CAT newbeies/ repeaters aiming TOP 10 small advice
With 9 months left to cat and most interviews done the time is right to start preparing .
Learn your basics from first if you have <95 in CAT
Join coaching only if your basics are terrible else you can mange with self study and hard work.
JOIN 2-3 test series from top institutes
Advise against joining others as their difficulty and standards are unpredictable.
After mock re solve everything without time constraint and if still not getting it see the solutions.
STAY GROUNDED . I've personally seen people with 99+ in mock series getting 97.XX in final CAT.
Working people Its very challenging to compete with the ones in college or taking break year.. So be ready to put in every minute possible. Ateast 2 hours everyday and 5 hours on saturdy and sunday and holidays. Keep outings to minimum.
Advice for Freshers and working people
You can justify / make up for a gap year but you cannot justify mediocre percentile. So decide accordingly.
GEMs,
The situation is very very competitive .But its doable for you guys!!.
TOP 5 will happen at 99.8+
TOP 10 at 99.5+
TOP5
For Work ex (approx 24 months) and awesome profiles (with 10th- 90+ 12th-90+ Grad-80+ IITS,NITS,CA etc ) you can expect at 98.5+
For Gender (F) and Academic diversity same at 98.5+ you get top calls.
OBCs Engineers 98+ Diversity- 95+
SC-90+
ST-85+
PH-75+
NOW I cant stress this enough dont think about cutoffs too much as finally your peak potential you cant predict today.
Think about working hard and getting your best score.
MOST IMPORTANTLY
Keep a healthy highly comeptitive peer group close.
YOULL help each other in unimaginable ways and bring yourselves to ABC level.
ALL THE BEST 🙌
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