[adityacooool]

Originally Posted by sarwan1987

I am actually gonna take up CAT for the third time this year....both the previous occasions i messed up quants royally...last time got a 99 in verbal and 98 in logic...but got a score in quant which is quite undisclosable....I have realized half the problem with quant is in my mind....this year have been working hard to improve my confidence in Quant....got Arun Sharma and have finished the first block....but after solving the questions there...and trying to solve questions posted in QQAD,Number System,official Quant Thread 09 i find i am still struggling....also i have TIME material with me....apart from mastering the concepts and fundas....practice in which kinda problems will help me increase my confidence level in Quant....Should I be first solving the TIME material and problems in Arun Sharma..and then move on to higher difficulty problems?...friends plz help me...what should be my approach here on?

1. I Did not understand by what you meant by "First Block".
2. As you might know, CAT has NO SYLLABUS! so no one can point out which kind of problems can fetch you better marks or which kind of problems you should be practicing more of.

as i had said, HARDWORK and PRACTICE are the ONLY shortcuts for cracking CAT. you cant pick and choose, if you want to get a good percentile. practice all types of questions you can lay your hands on.

It would be a good idea to do Arun Sharma first. doing that will certainly expose you to all the possible type of questins that CAN come in CAT. Then after that you may move on to past years' Mock CATs and CAT exams for a better understanding of the difficulty level.

Happy Preparation

Best of Luck!

[sarwan1987]

Originally Posted by adityacooool

1. I Did not understand by what you meant by "First Block".
2. As you might know, CAT has NO SYLLABUS! so no one can point out which kind of problems can fetch you better marks or which kind of problems you should be practicing more of.

as i had said, HARDWORD and PRACTICE are the ONLY shortcuts for cracking CAT. you cant pick and choose, if you want to get a good percentile. practice all types of questions you can lay your hands on.

It would be a good idea to do Arun Sharma first. doing that will certainly expose you to all the possible type of questins that CAN come in CAT. Then after that you may move on to past years' Mock CATs and CAT exams for a better understanding of the difficulty level.

Happy Preparation

Best of Luck!

By First Block I meant Number Systems and Progressions in Arun Sharma

and also I din mean to ask about the syllabus but the difficulty levels and the standard of the questions in the books and materials i had referred to

Thanks buddy for giving a good idea of things

[jadon_astha]

hey puys.....this will b the fourth n possibly last time i'll b writing CAT.....all past times i realized that i flunked ma CAT each time royally b'coz of ma fear while writing exam... and possibly ma VA....and now wen i'm out of ma depression of not making it so many times i want to give it a last try.....puys help me to push ma self and out do ma own expectation and also tell me how to again start ma studies......

[rits_vyas]

Thanks man!!!

Your answers really help a lot... :-)

Cheers!!!!

[rits_vyas]

Thanks man!!!

Your answers really help a lot... :-)

Cheers!!!!

[rahulfavourite]

How and from where do i start my preparation.
I do only little of all section daily(QA DI and RC)
But i m not getting sufficient confidence or ignition inside me..
So pls help me.....

[computer_nerd]

I seriously don't want to spam, but it seems my question has drowned in the "Calling All 2009 CAT puys" thread and this anyways looks to be the more apt place to ask it:

There have been so many instances of people stating that certain colleges like IIM-B,C give greater weightage to profiles (work ex, extra currics etc.) when handing out interview calls.

The CAT aplication form only asks for the impersonal no. of years of experience and not the company name or job profile. Neither can we project good extra curricular achievements.

Are we supposed to send out proofs of such add-ons with our application form even if not asked for? I can't figure out any other way of letting them know for an interview call.

[hari_87]

Originally Posted by computer_nerd

I seriously don't want to spam, but it seems my question has drowned in the "Calling All 2009 CAT puys" thread and this anyways looks to be the more apt place to ask it:

There have been so many instances of people stating that certain colleges like IIM-B,C give greater weightage to profiles (work ex, extra currics etc.) when handing out interview calls.

The CAT aplication form only asks for the impersonal no. of years of experience and not the company name or job profile. Neither can we project good extra curricular achievements.

Are we supposed to send out proofs of such add-ons with our application form even if not asked for? I can't figure out any other way of letting them know for an interview call.

that's not true..a few iims look at some things like ur X,XII and UG marks, and ur no. of years of work-ex..that's all..u can chk the shortlisting criteria on the net..they have been made available to public..and btw, iim-c looked only at cat score, and did not, as u said,give any weightage to profile for shortlisting candidates..

[adityacooool]

Originally Posted by rahulfavourite

How and from where do i start my preparation.
I do only little of all section daily(QA DI and RC)
But i m not getting sufficient confidence or ignition inside me..
So pls help me.....

Rahul,

This would be something no one can possibly help you with. you yourself will have to kickstart your preparation.

Try and find some more time than u do now and i suggest you start preparing from any of the coaching institutes material. All of them have basics explained in details. Fr QA, another very good source of preparation is the NCERT books. try laying your hands on NCERT Mathematics books from 6th standard to 10th standard. They really help

[adityacooool]

Originally Posted by computer_nerd

There have been so many instances of people stating that certain colleges like IIM-B,C give greater weightage to profiles (work ex, extra currics etc.) when handing out interview calls.

The CAT application form only asks for the impersonal no. of years of experience and not the company name or job profile. Neither can we project good extra curricular achievements.

Are we supposed to send out proofs of such add-ons with our application form even if not asked for? I can't figure out any other way of letting them know for an interview call.

Well,

I must say, i like the question.

And i must also say that i really do not have much information regarding what the B Schools actually look for, in the profile. IIM A and IIM B have a documented formula that they use while dishing out calls, but other than that, i will be of little help

In last CAT application form, in addition to the No. of months' work exp, the sector of work experience was also asked. And no, we are not supposed to send out any additional documents other than the ones they ask for.