Hi All, Wishing everyone best of luck!! People who are taking the exam today, please use this thread for the discussions. To assure that the thread is put to the best use, please post your CAT 2013, penultimate day exam experience…
Hi All,
Wishing everyone best of luck!!
People who are taking the exam today, please use this thread for the discussions.
To assure that the thread is put to the best use, please post your CAT 2013, penultimate day exam experience in the following format :
CAT Center, Date and Slot:
1) How many attempts you have made?
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at:
http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/2013-mock-score-repository-25100435
Please provide the link here.3) How was your experience of the test?
4) What was the surprise element for you?
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
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Arnab
CAT Center: JNTU Hyderabad 10:30 AM
1) How many attempts you have made?
QA 17 VA 14-15 max 2 wrong in each section.
2) Your last mock score? around 90 %le in AIMCATS
3) How was your experience of the test?
no technical glitches.everything was good.
4) What was the surprise element for you?
nothin surprised me as such.
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
prior mocks would suffice
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
QA:moderate.no prob 1 pnc 1 tw, geo and algebra dominated the section as expected
DI: 1 set easy, 1 set bit calculation based and other venn diagram(3 var) which i didn't atempt.
VA: 3 rc, 3para completion, 1incrct word usage, 2FIB, 2 PJ, 2Grammar.
LR: 1easy,2mod 9/9 here.👏
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
saw a girl while i was collecting my belongings. She looked like an 👼 in her red dress. couldn't take the initiative to talk to her 😠 . hope i see her again.
Hey , my friend took the test @morning slot.. he says : 15 questions attempted qa-di with 4 incorrect and 15 from Va lr ,, Is it a decent attempt wrt difficulty??
hi . any one 10th morning Prometric slot,Hyderabad
ping me for discussion
CAT Center, Date and Slot: Dehradun, 10 Nov-Slot 01
1) How many attempts you have made? QA-18 VA-23
2) Your last mock score? 75 percentile in AIMCAT
3) How was your experience of the test?
My Paper went smooth actually. Glancing the whole section within 30 mins simultaneously doing some sitters along- helped me going thru the paper twice.
Expecting(min.)- QA-15 Correct / VA-14 Correct
4) What was the surprise element for you? Nothing.
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Make sure you have sharpened pencils before the test..also do read the instructions properly if giving for the first time..Not much of a problem as such in computer based, as we can anytime raise our hand to ask for anything if needed !
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
QA-Moderate Difficulty though time consuming-DI s were calculation intensive but doable
VA-Moderate Difficulty- 2 LR's were doable 1 was tough. RCs were doable too.
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
Just keep your calm and dont oversleep in the name of getting rest a day before..👍
any1 else felt LR was tough for today's 1st slot ? fucked up my whole section!! 😠
any1 else felt LR was tough for today's 1st slot ? fucked up my whole section!!
Yup, LR was quite tough. I could attempt only two. I felt the RCs were tough as well. What were your attempts in both the sections?
3:15 PM Slot [Mumbai] :
Quant was doable but lengthy. 2-3 questions couldn't be done if not seen previously. DI very easy.
Verbal 1 LR was almost the same I got last year 👏. But was still confused and the information seemed incomplete or incorrect.It consumed by 10-15 minutes due to which I left 1 para completion and Sentence correction. 1 RC (4Q) was tough (religion, nihilism, hitler)😠. Rest was doable.
CAT Center EIILM Kolkata, Date 10-Nov-13 and Slot 3.15pm:
1) How many attempts you have made? 18+25 = 43
2) Your last mock score? 92.XX
3) How was your experience of the test? Good
4) What was the surprise element for you? Nothing was easy in the paper
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better? Practice
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. : Quant - Moderate - Tough
DI - 1 Easy 1 Tough 1 Moderate but was able to do only the easy one
RC - 2 Tough 1 Moderate
LR - 2 Tough 1 Moderate
Verbal - Moderate
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
This is by far the toughest CAT I ever faced, no give-away...hope normalization plays its part
raw score of 55-65 can fetch you how much percentile?
test date-10th nov 3:15 slot
CAT center in Bangalore.
Attempted 18 and 25 in sections 1 and 2.
DI was hard.LR was very easy.
Overall it was moderate.
CAT Center, Date and Slot: EIILM-Kolkata, Morning Slot
1) How many attempts you have made? ~14 in both the sections
2) Your last mock score? If you are there at:
http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/2013-mock-score-repository-25100435
Yes, I am there but scores are not uploaded.CAT 2011~90%ile & CAT2012~80%ile
3) How was your experience of the test?
Section 1 was easy-doable, but lengthy.
I won't comment much on LOD of Section 2, but 2 LRs were easy and 1 was difficult for me(Circular Arrangement, Sen & Chatterjee, Vegetables)
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Nothing as such. Thank you 
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
NA
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
Bit lengthy.
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
No need to memorize Apollonious Theorem, CAT still asks questions based on basic concepts.
Bangalore, 3:15 Slot,
Sec-I: 20(at least 16 should be correct),
Sec II: LR: 9(8 correct, 1 doubtful),
Verbal: 16(Accuracy, only God knows !!, hopefully 70+).. what could be the reasonable %le to expect!!!
CAT Center : prometric, hyderabad ,Slot: 3:15
1) How many attempts you have made?
QA/DI : 20-21( 19 def correct) , VA/LR : 27 (hoping for high accuracy)
2) Your last mock score?
95% in aimcats, 95-99 % in TF icats
3) How was your experience of the test?
Smooth without any glitches
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Easy DI : never expected they would so st forward
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
QA had some awesome questions on concept which are very intrinsic. All the geometry and co-ordinate ques were based on corrallaries of basic concepts. Wasted 6 min on a tough ques
Geo : 3-4
Co geo : 3-4
Agebra : 4-5
T&W; : 2
Interest : 2
Numbers : 3
PC : 3 last but not one ant ques
Di : bar graph 3q( easy but cal intensive) , line graph 3q(1 easy 1 cal intesive and 1 wrong options) 3 set venn diagram with diff verbose style( used the options from 1st ques and solved the other ques very easily.
Over all well balanced moderate section 1
VA :
Para completetion : 3 ( 1 extremely diff)
Para jumble : 2
Sention correction : 2 ( lil easy)
Word usage : 2 ( 1 tough 1 easy)
FIB : 2
RC : 2 moderate and 1 tough due to ques
LR : ridicously easy. solved all 3sets with 18 min
Section 1 : moderate to lil diff
Section 2 : lil easy to moderate
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
Keep cool after seeng few of the tougher QA in the beginning
CAT Center : prometric, Bangalore ,Slot: 3:15
1) How many attempts you have made?
QA/DI : 10 , VA/LR : 13
2) Your last mock score?
N/A (Last year's CAT percentile - 88)
3) How was your experience of the test?
Extremely Tough Quant. Two DI sets were Venn diagram with extremely tricky statements. In the whole paper I was wondering what are the questions I can attempt. It was very very difficult.
Verbal - 2 RCs tuff. All 3 LRs were tuff. 🎂🎂🎂🎂
4) What was the surprise element for you?
No graph in DI set. 😠😠
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
This was my 4th attempt for CAT, have never seen CAT exam so tuff.
CAT Center: Trivandrum
Date 10 Nov, 13
Slot: 3:15
1) How many attempts you have made?
QA: 20 (~17-19C) ; VA: 27 (No sure shot idea but expecting 80-90% accuracy)
2) Your last mock score? N/A (CAT 2012: 98.5)
3) How was your experience of the test?
Lengthy quant, moderate VA
4) What was the surprise element for you?
None, lenghty quant was talk of the town
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
have a strategy for handling this kind of long endurance paper
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
toughness was dependent on question picking for QA
VA only one essay was tough
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
NA
CAT center: Kochi, day& slot: 10 november 3:15pm
atemps : q&di;: 10, v&lr;: 13
analysis: Quant was very mch doable...bt was damn lengthy.. DI: 2qs wr easy....Verbal: evn the parajumbes were tough! RC was the tuffst(hitler and his bludy religion!! 😠😁), full of inference based qs....LR: i cudnt atempt due to lack of tym, bt i feel 1 of thm (a to j divided in 2 grups) was easier
CAT Center : FIEM, Kolkata ,Slot: 3:15
1) How many attempts you have made?
QA/DI : 18-20 ((2 was by intuition 1 was correct other dnt know), VA/LR : 24 (hoping for high accuracy)
2) Your last mock score?
94 -94 proc 9 and 10th CL
3) How was your experience of the test?
Smooth without any glitches
4) What was the surprise element for you?
Easy DI : never expected they would so st forward (One Venn diagram was tough did not get time to solve)
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
QA had some awesome questions on concept which are very intrinsic. All the geometry and co-ordinate ques were based on corrallaries of basic concepts. Wasted 6 min on a tough ques
Paper was easy. all problems were doable but lengthy, cudnt do time management properlyThe language of the question in QA was difficult. Seemed like I am reading a RC.
Di : bar graph 3q( easy but cal intensive) , line graph 3q 3 set venn diagram with diff verbose style( used the options from 1st ques and solved the other ques very easily.
Over all well balanced moderate section 1
VA :
Para completetion : 3 ( 1 extremely diff)
Para jumble : 2
Sention correction : 2 ( lil easy)
Word usage : 2 ( 1 tough 1 easy)
FIB : 2
RC : 2 moderate and 1 tough due to ques
LR : ridicously easy. solved all 3sets with 22 min
Section 1 : moderate to lil diff
Section 2 : lil easy to moderate
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.
Keep cool after seeing few of the tougher QA in the beginning
CAT Center, Date and Slot: Hyderabad, 10 Nov-Slot 02
1) How many attempts you have made? QA-19 (expecting 17 to be correct) VA-24 (Bhagwaan bharose hai bhai accuacy toh, though i feel optimistic about it 😁 )
2) Your last mock score? 98.9 percentile in AIMCAT
3) How was your experience of the test?
My Paper went smooth actually.
4) What was the surprise element for you? DI on the easier side. Screwed up the venn diagram question though. Should have done it 😞
5) Any tips to handle the computer based exam better?
Make sure you have sharpened pencils before the test..also do read the instructions properly if giving for the first time..Not much of a problem as such in computer based, as we can anytime raise our hand to ask for anything if needed !
6) Your overall analysis of the exam. Toughness, new topics, sections etc.
VA was definitely manageable. Reading the questions before the passage mislead me. Picked up the wrong RC. Recovered it in the other RC. Hoping to get all three right there.
LR was moderate. I took a little while to get everything done. Wasted a little time here 😞
7) Any other query or something you would like to share.