[nefritity]

hey thanx for replying guys.
few days back i had appeared appeared for ims simcat and i scored 14 in maths and 18 in di.are ims simcats comparitively simpler??i hope not ...becoz it really cheered me up!!. my main problem is number of attempts. actually english is not much of a problem. i goofed up a little in rc today but generally its quite decent. with maths i have an awsome accuracy. at the most i get 1 or 2 questions wrong but i have a major problem with the number of attempts. with di the prob is both attempts and accuracy.
ya about logical reasoning. well u know logical raesoning is my saviour in di. my problem in di is calculation .thats i keep on praying for lots of LR questions in di.

[azazelin]

Why does everyone say not to take more than 2 mocks a week ? why not take a mock test everyday as long as you have enough mock papers with ya ? very confusing...wouldnt it be good if we analyse mocks everyday ?

Originally Posted by devilbemyguide

will u solve/attempt a difficult problem in the actual cat???

Answer: No

so why waste ur precious time on deliberately practicing difficult problems..... make sure that ur grasp of the basics is good... and learn application of those basics....

a mock a day does not make sense.... 2 mocks a week will do....analyse them properly.....

about qa.... pick out 5 topics and do them thoroughly....

cheers

puneet

[deepu]

Originally Posted by azazelin

Why does everyone say not to take more than 2 mocks a week ? why not take a mock test everyday as long as you have enough mock papers with ya ? very confusing...wouldnt it be good if we analyse mocks everyday ?

It will be good if u analyse mocks every day..but it has very little affect.Because whenever u write a mock,u have to analyse in completely which may take approx 5-6 hrs..Then after analysing u have to jolt down u r weakness ,strengths etc etc ...after this u have to work upon the weakness and should improve in ur weak areas.. u see all this will take 2-3 days minimum ...and without working out all this just writing mocks and analysing them wont do any good..soo at max only 3 mocks per week ...

Hope it helps...

Cheers,
Deepu..

[azazelin]

hope am not being insane...but what kinda analysis would take 2-3 days ? and what kinda person would need to jolt down his weakness 'n' strength ? (wouldnt they have it in their minds and planning accordingly shoud'nt take more than a couple of minutes for each situation !) I agree that analysing each and every question that ya got wrong or did not attempt will definitely take 4-5 hours and then planning on how to do better time management would take an hour i guess...then probably one may want to refresh some basics in the topic in which one feels weak ! am i missing out on something ? unless someone's working this should be possible in a day..right ? maybe am missing out on some thing ! lemme know guys...am gonna try this from next weekend onwards...got around 25 previous years time mock cats lying around...btw, this was suggested to me by a IIMA grad who passed out this year ! neways, practices and opinions differ for each one of us...i just raised this question cause there were too many under the same idea that "a mock a day aint good for health (read CAT)" !

Originally Posted by deepu

It will be good if u analyse mocks every day..but it has very little affect.Because whenever u write a mock,u have to analyse in completely which may take approx 5-6 hrs..Then after analysing u have to jolt down u r weakness ,strengths etc etc ...after this u have to work upon the weakness and should improve in ur weak areas.. u see all this will take 2-3 days minimum ...and without working out all this just writing mocks and analysing them wont do any good..soo at max only 3 mocks per week ...

Hope it helps...

Cheers,
Deepu..

[deepu]

Originally Posted by azazelin

hope am not being insane...but what kinda analysis would take 2-3 days ? and what kinda person would need to jolt down his weakness 'n' strength ? (wouldnt they have it in their minds and planning accordingly shoud'nt take more than a couple of minutes for each situation !) I agree that analysing each and every question that ya got wrong or did not attempt will definitely take 4-5 hours and then planning on how to do better time management would take an hour i guess...then probably one may want to refresh some basics in the topic in which one feels weak ! am i missing out on something ? unless someone's working this should be possible in a day..right ? maybe am missing out on some thing ! lemme know guys...am gonna try this from next weekend onwards...got around 25 previous years time mock cats lying around...btw, this was suggested to me by a IIMA grad who passed out this year ! neways, practices and opinions differ for each one of us...i just raised this question cause there were too many under the same idea that "a mock a day aint good for health (read CAT)" !

yaa u r missing .... if u do like that might be ur time-management skills will improve but nothin else..see if at all u find that u r weak in geometry.u got 3 geometry ques wrong..then wat will u do??? is revising funda's enufff???
will u do geometry ques well in the next test?? similarly u saw that u r accuracy in PJ's is 50 % . soo wat will u do ???wat funda's will u revise for PJ??? u need to spend 1 -2 days with the topic..do various typs of probs and get in sync to solving such ques...that will take time.....in case of PJ thr r no rules....just do 50-60 and u will get in sync...all these will take time.........hence those 2-3 days gap...

like this if u give 15 mocks..u will be weeding out weakareas and will be improving on that ...after which u shud concentrate mostly on time management..for which listing out u r strenghts is very imp...

[azazelin]

unless one has been solving problems relating to basics for atleast a month now !

Originally Posted by deepu

yaa u r missing .... if u do like that might be ur time-management skills will improve but nothin else..see if at all u find that u r weak in geometry.u got 3 geometry ques wrong..then wat will u do??? is revising funda's enufff???
will u do geometry ques well in the next test?? similarly u saw that u r accuracy in PJ's is 50 % . soo wat will u do ???wat funda's will u revise for PJ??? u need to spend 1 -2 days with the topic..do various typs of probs and get in sync to solving such ques...that will take time.....in case of PJ thr r no rules....just do 50-60 and u will get in sync...all these will take time.........hence those 2-3 days gap...

like this if u give 15 mocks..u will be weeding out weakareas and will be improving on that ...after which u shud concentrate mostly on time management..for which listing out u r strenghts is very imp...

[devilbemyguide]

Originally Posted by azazelin

Why does everyone say not to take more than 2 mocks a week ? why not take a mock test everyday as long as you have enough mock papers with ya ? very confusing...wouldnt it be good if we analyse mocks everyday ?

whoa.....u r certainly free to do a mock a day dude.... but there r several ill effects attached to that....

1. u may lose interest in doing mocks(it happens sometimes...then u lose interest during the actual cat)

2. u do so many mocks that u hit ur peak early and are on the way down when the actual cat arrives...( it is a normal distribution u know.... the performance)

3. u may be left with no time for improvement ( u keep doing the same mistakes everyday... then analyse them... but dont give urself time to work on them...)

4. Besides...I really do feel that a mock is a 4 hour affair...( 2 hrs taking it and 2 hrs analysis)... dont u think u have better work to do than spend 4 hrs everyday doing a mock..(i.e. when r u going to relax and watch that movie u have been wanting to watch?? )

well... as I have said b4.. to each his opinion...if doing a mock daily gives u a confidence boost...go ahead....

cheers

Puneet

[rider.royal]

add to this that main idea of doing mock is to know your weak areas and improving them and also developing strategy for your strong points. So it is not numbers of mocks that matter, it is getting to develop a good strategy for CAT on D-day. As each one of us has different way to study, so we cant have hard and fast rule for how much Mocks to do each week or(god forbid, day). So it is upto you how much mocks you want to do, till you are getting benefit that it is intended for. :-)

[azazelin]

Originally Posted by devilbemyguide

whoa.....u r certainly free to do a mock a day dude.... but there r several ill effects attached to that....

1. u may lose interest in doing mocks(it happens sometimes...then u lose interest during the actual cat)

2. u do so many mocks that u hit ur peak early and are on the way down when the actual cat arrives...( it is a normal distribution u know.... the performance)

3. u may be left with no time for improvement ( u keep doing the same mistakes everyday... then analyse them... but dont give urself time to work on them...)

4. Besides...I really do feel that a mock is a 4 hour affair...( 2 hrs taking it and 2 hrs analysis)... dont u think u have better work to do than spend 4 hrs everyday doing a mock..(i.e. when r u going to relax and watch that movie u have been wanting to watch?? )

well... as I have said b4.. to each his opinion...if doing a mock daily gives u a confidence boost...go ahead....

cheers

Puneet

well dude, i dont know ! i aint improving at all ! after the 9 mocks cats i have taken, i managed to clear the cutoff only once in only one section (qa) ! two weeks after that i am back to square one, did not clear cutoffs in any...am sure that it is not because of lack in understanding of the concept, its because of my temperament in that situation...i feel i cannot get used to that atmosphere if the gap between two mocks is too large ! i dont know if you consider this as worth discussing but i really dont wanna mess things up by taking a wrong decision ! please advice...

[apocalypse NOW]

man me 2 used to solve mocks regularly and consistently managed scores ard 50..thn came a big break and now 50 seems a bit too much for me...solved some IMS papers and saw my score graph declining..Really wonder wat do institutes gain by setting papers 2.5 time tougher than CAT?...i guess solving a paper daily dint help at all...started solving section tests and will solve papers every alternate day..tryin out all means and ways...cant afford to give up.. ...

..URS