Dates for registering for paid/free mock cats by various institutes

[amitsultanpuri]

Hi puys,

Sorry probably im posting out of context post. but TIME 0816 was nightmare for me.Pathetic performance . im so sad and gloomy. i was like what the hell is this paper at the time of test. couldnt recall the simple formulae. even got confused between incentre and circumcentre. the VA was like mount everest , Judgement fact questions were complete wash out. Was a very very bad day for me.
I have appeared in CAT before but this year im quite serious . Im working and my office is in Nehru Place Delhi and my residence is ramprastha, near Anand Vihar, Delhi.
Any CAT aspirant who stay around these two places and interested in exchange of MOCK papers as well as combined study please PM me.
we can interact as soon as possible. Even we can form a group, if more people want to join. please PM me.
Hope will get some strong hands to help me out

Regards,
AMIT

[dipen01]

So u mean to say ... the scores of test on this Sunday might determine the discounts they offer..??

What are Countdown Tests..?

[dipen01]

Originally Posted by amitsultanpuri

Hi puys,

Sorry probably im posting out of context post. but TIME 0816 was nightmare for me.Pathetic performance . im so sad and gloomy. i was like what the hell is this paper at the time of test. couldnt recall the simple formulae. even got confused between incentre and circumcentre. the VA was like mount everest , Judgement fact questions were complete wash out. Was a very very bad day for me.
I have appeared in CAT before but this year im quite serious . Im working and my office is in Nehru Place Delhi and my residence is ramprastha, near Anand Vihar, Delhi.
Any CAT aspirant who stay around these two places and interested in exchange of MOCK papers as well as combined study please PM me.
we can interact as soon as possible. Even we can form a group, if more people want to join. please PM me.
Hope will get some strong hands to help me out

Regards,
AMIT

Dont worry boss...I am gonna face the same thing this sunday , havent prepared anything , havent even given CAT before, so i am up for solid shock.. Still i just want to see where i stand...

Well you have already given CAT so you are quite experienced it was just ur bad day nothing else.. Just take a break , regroup and you are ready for another batthe..

[banter]

Indeed. Consider that for the price of every single test at Time you could get yourself a tome on Cat prep.
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[banter]

Originally Posted by dipen01

^^
Thanx for ur opinion...

well plus also i am kinda tight on budget at the moment so TIME is kinda low on my list..
so i was planning for CL + IMS
It would cost me 999 + 1500
Lets see will finalise in couple of days..!!
Any more suggestions are welcomed

Hi,
Indeed. Consider that for the price of every single test at Time you could get yourself a tome on Cat prep.

I don't wish to tread on any toes, but I feel these buggers at Time have got to be kidding - 4500 bucks for 15 odd tests works out to be around 300 odd chips per test. Considering it costs them 1,- buck max. to print each paper - also it definitely takes lesser energy to set unsolvable questions than it does to solve them - IMHO, it really is outlandish what they ask, and more so, what we sheep-like customers are prepared to pay, mostly based on
a misapprehension of seemingly staggering claims in fancy adverts.

If 40,000 + students at Time can garner 750 IIM seats, after paying 19,000,- each, I would suggest that their success ratio is not very greatly
higher that for the test as a whole, more so as a significant number
give the test 'just for fun' ( a fun way to spend a boring Sunday in November, I suppose), without any prep. whatsoever.
[All figures rounded for my convenience ]

Moreover, by offering 'heavy' discounts for the Test Series to people likely
to do well on the test anyway, they enhance their figures even further.
Year for year, this turns into a virtuous circle for them - the figures are bolstered and the fees are raised, and people are even readier to pay in
sufferance.
Amen.

[agrawalansh]

Originally Posted by dipen01

So u mean to say ... the scores of test on this Sunday might determine the discounts they offer..??

What are Countdown Tests..?

The Countdown Tests by Career Forum will be tests which cud be taken home or be given at their centers daily for 10 days, just before the CAT. As far as I remember these tests will start in Nov first week...

[deep_agrawal]

Originally Posted by banter

Hi,
Indeed. Consider that for the price of every single test at Time you could get yourself a tome on Cat prep.

I don't wish to tread on any toes, but I feel these buggers at Time have got to be kidding - 4500 bucks for 15 odd tests works out to be around 300 odd chips per test. Considering it costs them 1,- buck max. to print each paper - also it definitely takes lesser energy to set unsolvable questions than it does to solve them - IMHO, it really is outlandish what they ask, and more so, what we sheep-like customers are prepared to pay, mostly based on
a misapprehension of seemingly staggering claims in fancy adverts.

If 40,000 + students at Time can garner 750 IIM seats, after paying 19,000,- each, I would suggest that their success ratio is not very greatly
higher that for the test as a whole, more so as a significant number
give the test 'just for fun' ( a fun way to spend a boring Sunday in November, I suppose), without any prep. whatsoever.
[All figures rounded for my convenience ]

Moreover, by offering 'heavy' discounts for the Test Series to people likely
to do well on the test anyway, they enhance their figures even further.
Year for year, this turns into a virtuous circle for them - the figures are bolstered and the fees are raised, and people are even readier to pay in
sufferance.
Amen.

A good argument. I visited TIME yesterday. So i would like to bring to fore a few points.

TIME provides 15 AIMCATs + 15 Omets + 5 Mocks + 5 CRTS. Don't exactly remember to full forms, but these are full-length Mocks... So the total comes to 40 tests. And the fees they are charging for non-discounted people is 4250. So that comes to 106.25 bucks per paper...

So altough i agree that the price they are charging is as you said outlandish... but the other options are not much cheaper when you consider the per paper prices...

PS: These are my views. And i am no way advertising TIME. In fact, i am myself not sure i'll join them coz they are charging so high.

[god2be]

I managed to register for TIME full classroom course for Rs.1500 based on CAT'06 performance.

[finatarget_2007]

Originally Posted by god2be

I managed to register for TIME full classroom course for Rs.1500 based on CAT'06 performance.

What was ur percentile dude??coz m still to decide between IMS and TIME. main conflict is tht i dont wanna spoil my all sundays being TIME examinee

[god2be]

Originally Posted by finatarget_2007

What was ur percentile dude??coz m still to decide between IMS and TIME. main conflict is tht i dont wanna spoil my all sundays being TIME examinee

Calls in any of the last two years + a time student in any of the last two years was the criterion for their 90% discount, I believe.