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Originally Posted by cateye Hi !
I'm crackin my head over this. How should I ideally be steering my preps after finishing the basics books? My scores are pathetic despite of the fact that i've been spending about 5-6 hrs a day. Looks like I've not been doing the right things. What are 'CAT like' questions? where do I find them? My attempt rate is very low. (around 45 attempts) so i am ending up with a percentile in the range 77-87. It does not improve no matter what. I'll be very glad if someone could help me in taking my preps ahead in the right direction. I've read a lot of posts before writing here, most of them seem very generalized.
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What you are looking at is the Top-Down approach. U have noticed that your overall attempts are generally low, hence u conclude that your scores are gonna be low. Going by this approach you will most likely conclude that number of attempts is your biggest problem, what could then happen is you will start marking answers which u arent sure of, your attempts may increase but your score wont. I was stuck in a similar kind of a rut last year and never managed to get out in time.
Suggestion :- 1) Look at the problem from the Bottom up approach. If you are doing the basics right you are bound to end up with a good score. None of the toppers actually go into a test thinking "Chalo I will put in atleast 90 attempts and get a score of atleast 65". What these guys do is crack most of the easy and moderate Q's without fail mock after mock. If the mock is tough, they adjust their strategy and time allocation dynamically to get the max out of the paper.
2) Start taking sections from TODAY. After a level doing just the basics wont help, especially in QA. You should be able to recognise what to attempt and what not to attempt. After you are done with a sectional test, take some time off to classify the Q's, there will be some Q's which are totally funda based e.g Numbers based. If u know the funda u can crack it very fast, if you dont u r better off leaving that Q.
3) Make a checklist for urself, something like
a) Are you reading all the Q's in QA?
b) Are you giving some amount of time to every sub section in the paper?
c) Are you exceeding the time limits set by urself?
d) Are you neglecting a particular type of Q's in the mocks? like PJ's in VA, sets in QA, DS in DI
etc
For making this cheklist you can look back on your previous mocks and pick of some points which you feel are very important to your strategy/performance. After giving a mock go through this checklist and see if you are compliant with all the points, if not it means that you are not executing your strategy well. Everyone makes good plans but not everyone executes them to perfection. This checklist approach may not get u a 99.5+ %ile but it can ensure that you donot repeat any goof ups/blunders if used in the right way. As you keep taking tests you can keep on adding points to this.
4) Put yourself under more pressure in sectional tests. In QA if you are currently attempting 15 Q's in 35 mins, aim to attempt 15 Q's in 25 mins by the end of 2-3 weeks. See where you are wasting time and aim to keep that down to a minimum.
You can find a lot more of such points on this forum. Of course all the advice will be general but see how best you can fit it into your strategy.
Do PM me with more details in case you found any of my talk useful. I was scoring in the 80-85 range in mocks last year, this year I am more in the 95 range with a high of 99 and a low of 90, so maybe I can help you out better than some stud who doesnt know what 85%ile feels like.
and the prev years qs give you a fair idea but breaking ur head on
31-08-2005, 02:50 AM
i'm slipping down in verbal... though never my strength, i never had this low accuracy ever...barely managing 50% accu. am wondering if its something wrong with the way I think
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