[Evanescence]

I agree with misha. Sectional tests are most useful in improving your performance in a specific area. I improved my DI tremendously by putting in efforts on DI alone. I saw the results in a few days.

But with so short a time left, it is imperative that we all focus on our strengths and maximise our performance in those areas.

ATB.

[maddy420]

one more pointer here friends..
Accuracy..cos it is making a big dent in my scores...especially the reasons for making mistakes in the VA and RC just makes one experience this sorry feeling "why did'nt i think this way?"..Next is the choice of the tables in DI..
and i go with arun tht we need experience in choosing the easy questions rather than cracking our brains out in the "tuf" questions ...so we become wiser by becoming good choosers..


PG: How do one analyse the VA and RC section.?..i just look at the answers . compare...but I ain't making any improvements in these sections :

[misha]

maddy, you can first check if you had taken all the easy RCs.....
analysis of VA is like...how many attempts, how many wrongs, where can i maximize....

[misha]

Originally Posted by Evanescence @ Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:40 pm

I agree with misha. Sectional tests are most useful in improving your performance in a specific area. I improved my DI tremendously by putting in efforts on DI alone. I saw the results in a few days.

But with so short a time left, it is imperative that we all focus on our strengths and maximise our performance in those areas.

ATB.

hey Evanescence, i've just started on mission DI...any pointers regarding that

[jumbo1511]

even i agree about preferring the 2 hour tests rather than sectional tests at this juncture with just 2 weeks away for CAT...it is also important to identify in which section u can maximise ur score..bcoz just clearing the cut offs in each section is not enough to get calls, one needs to consolidate that by scoring highly in atleast one of the sections.

[maddy420]

Is VA the place where 99+ usually make big differences in their net scores?
Wht would be the ideal attempts in the VA,RC for an easy(simcat2) , difficult (simcat3?) ,normal (Simcat 6) difficulty?

in some other thread of PG i saw the scores of a 100%er in VA to be 38.
How can one estimate the 99% and 98% scores from this data?
throw some light on this cos..we need to clear cutoffs..and also not being light years away from the top scores

[TheAkshaT]

Also go through :-

http://www.pagalguy.com/cat/viewtopic.php?t=4584

-Akshat

[Evanescence]

hi misha

Mission DI...

i first figured out d reasons for my dismal DI scores.

1) i made 2 many calculations.
2) cudnt identify d sitters.
3) dint read ques. left some sets jus by looking at graphs.



with these in mind, i set out taking 20min tests in DI having 25 ques.
things i did differently...

1) read all questions.
2) dint miss d sitters...theres always 1 sitter in a set and also d counting-typr problems(used to screw 'em up too).
3) dint calc actual percentages. went by choices. this really improved my speed.
4) in ques requiring comparisons, i compared fractions rather than their decimal equivalents.

not only did my speed improve, so did my accuracy. i was able to do 16-18 ques in 20 min.
this gives me 15 min for LR and 5 min for DS. so my overall attempts in DI/LR (in CRTs) have been consistently at 22-25 with max 3 errors (errors had been my biggest prob...used to be like 17 attempts 7 errors etc.)

i know my scores arent great but im confident of putting up a decent show on 21st Nov because i still have time to work on inc my attempts and also my accuracy is on the higher side. this is weakest section so im only looking at clearing the cut-off comfy.

I would like to maximise my VA/RC score. I think im good at it but im making too many errors(30-32 attempts with 10-12errors, all the time) any suggestions?

hope u find this of some use.

[abhimax]

i think there is no need to analyze that much suggested by TIME . bcoz solving those dosent make sense. since in such a pressure cooker situation u wont be able to do it anyway. its better to search easy pic which u have not attempted

abhi

[Evanescence]

The suggestions laid out by TIME is a bit complex. But the bottomline is "Am I able to spot the sitters AND the toughies with good speed?" *Every mock is an indicator to how well or badly one is selecting questions.

So the best way to analyse a paper is to see how many Easy/Medium questions I did not attempt (or most likely 'did not see'). And the next step is to train oneself to be able to spot them. Also if one knows his shortcomings/weaknesses clearly, he/she will be able to easily leave those questions. That is another thing we should all identify. If we do this with max efficiency, the attempts and accuracy automatically increase.

So, clearly define your areas of strength as well as weakness and work on maximising your scores in strong areas and in identifying the tough ones and leaving them without getting stuck.