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Originally Posted by soumya_withu
In my opinion at the end of the day, the number of test takers doesn't really matter a lot. The test (s) boil down to "me" vs the question paper.
I always felt that one should attempt mocks as "mocks" and try out different strategies and figure out how flexible one is.
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@ above
I agree that the test boils down to you vs the paper, but you still need at least a decent number of competitors to know your standing. I would say that anything above 15,000 enrolled test takers would be sufficient to give you a fairly accuracte idea of your standing (15,000 would b a gud representative sample space
)... After that, the number of aspirants doesn't matter a lot.
Comparing mock papers of past few years, I find the following:
IMS : Pretty good papers, lots of experimentation in terms of paper structures to get you used to the 'shock factor'. Though, their DI is slightly on the easier side. Their Verbal is rightly touted as the best of all, especially when it comes to explanations of solutions.
TIME : Good Maths section, English OK, but DI is astronomically difficult. Its good if you want to test the limits of your DI (sometimes the solutions of DI sets leave you spellbound!). But they seem unrealistically difficult. Very few variations in the test structures. Last year, more than 50% of their papers had the same pattern as the previous year CAT(i.e. 2007).
PT: Aboslutely useless papers. All sections ridiculously calculation intensive and difficult. Verbal is also not worth it. Find some papers and solve the set only to gain an experience of hlengthy sets so that you can spot them and leave them in an actual paper.
CL : CL produced some pretty good papers last time, with balanced difficulty level on all sections. Sufficient experimentation with the structures and I was particularly impressed with the Maths sections.
hth
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Sushant Bahadur
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