@katvond said:

@avinashkrjha sir,

what should be the strategy in the last few days in the run-up to CAT?

currently i am focusing more on mocks and revise past cat papers weekly. what would be an ideal strategy in these two weeks before the examďťż?

@rajatpal87 said:

@avinashkrjha tussi great ho sir ... rat k is tym jab koi nhi hota salah dene k liye tb ap milte ho ... kind of pagalguy k SHAHENSHAH - Andheri Raaton me .. SunSaan raaho par ... Since these are the last few days ... to ab VA, LR and DI k liye cat k previous year questions ko practice krna shi hoga .. ya fir ab totally mocks ko hi time du ...??

@greedyanimal said:

what are the minimum no. of questions one must attempt in order to get 85+ %ile(combined)?

@harrypotter24 said:

thank youwill surely follow ur advice

@realitycheck said:

i was loosing hope on my cat preperation yesterday..and was feeling quite negative..and today i gt my highest aimcat score(improvement by 25% over previous highest)..i am again feeling good..dont loose hope...

@katvond said:

@harrypotter24 LOD 1 are for building basics... you should solve LOD 2 as they are closest to actual CAT level... All the best!

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@dannyarch said: hey puys.. i know its a lil too early.. but this is kinda eating me up.. do ANY of you happen to know any person to have made it to the IIMs or any top 20 B schools with an engg aggregate of less than 60%??

@peligro said:

well i wont say that is a smart approach bcoz u dnt knw what will be the weightage of DI/DS in the 1st paper. u still have time infact ample time. try covering the important topics first like numbers, P n C, progressions, geometry.. last time there were some sitters on logarithm and functions.. if u r finding it really difficult then atleast first cover up ur easy chapters in quant.. u said u r gud in VA. so try leave that for time being and conc all ur time on ur weakness because unless u overcome ur fears it';s very hard to be confident on the actual CAT date..

Thanks peligro.....yes in fact i am working on geometry,numbers..n algebra mostly....bt u r quite ri8...its actually the fear tht is holding me bck.....thnks for the advice....also i find P&C; ....probability...really difficult..they r my biggest probs can u suggest some gud buks for them

@applelover said: Hey guys, My mock test scores are not impressive at all barely reaching the cut offs, analyzing of each Mock is going well though! Thing is what ever may be my marks are I am growing strong and confident dat I can bell CAT..Am i being Over-confident? Anyone out there feeling the same way?

Pls suggest on how to get out of this trans state..

@mouna1790 said: hey puys....um gud wid LR...exceptionally gud inVA..as well..the sole prob is Quant..so i decided to pay more attention to DI/DS..which is going pretty well....pls advice whr my approach is the ri8 one...or kindly gimmme better suggestion...i have picked up 28 oct for CAT.

@visionIIM-ACL said: Sharing link to one of the all time inspiring songs at the time of troughs during the journey... Not sharing the video but the lyrics version so that we can read the words and feel them more

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAqP-V...

@raviiteju said:@visionIIM-ACL

Sir my quant percentiles used to be above 95 %le in almost every mock n hardly crossed the cutoffs in verbal . i worked religiously in verbal n now im able to score 90%le in verbal . but my quant scores r going too low below 50 %les. im able to do every problem in material without time limit . but wen doing in a time limit im unable to solve the questions . some kind of tension is creeping in .Thereby my confidence is going down though i increased my prep time to 10 hrs. Suggest me in reimproving my quant scores sir .

@raviiteju said: @visionIIM-ACL

Sir my quant percentiles used to be above 95 %le in almost every mock n hardly crossed the cutoffs in verbal . i worked religiously in verbal n now im able to score 90%le in verbal . but my quant scores r going too low below 50 %les. im able to do every problem in material without time limit . but wen doing in a time limit im unable to solve the questions . some kind of tension is creeping in .Thereby my confidence is going down though i increased my prep time to 10 hrs. Suggest me in reimproving my quant scores sir .

@Sivshanth said:

@Akshaya1005

Catharsis always helps. Now your mind must be clearer. Your problem stems from the fact that you are quite desperate to get out of IT and are looking at MBA as a solution. You would like to do well in CAT and other management examinations and are working hard towards that goal. However, you are not making the kind of progress that you would like. As a result you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself.

Take a short break and keep working on the concepts. Avoid comparing yourself with others through various forums. Try to keep your preparation simple and keep plugging away. Classify the colleges into three categories - top notch, colleges which have a cut-off that match your performance and those with a cut-off just below your performance. Make sure you apply to a few colleges in each category and keep your options open.

Finally remember that life is a marathon and not a sprint. Irrespective of the college which you graduate from, you can always make it big if you have the right attitude and a willingness to learn. ATB

@[543298:Akshaya1005]

Catharsis always helps. Now your mind must be clearer. Your problem stems from the fact that you are quite desperate to get out of IT and are looking at MBA as a solution. You would like to do well in CAT and other management examinations and are working hard towards that goal. However, you are not making the kind of progress that you would like. As a result you are putting a lot of pressure on yourself.

Take a short break and keep working on the concepts. Avoid comparing yourself with others through various forums. Try to keep your preparation simple and keep plugging away. Classify the colleges into three categories - top notch, colleges which have a cut-off that match your performance and those with a cut-off just below your performance. Make sure you apply to a few colleges in each category and keep your options open.

Finally remember that life is a marathon and not a sprint. Irrespective of the college which you graduate from, you can always make it big if you have the right attitude and a willingness to learn. ATB

@rinasingh said: I'm in a serious dilema as i'm not pretty much sure about how many questions i should attempt in each sec in order to get a descent %ile.meanwhile i'm giving my best to get good %ile in my mocks but could'nt achieve upto the mark,which gives me a very inferior feeling n i'm so much depressed bcoz of which i'm not concentrating on my prep n always thinking about my mock scores.now i develope a mindset that in these 2.5 months of my prep i'm not going to improve n this is becoming a critical situation 4 me to handle. my parents r alwaz motivating me but can u suggest me that can i improve my score in 2.5 months of my prep n also how 2 be positive inspite of all the tensions.