBA from whichever best institute you make it to, and then build your working experience for 3-5 years and then plan to do a second MBA either in the form of an executive MBA from IIMs or ISB or even by planning to get into a top international B-school like Harvard, and so on.

Five years down the line you will have a superior bio-data than people who beat you to the IIMs this year. The point is that in case you find out at the end of the MBA exams process that you were not able to enter a B-school you had aspired for, there are a lot of ways of getting ahead in life

Approach 2: The 'I will make it to IIMs or a top B-school in the next three years.' Such people have the luxury of being in a no-risk zone. They can easily tell themselves that I will only enter an MBA this year in the case I make the B-school I aspire for. If I do not, my plan anyways is to get into the IIMs in 2009 or 2010 or 2011 or perhaps even 2012. I know of a lot of students who took this two-three year approach to making it into the IIMs and got in only in their third or later approach.

There are two obvious advantages of this approach —
1) Lesser pressure while taking the exams allowing you to perform freely
2) As you go on experiencing the CAT you would ideally end up developing your intelligence — if you are working through the right approach for the CAT. So, as you go for your second, third, fourth attempts, if you keep incrementing your knowledge, skills and exposure in the right direction you would end up making it eventually
The only risks inherent in this approach that you need to guard against are:

• The tendency to develop a losing mindset with respect to the CAT — something that you can guard against by working on the development of your intelligences

• The inability to augment your bio-data during the interim time.
So, our advice to those taking this approach is that you should focus on gainfully applying yourself to your bio-data building. Gaining work-ex is a must in such a case and you can also additionally join other professional courses in the interim or even try to create a reading framework in a particular direction that would help you develop your knowledge and exposure as well as the confidence to defend yourself in case you are asked the dreaded question: 'What were you doing after your graduation?'
(The author is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, a nationally renowned CAT trainer and the author of a series of best-selling books
published by Tata McGraw Hill on CAT and
other aptitude exams)

[Sandy2003]

Guys,

i need help from all of you, abt 2 months to go and my scores are stuck between 80-90 range, dont know how to improve on those scores,

when i check my mock cat at home, i feel like killing myself how i could leave such an easy question

please help me, how to improve on those scores

[akshay1384]

Originally Posted by Sandy2003

Guys,

i need help from all of you, abt 2 months to go and my scores are stuck between 80-90 range, dont know how to improve on those scores,

when i check my mock cat at home, i feel like killing myself how i could leave such an easy question

please help me, how to improve on those scores

Although my percentile are not in ur range bt the problem with me is also the same.
Almost evry1 will say the same thing again again - PRACTICE PRACTICE n more PRACTICE.
There is no other way to maxmize the score!!!!
Try increasing the accuracy level, it helped me a little bit and I somehow improved in 1 or 2 sections bt still the overall hasn't increased much.
Also evaluate ur tests at home and find out where the problem lies & tackle them as soon as possble.

[Sandy2003]

Originally Posted by akshay1384

Although my percentile are not in ur range bt the problem with me is also the same.
Almost evry1 will say the same thing again again - PRACTICE PRACTICE n more PRACTICE.
There is no other way to maxmize the score!!!!
Try increasing the accuracy level, it helped me a little bit and I somehow improved in 1 or 2 sections bt still the overall hasn't increased much.
Also evaluate ur tests at home and find out where the problem lies & tackle them as soon as possble.

how much u r scoring akshay, and what u think is the best way to improve on this score