1) How many attempts you have made? VA- 18, QA-17 to18(1guess),DI -15 to 16

2) Your last mock score? If you are there at http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...tory-2010.html , please provide the link here.

3) How was your experience of the test?smooth

4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing.was expecting DI to be the way it was. 1 ans in QA dint match vid d options for me.
but the paper was 2 damn easy. How can 1 calculate the percentile in such a paper..d chances also gets reduced 2 a great level..

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?

just remain cool.and get ample amount f sleep before coz u hav 2 wait for quite a long tym..

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.

QA- Easiest I hav seen till date.any1 can manage min 15.
VA - moderate.but options in RC ver quite close.
DI - Moderate..I vud hav even rated it easy had it not been for exceptionally long sets..

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
I was more dan tensed 4 dis day nd even tried assessing all d strategies 2 start vid a paper..vat i learnt ws tat just dnt go der vid any pre concieved notions and approach d paper in a way u feel comfortable at tat tym..believe in HIM coz nothin in dis world is stronger dan HIM.

Any post on this thread, not following the format will be deleted.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot:
Veltech Center, Avadi, Chennai 10:00am
1) How many attempts you have made?
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...tory-2010.html , please provide the link here.
3) How was your experience of the test?
Good, very well organized.
4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI Caselets :shock:
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Mocks should give you a good diea.
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
DI : was moderate - tough, spent around 50 odd mins. :banghead:
VA : God knows how it went,Had a few SC, PJ etc. seemed easy but you never know:nono::nono:
7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Try and Use the mark up tool for RCs, its quite good.


PUYs, please lemme know, what would be a good attempt range for a 99 above percentile on todays paper ! :cheers::clap:

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: MLR Institute of Technology ,Hyderabad. 20 Nov, 2010 10 AM

1) How many attempts you have made? OA-40-41
DI- 11
QA- 10-11
VA 19 (fingers croosed on accuracy )
2) Your last mock score? NA

3) How was your experience of the test? The overall experience was good.. the prometric system was really oraganised and was happening smoothly.

4) What was the surprise element for you? Nothing

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better? Nothing special and new if you are used to online mocks

6) Your overall analysis of the exam.
QA section was easy and the concepts asked were jus basic.. I need to work hard on them.
VA section had very tricky RC questions where all the options looked similar... Rest were very doable

DI-It was on the tougher side.
Also had some sitters....One q LR qns were pretty easy

ATB to those who are about to give their cat.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Delhi schoolof professional studies, rohini delhi , 20 Nov, 2010 10 AM

1) How many attempts you have made? OA-38-39
DI- 12:shock:
QA- 14-15
VA 12 (fingers croosed on accuracy )
2) Your last mock score? 65-91 @ Promock at CL
3) How was your experience of the test? The overall expeience ws good.. the prometric system was really oraganised and was happening smoothly.
4) What was the surprise element for you? The LR DI section was difficult as told by puys earlier and as it ws my first cat (or ne b school exam) was a bit nervous to solve them..

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better? Nothing special and new if u ok with the online mocks... the interface to use is jus the same (the only diff is the cat doesnt show the total number of attempts so u hav to count it )

6) Your overall analysis of the exam.
the QA section was easy and the concepts asked were jus basic.. so jus brush up your basics and qa would be cakewal\kl for atlest cracking 12 ques
VA section had very tricky RC questions where all the options looked similar... so had to devote some extra time reading them again and agian
.. The PJs were simple to attempt

DI- This was the toughest nut to crack...the questions were of one whole page and conatined only one question.. so was time consuming..:banghead:

Also had some sitters bt i had dne 2 ques wrong in nervousness which jus clicked when came out out.. so hold ur nerve guys..

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.

keep ur legs in control or u mite hit the electricity switch beside the table as i did.. thankfully it ws before the paper started...

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Garden City College, Bangalore. 20th Nov.10AM

1) How many attempts you have made?

QA-13 DI-13 VA-14

2) Your last mock score?
Did not attempt many mocks this year.
3) How was your experience of the test?
Smooth. Although the prometic guys took away almost everything(including my jacket and handkerchief)(yes u read it right )

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI- although there was a lot of talk of it being lengthy it was tougher than i expected.

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Nothing to say that has not been written already. Probably not reaching early to the center would be advised.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA - It easily had 6-8 sitters..The overall level could be rated as easy.Any who was well prepared could easily attempt 16-18 here. I have messed up this.:oops:

DI - This is easily going to be the deciding factor of CAT 2010. With it being reported as easy during initial days and now it being suddenly calculation intensive , im not sure about the reactions that will come out once the results are declared.
Overall this section was very lengthy. I got stuck in some age question which had 4 questions and finally could not do it.

VA - Never been my forte actually so cannot really comment, but the paper was a nice balance of RCs/PJs/Sentence Completion/Grammar

I personally felt I could have done better had I been in practice . Work-ex took a toll on me and had practically just woke up and given the exam. Hope to have a better 2011.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Everonn, Chennai, Nov 20 - 10 AM slot

1) How many attempts you have made?
QA-12 (1 sure wrong due to mis-selection of option just before end-time)
DI-11
VA-15
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at, please provide the link here.
Varied from 70 to 96 all the season.
3) How was your experience of the test?
Very smooth, Felt very comfortable at every stage of test right from starting.
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Relax n feel confident.
Go thro' the tutorial properly.
Use of highlighter (yellow on selecting text) can come handy with RC.s.
And on 'review' page, double clicking any question will take u to that question, and from there u can traverse next or previous normally.


6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA - easy to moderate. average preparation wd guarantee 9-10 q.s
Overall 12 could be very comfortably done.
DI - easy. but long passages i wd say!!
A q doesn't deserve so much reading.. anyhow, no worries, coz everyone is gonna face this. so %iles wd be normalized.
any about 6-7 were ok.
VA - moderate

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Everonn Education Limited, Chennai, 20th November 2010, 10 am

1) How many attempts you have made? 41-42.... QA 14-15 VA 15-16 :clap:DI 10-11 :banghead:

2) Your last mock score?
78-92.... varies all the time

3) How was your experience of the test?
It was good. My centre was good, everything was provided and i was very comfortable.

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI, DI, DI (Actually it wasn't a surprise because i already knew it was gonna be tough thanks to all puys!! U guys made my day :cheers:)

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Just be calm and cool . Dont study in the last minute. Keep urself free for two days. Watch a movie.. Thats what i did, went for harry potter the previous day... it made my day:clap:... i was damn cool Come early. Turn off ur monitor during the 2 hour waiting period (or prepare urself to get a massive headache ) and make sure to use the loo 30 minutes before ur test. Make use of the highlight option for the comprehension passages.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
VA- i started with VA cuz its my strongest section. Even DI is my strongest section ( I'll come to that later :shock:). It was very easy. there were 2 FIB of which one was a bit tough. RC s were very easy, though one passage i had to read twice to get the answers. I loved it so much... Wish there were 20 more VA questions . I took 35 minutes to complete it. There were FIB, PJ, PC and homonyms.

QA- This is kinda my weakest section though i'm very good in maths . However it was very easy. There were 5 sitters, the remaining questions required some calculations. Geometry questions were a bit tough. But u could answer all 20 questions provided u had 60 minutes time :wow:. I enjoyed answering them so much that i forgot to see the time... with just 35 minutes left i decided to go to the DI section. :shock:

DI- :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: Biggest mistake is that i just left 35 minutes for it. There were some easy questions here but the passages were so long and there were unneeded information. I read the questions first as mentioned by the u guys, thank u so much for that :cheers:. Managed to attempt 9 questions of which im sure all are right. There was a bar chart diagram with different colors in it, i couldnt see anything from it, it made me blind... so guys watch out for those questions I noticed 3 questions which didnt have the correct option i didnt know if i should answer them or not. however i did answer one or two of them.... could anyone tell me what i should do to inform prometric that the question is wrong?. i'm damn sure they are wrong.. those two questions were so easy that even a fourth grader could answer them!! Total attempt 10-11 im sure 9 are right ( can anyone tell me that if attempts are enuf to get a good percentile???)

Unfortunately there were no questions related to harry potter and the deathly hallows!! :wow:

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
There were 2-3 questions without the right options in DI..... Will i get marks for attempting them???? Did anyone else face the same problem???

anyways all the best guys
time to dooze off

: !!! ..... Hey all ...... This is Amrit ... a brand new pagal here !!!!!! Greetingsss !!!!
It has been an year or so that I joined PagalGuy .... but never posted anything or never participated in any discussions on the forum .... But today that the D-day had arrived and my CAT is done .. I thought of posting my experience here .......

PS : My exam wasnt so good ... U can expect this post to be a sort of confidence booster to u if u are feeling de-motivated or else it may be just useless to read all what I have to write ova here ; if you are a real champ and are expecting to read some good things on CAT ova here ...

Writing this post for : All the other pagal's like me ... who went with highh hopes ... but ultimately ended with fluking the exam like anythingg ... .. Personally , I dint find any post stating that the exam wasnt good ... we messed up .. dint make it .. cudnt do it .. etc things ...
However CAT for everybody cant be so good I suppose ... There'll be many people like me .. who sit daily .. read reviews of all good champs who have rocked their exams... saying that, Wow ! We are done .. calls are sure and blaah blaahh ... .... :banghead: ......
So .. just thought of writing my pathetic experience ... so that maybe , others who fluked their paper .. dun get so de-motivated as I got yesterdayy ...
Here's Re-stating ... Guys ... Read this post only if you are looking for some kindaa moral support after getting demotivated after having given the exam or prior to exam ....


MY EXPERIENCE : Pathetic ....
I reached Indo-global college of engineering , Chandigarh -- my test centre on time and was asked to wait half an hour till the entry took place .. .. after that there was a check-in and the photo identification process which was all done by about 8:45 am ... I was asked to be seated in the lab by 9 : 30 am ....
I dint know where to wander .. I had no friends accompanying .. and there were no seats to sit ... I dint want to go alone in the garden to sit there on the grass ... So i just kindaa walked around here and there .. and nowhere .. Anyhow, the time passed ; tutorial was done .. and at 10 am, my exam kicked off ! ..
I was confident , relaxed. I knew I went there with prepration and wasnt giving it for a time paas or something .. and I was S.E.R.I.O.U.S ! I told myself.. "Here we go , Let's see" ...

MY TEST , THE FIRST FEW MINUTES -- The 1st thing was DI ... I saw the first question to be of the length of an RC ... .. I wanted to start with VA so landed on VA section ... was spotting the RC .... there were 3 RC's .. 3 minutes gone .. I was seeing .. what am I gona atempt first ....
I landed on an RC following 4 questions .... started reading it .... But .. nothing was going inside my head ... 6 minutes gone .... NO ATTEMPT ... and I thought I shud better let it go .. beacuse I wasnt able to get anything written in the RC and then thought it wud be simply useless to answer those inference based questions which were based on the RC that I wasnt realy able to understand .. :splat:

NEXT 40 MINUTES -- Next I landed onto some EU based questions and solved about 4 or 5 of em .. but my speed was really slow I felt ... .. I looked and tried all questions from 40 till 60 (MY FIRST MISTAKE) but solved only 4 or 5 from EU and 4 or 5 approx from RC .. that's it .... 45 - 50 minutes gone .. and my VA was almost over ... I had just 8 or 10 attempts and I told myself .. I cant do much about it now ! It's over . SLOW SPEED and then wasting time on Rechecking my answers --
MY SECOND MISTAKE :banghead:

NEXT pathetic MINUTES -- I thought I ll take up DI on 2nd, but dunno how and why landed up doing Quant :oops:
I was wandering with review button tryingg to see what now ?! so many minutes over ... and VA ;; my strongest section just had 8 - 10 attempts and nothing of quant seemed to get into my head .. I was trying but not able to reach to any answer or conclusion .. I just had 2 attempts and I realised I cant do anything else now ... except of tukke maaaroing or trying my hands at DI now... -- Gettingg PANIC -- THIRD MISTAKE :banghead:

WITH ABOUT 35 - 40 MINUTES REMAINING -- I started with DI ... MAN !! ... Kya data's the !! Was tough !! Meri to lagg gayi .... pehle hi haalat kharaab thi itni ! Anyhow .. I solved few easy ones in LR ... And I cudnt help myself much ..... I had about 8 attempts with 15 minutes remaining ..... I went to review button and counted my attempts ....about 17 or 18 in total that's it ......

LAST 15 MINUTES -- All I knew was ke ab kuch nai ho sakta ... thode attempt badhaane chaiye agar ho saken to .... Went back to quant ... 3-4 tukke maare and total 6 or 7 were my total atempts in that section .. and I was done ... Last 2 minutes remained ... Went back again to Review .. counted ... 22- 23 attempt kiye the .... One last minute left .. I opened with a question of VA and by the time I was going to mark it ... MY TIME WAS UP ... Really in a Numb state I asked myself ,
Is it really done ? Over ?????? That was allll ?????


AFTER MY EXAM -- Quite obvious , I was really disheartened and really disappointed .... Came back home .. switched off my cell .. dint reply to anybody and just cried the whole evening ... I couldnt be so BAD ... Man .. I had worked hard for it . ... I was feeling more than down But ........... IT WAS DONE ...... and IT was OVER .... Nothing could be done now . Thats all .

WHAT NOW -- Ab kya ? kuch bi nai. Jo hona tha wo ho chuka .. rona dhona bhi hogya ... bacha hai kuch to doosre exams .... ya fir agla saal ....... All that can be done now is wait for other exams and give my best shots at them ... otherwise ... ALL IS WELL ... Will gear up with it once again .... !!!!!! Finally now i will put some smilies here :clap:




1) How many attempts you have made? q-07 di-08 va-08 ov-23

2) Your last mock score? In simcats they fluctuated like anything from -- 40-80%ile

3) How was your experience of the test? I wonder If I was in reality or some dream ....

4) What was the surprise element for you? DI was damn tough ... not at all expected and Quant.. mujh se to solve nai hua... baaki champs and all ka opinion to har baar hi different hota hai...

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better? Just manage your time ... if U fail at that .. bas fir meri tarah reh jaaoge bhai ..... :

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. -- Moderate to TOUGH
DI was tough ... Very lengthy. Many casellets were having 1 question only but a big data to solve beforehand. Quant ka to NO comment ... bakwaas tha .. number system se kuch aaya hi nai .. my all hopes were on that only. VA was ok kinds .. RC's were a bit tough .. EU was relative easy but again .. tricky!

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us. Naaa. Nothing left .

BEFORE SIGNING OFF -- All what I wud say is that guys .... If like me, U too fluke yur exam..feel dishearten and get across a feeling which yells out loud to you .... that that's it !... FinISh .. No good hopes now.. Then remind yourself that .......... THERE IS LIFE BEYOND CAT ..... Take the other papers ... If still nothing goes well ..... then it's time to pick yurself again and try once more with a smile on yur face !!!! And trust me ... Hiding yur tears behind yur smile is quite some ART and it is quite an experience in itself .... !!!!

CAT's beauty is -- either it 'll take u so up that U ' ll feel yurself as if u have conquered the world !!! or else it'll drag u so down and spank u so hard that U ll doubt if u'll ever get up again ..... But fight with it .. and try to spank it back !!!!! .....

Cheers Budds !!! .. Sorry for long post ! hehehe .....
-- AMRIT Ammu !!!!

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CAT Centre, Date and Slot: HYD 20th Nov mornin 10 am

1) How many attempts you have made? 45-48

2) Your last mock score? 70-93 @time

3) How was your experience of the test? Good

4) What was the surprise element for you? many logical reasoning Q's

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better? Nothing special

6) Your overall analysis of the exam.

QA- Easy,Verbal- Moderate ,DI- Moderate

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.

Doing QA in less time might be useful for DI

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: RCM, Bhubaneswar, 10 am

1) How many attempts you have made? 43-45

2) Your last mock score?
Ranging from 69 - 95. Avg may be 89-90.

3) How was your experience of the test?
Entire experience minus DI was good.

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI being "what the hell" and QA being too easy

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Go through the tutorial properly. Make use of review button. No need to keep on pressing forward or backward button repeatedly. It shall waste your time.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA - Easy. I also felt 1 question had a wrong answer and left that.
DI - :banghead::banghead::wow::|:shock::splat::shocked::nono:
VA - Moderate to difficult.

I attempted VA first (That's my strongest section). I had to think a lot in many questions which consumed time. Attempted around 18 here.
Then moved to QA and went on doing questions smoothly.:clap:
Attempted around 16 here.
Then moved to DI with around 40mins in hand(). Got so scared seeing the questions that attempted an easy question thrice!!
Managed to do around 10 questions only and not even sure about all of them.

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Please do a proper time management. I thought of attempting all questions in VA and QA since I was able to solve them and so was left with no time for DI, which required the maximum.

I hope the normalization thing works properly, else DI is going to screw me.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot:SONARPUR-KOLKATA ,20-11-10,10:00AM

1) How many attempts you have made? QA:13-15 VA: 15-17, DI :8-10

2) Your last mock score? PRETTY INCONSISTANT-46-94% ILE( TIME AIMCAT)

3) How was your experience of the test? CANDID START WITH LOTS OF DISTRACTION ON LATTER PHASE DUE TO INADEQUATE SITTING SPACE.

4) What was the surprise element for you?I COULD ATTEMPT MORE QA THEN DI

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?DON'T EXPECT FROM CENTER PPL.....THINGS ARE STRICTLY PROFESSIONAL.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.QA=MODERATE,VA=MODERATE,DI=NO COMMENTS!!!!

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us:I DONT KNOW Y SUCH CASE LETS ARE FRAMED IF SINGLE QSTNS ARE TO BE ASKED.TRY TO MANAGE THE TIME WELL, QA:LAST MINUTE BASICS REVISION CAN SAVE LOTS OF TIME.
BEST OF LUCK

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: MeritTrac Services Pvt Ltd. - Bangalore, 20-11-10, 10:00AM

1) How many attempts you have made?
OA - 50
VA-17 QA- 17 DI - 16
2) Your last mock score?
Last mock score- 96.xx. Varied from 70.xx to 98.xx

3) How was your experience of the test?
It was awesome. The centre where i wrote the test was really really good. It was very well managed. Kudos to the invigilators and prometric . :clap:
The 90min long wait would have been a pain in the ass but we were allowed to sit outside the testing area till 9.30 and we could talk to people
Helped me calm my nerves.

4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing particularly surprising. I felt that one question in DI did not have the correct answer in the options. Apart from that everything else was smooth.

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
If you have given mocks then nothing to worry. Try to make use of the highlighting option in RCs which can be really helpful.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA- Very easy. I could attempt 17 questions at one go in 46-48 mins which is very quick for me. Normally i take an hour to do the same number. 2 questions i guessed. So fingers crossed for them
VA- Moderate. I ain't that good in verbal so people who are really good in verbal might feel this section to be a cake-walk. One 3 question RC i left unattempted it was a bit twisted. Apart from that FIB was easy. PC was a bit dicey. 2 options looked close. PJs were of moderate difficulty. The other 2 RCs were also of moderate difficulty. Did 16 questions at one go in 32-33mins.
DI- Moderate. This is my strength but i felt some DI caselets were a bit tricky. LR was easy for me. There was one caselet which had about 250-300 odd words, i skipped it. I guess it has been the case in most of the days this year. Did 13 questions at one go in 40mins. Then came back in the last 10 minutes to do 3 more questions. Very doubtful on these questions though. I feel now that should have left them unattempted. :banghead:
Also there was one question for which i didnt find answer in the options. Anyone else felt the same?
OA - Moderate. CAT gods can score 55 attempts at the very least.
I will have to bank on the accuracy now. Hoping for the best!

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
For all those who are yet to give the test - All the best! Just be confident of your preparation and give it your best shot.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot:
Chennai,Everonn
1) How many attempts you have made?
DI-11 :banghead:,QA-15 ,VA-14:|
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-and-related-discussion/cat-and-related-discussion/cat-an...tory-2010.html , please provide the link here. Ranged between 50 to 90...95+ in one AIMCAT..

3) How was your experience of the test?
One cannot ask more from Prometric.. Purely professional.. Except that AC was not working, proctors were very friendly..
4) What was the surprise element for you?

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
You need an Image capture to capture the DI graphs and put it on paper..
Otherwise tough to crack..

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
DI : Started with LRDI(My strength) : Solved a 2 Qn sitter LR in 3 mins.. Could have solved in a minute..but nerves.. But those were the only 2 sitters i found.. DI's were :banghead::banghead:.. I dont know whether questions are wrong or I was wrong or options were wrong.. somehow i felt it is wrong to spend time here.. solved few single LR questions.. but managed only 7 Qns in 50mins :banghead:..Left others for a comeback..
QA :(My nemesis) Turned out to be damn easy(for me atleast)..May be because I have been preparing ONLY Quants All through this month... Attempted 15 questions in 45 mins.. I am sure all are correct..For those who are strong in QA,they wud have had a 20/20 hit.
VA :Left with only 40 mins.. Did all PJs,SCs,Word usages.. (Except PJs all had close options..)Left with only 20 mins..Just attempted a 4Qn RC in 10mins..
LAST 10 MINS : Was desperate to attempt more in LRDI as i was not sure of 1 or 2 that i attempted already..Solved 4 more in 10 mins.. 2 guesses..

Overall :
DI - Damn tough.. Only 3 sitter qns out of all 20..
QA - Easy(Watch out for some speed breakers, I jumped outta it)
VA - Too many close options.. I didnt even care to read 3Qn RCs,2Qn RCs..Neither did i have time nor the questions seemed easy in those..All were inferential nature..

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
In LRDI , I am sure one LR question didnt have right option and it seemed One DI caselet itself was wrong.. 3 out of 4 options were right.. What to mark :banghead:.. Well I might have missed some info or the question might be wrong.both are possible.

QA - Qns well spreadout.. Learn basic concepts..That's more than enough..Had 3 Geometry Qns.. But were simple..

VA - Options too close.. Will need an expert to choose between the two..I am not the right person to comment on it..

Waiting for Jan 12.. Normalisation should consider these varying difficulties across sections else we are :wow:specially DI...

Next IIFT,NMAT....

Hi All,

Wishing everyone best of luck!


CAT Centre, Date and Slot: ICFAI,Bangalore,Morning Slot

1) How many attempts you have made?
QA-15:banghead:
DI-17:cheers:
VA-17(2 Guesses)
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at, please provide the link here.
Varied from 80 to 99 all the season.
3) How was your experience of the test?
Very smooth, Felt comfortable at every stage of test right from starting.
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing, Same as told by other puys
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
I started with QA and for the first 10mins:banghead: I was not able to solve the 3 questions I encountered. I panicked and got frustated. Then moved on to next questions and were pretty easy. After solving 4,5 Q`s I came to normal situation and the rest of the exam was smooth.The first 3 sitters were doable and deceptive. They were deliberately kept to deceive the rest of the paper. Dont get panic at any stage.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA-Easy to moderate Doable,3Qs Tough Rather I can say Sitters. In any normal situation they are pretty much solvable in 2 to 3 mins but considering the pressure in the exam, better not to waste much time on them.Wasted first 10 mins and overall devoted 45mins.
DI- I skipped one caselet completely. Solved 17 Q`s. Easy to moderate. The data was huge and the questions asked dont involve all the data presented. So eliminate options rather than solving caselets.Overall devoted 50mins.
VA-Attempted 17. I found 1 PJ very ambiguous. The pattern is same as told before RCs-4,3,2,2Scs,2FIBs,2SCs
Devoted 40mins. VA is my nemesis. I gave 20 to 25 mins to RCs and attempted 3,3,2. Over all felt I can clear cutoff.
7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Dont get panic at any stage as some questions are deliberately given to deceive you, rather some may fall in to pit with them.
CAT is completed. Time to Chill:cheers:
All the best puys.:clap:

Hi All,

Wishing everyone best of luck!


CAT Centre, Date and Slot: ICFAI,Bangalore

1) How many attempts you have made?
QA-15
DI-17
VA-17(2 Guesses)
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at , please provide the link here.
Varied from 80 to 99 all the season.
3) How was your experience of the test?
Very smooth, Felt comfortable at every stage of test right from starting.
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing, Same as told by other puys
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
I started with QA and for the first 10mins I was not able to solve the 3 questions I encountered. I panicked and got frustated. Then moved on to next questions and were pretty easy. After solving 4,5 Q`s I came to normal situation and the rest of the exam was smooth.The first 3 sitters were doable and deceptive. They were deliberately kept to deceive the rest of the paper. Dont get panic at any stage.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA-Doable,3Qs Tough Rather I can say Sitters. In any normal situation they are pretty much solvable in 2 to 3 mins but considering the pressure in the exam, better not to waste much time on them.Wasted first 10 mins and overall devoted 45mins.
DI- I skipped one caselet completely. Solved 17 Q`s. Easy to moderate. The data was huge and the questions asked dont involve all the data presented. So eliminate options rather than solving caselets.Overall devoted 50mins.
VA-Attempted 17. I found 1 PJ very ambiguous. RCs-4,3,2,2Scs,2FIBs,2SCs
Devoted 40mins. VA is my nemesis. I gave 20 to 25 mins to RCs and attempted 3,3,2. Over all felt I can clear cutoff.
7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Dont get panic at any stage as some questions are deliberately given to deceive you, rather some may fall in to pit with them.
CAT is completed. Time to

After reading the posts by others for 16 slots,
today is my time!!!

CAT Centre, Date and Slot:

Sri Balaji Society, Pune -20/11/2010, 10:00

1) How many attempts you have made?
DI-14
VA-14/15
QA-14
Overall-42/43

2) Your last mock score?
AIMCATs ranging from 65 to 96!!! :drinking:

3) How was your experience of the test?
Very Good, thanks a ton to Prometric!!! :clap:

4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
If attending mocks regularly, it shouldnt be the problem!!! :thumbsup:

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.

DI- As usual, my first section! I was expecting almost no or very few questions from LR but the case was different today, around 6-7 questions on LR which i always love to solve and solved them easily!!! Though some questions were like RC passages and contained only one question, good concentration gives answer in first read only!! Solved one DI caselet which had 3 questions !!!
VA- Weakest section!!
Quite confused in first RC (had 2 questions in it), but then moved on when solved 2nd RC having 4 questions confidently!!!
PCs, FIBs, PJs, multiple usage were mixed in each other!! :-o

QA- Though I am good in this one, i was stuck at some questions, then realised it!! :nono:
After that, came across some easy questions and solved 5-6 of them within 6-8 mins!!

At the end, mismanaged 20 minutes, tried to solve some quant but at the end, solved only 2 from DI!!! :nono::sneaky:

Overall, tension hai thoda!!! :banghead::sneaky::drinking:
7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
ALL THE VERY BEST for next slots!!! :cheerio::cheerio::cheerio:

DONT GET STUCK ON ANY QUESTION!!!
Sab Kuchh on Normalisation!!! :lookround::lookround::lookround:

Next is IIFT...!

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Everonn , chennai. 20th nov , 10.00 am

1) How many attempts you have made?46 - 48 not sure


2) Your last mock score? varied randomly
3) How was your experience of the test?good. Great work done by prometric.

4) What was the surprise element for you?Nothing. Expected DI to be lengthy.

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better? nothing

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
VA- very tricky. Infact, for a few questions all the options seemed correct. God knows my accuracy here
QA- Easy is the word. I am not great @ QA. But i was able to do well.
DI- phew.. wat a section... By the time i finished reading a set, 2 min was gone. By the time i started understanding the set another 4 min was gone. and i was too nervous so i was continuously skipping from one set to the other. But a few sitters are there. somehow i gained confidence and ended up solving a few.

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Do not lose ur cool @ any time during the exam. That is the key.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot:
Everonn Gurgaon
1) How many attempts you have made?
QA-17
DI-13-14:banghead:
Va-16
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...tory-2010.html , please provide the link here.
N/A

3) How was your experience of the test?
Very Smooth

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI. though it was not that surprising but still it made me felt low.:shock:

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
No tips required ....all are computer friendly

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA-Easy. Anyone with a better understanding of basics could attempt all.

DI- Shocking. Lost all my confidence here. Caselets were too lengthy although solvable but required patience which I didnt maintain. There were so much descriptions followed by only one question.:banghead:

VA- Will call it moderate to tough. God knows about my accuracy.

All in all it was a gud paper except for the DI part.

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Keep your cool.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot:

GURU NANAK Institute of Management, Delhi-20/11/2010, 10:00

1) How many attempts you have made?
QA-17
VA-18
DI-10

2) Your last mock score? If you are there at http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-an...tory-2010.html , please provide the link here.

3) How was your experience of the test?
Good
4) What was the surprise element for you?
nothing
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
DI-tough
QA- easy
VA-moderate
7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Kolkata EIILM, 20-Nov-2010, 10AM

1) How many attempts you have made?
VA-19, DI - 12, QA - 16-17. OA-47/48.

2) Your last mock score? Last 5 AIMCATS : 98+

3) How was your experience of the test?
Good.

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI was out of this world. (Strictly my opinion)

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
just like any other mock.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.

QA- Very Easy. One question didnt have the correct answer in the options. couple of very lengthy questions. left those.

VA - Moderate. RCs were easy to read but some questions had close options. Vocab questions were too close for comfort. easy PCs and PJs.

DI - Very Difficult. I have always been weak in DI but I was shocked today. Line graph had three shades of red (I am colour blind:banghead::banghead:). Even a LR set halted me today(I am usually good at these). There were both 2 question and 3 question sets. cudnt make head or tail out of a 3 question one. attempted 12 over all out of which I am not sure about 2.

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.
Best of luck to those who are yet to take CAT.

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Pune, 20-Nov-2010, 10AM

1) How many attempts you have made?
VA-16, DI - 13, QA - 15

2) Your last mock score?

3) How was your experience of the test?
VA was confusing. Very close options in RC. PJs were very easy.

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI. You have to read a lot while doing DI. Very lengthy writeup and just one question :(

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Keep the keyboard away.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA- Easy
VA - moderate
DI - moderate

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.

Hi puys this is Mudit from the land of IIM A



CAT Centre: LJIMS

Date and Slot: Ahmedabad, 20-Nov-2010, 10AM

1) How many attempts you have made?
VA-17, DI - 13, QA - 13

2) Your last mock score?: In the range of 74-91

3) How was your experience of the test?

V.A: 1 RC was tough. Rest like daiict said the options were quite close. Pretty doable in the end but the key wud be ofcourse how well you hit the mark in such close options. PJs and rest were easy. It took me 35 min to finish this section.

Q.A: It was moderate considering the fact I wasn't well prepared. I found like 5-6 easily doable questions (sitters).

D.I: Tough and lengthy.


4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI was insanely lengthy. 1 set was outright not doable.

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Solve lots of mocks before attempting the CAT. Build up online reading speed by reading news and other articles online.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA- Easy-Moderate
VA - Moderate
DI - Moderate-Tough

In the end this depends on your level of preparation.


Now I move on to other exams! Will wait for the results!

CAT Centre, Date and Slot: Pune, 20-Nov-2010, 10AM

1) How many attempts you have made?
VA-16, DI - 13, QA - 15

2) Your last mock score?

3) How was your experience of the test?
VA was confusing. Very close options in RC. PJs were very easy.

4) What was the surprise element for you?
DI. You have to read a lot while doing DI. Very lengthy writeup and just one question :(

5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Keep the keyboard away.

6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, sections etc.
QA- Easy
VA - moderate
DI - moderate

7) Any other query or something you would like to share with us.