Date: 3rd Nov, Garden City College Bangalore
Slot:10 AM
Mods: Please delete the post if this thread is strictly meant for the people who have given the test only today. However, I feel I can certainly cool some nerves out there, so posting it here.
1) How many attempts you have made?QA - 21 VA -23
2) Your last mock score?No Mocks. 94%ile in CAT 2010(Writing the %ile for the sake of it. Point is, don't judge my analysis based on my percentile. I am a serial CAT taker and good at analysis
)
3) How was your experience of the test?It's good.
4) What was the surprise element for you?Nothin as such.
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?In the hall, you have to wait for atleast an hour. So, please switch of the monitor as u have to stare and concentrate for the next 3 hours on the screen. Even though, we have a habbit of staring monitor screen for long hours but unders immense pressure and striving hard for concentration it's a different game altogether.
ii) Some centres won't even allow to take your Jackets inside, plus all the halls have AC's. My suggestion is to wear a full sleeves shirt or sweat shirt. Seems not all that important but it does play a major role.
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.Please see below.
7) Any other details or something you would like to share ...Nothing
After seeing the responses of fellow puys, invariably we have the idea of the toughness of the paper. It's almost the same in every paper and it shoudn't change drastically(It can, but it shouldn't. Purely my take
).
The level was same for me too. However, below lies the core analysis that should come handy. I'll try my level best to pour in maximum without violating the 'NDA'
1)
QA/DI: QA has good amount of sitters(and i repeat absolute sitters, u can't get them wrong and thus no preparation needed for the same.), moderate questions and few tough one's.
Many are worried about the so called "obsucre" topics. Don't worry guys, their no. is not very high. The tough ones are those that you really can't answer even if u start preparing few days ahead of ur exam(I did the same but of no use, even if I had knew the topic very well it would taken atleast 5 min to solve it), and about the basic ones I am sure person who is avg. in quant can attempt the same. So
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE OBSCURE TOPICS.DI: From all the previous posts, DI is either calculation intensive or very easy. In either of the case, u can't do anything. If it's very easy you will anyhow solve it and If it's calculation intensive, u can't increase ur calculation speed in a span of 2-3 days. So, again no point in preparing DI too. Just revise basic types of DI sets, just in case u get it.
2) VA: To be very frank, I found it on the easier side. I usually do good in VA but seriously, I didn't find many ambigouos answer. Only point was RC's were tough to comprehend, but the questions were direct. Even if u have the feel of what author is talking about u can mark the correct answer. My suggestion is,
don't leave the RC's just because it tough to comprehend, it might have direct questions like..what is not stated in the passage.. (I am sure we all can mark the correct answer in these type of questions). I'll not write much about the PJ's and Sentence correction as it's of no use. Level of difficult varies and their is no point giving my take on it.
Vocab: Again as I said in DI, Don't worry about VOCAB. Its pure luck, even if u have memorised 10000 words and the one's that come in CAT are not in those 10000, u can't do anything. And if u are lucky enough, with minimum vocab too u can mark the answer.
Trick/Logic in VOCAB based questions: U will have around 8 words (and it's rare that u wouldn't know the meaning of all of them
) in the answer options + the statement where u need to fill in those words. Without even lookin at the options u will have the feel of what shud come in those blanks, plus working with those options and elimination techiques, u can mark the correct answer. Again the point is,
Dont worry about VOCAB, at this point of time u can do nothing about it.LR: It has been easy for almost all the dates and the all the slots.(And again, it shouldn't change much. Again purely my take, it might change).
Just solve 1-2 basic LR of each type and that's it, just to be in touch of it.
BASIC POINT: STOP WORRYING ABOUT VOCAB, DI OR OBSCURE TOPICS IN QUANT. U CAN DO VERY WELL EVEN WITHOUT THESE. BASIC POINT 2: JUST PLAY TO UR STRENTHGS & SOLVE ALL THE EASY QUESTIONS. I have tried to base my analysis irrespective of the DATE, SLOT or the PERSON giving the exam. It took me 50 minutes to write this, even if it helps 5 people out there, I will consider my work done
:).
All the best puys. Chill maaro
If you could attempt the paper again,what would you do differently.
If you could attempt the paper again,what would you do differently.
VA -26 