MBAGuru CAT Preparation Blog

CAT preparation strategy, mindset and guidance from MBAGuru

Explore MBAGuru articles on CAT preparation strategy, practice habits, online prep, exam mindset and MBA entrance guidance. These posts are designed to help aspirants prepare more consistently, avoid common mistakes and approach CAT preparation with better structure.

Latest CAT preparation articles

•September 26, 2025

The easy way to score high in the CAT Exam

This one thing is so important that I repeat it multiple times on all possible platforms. 75% of your strategy to score high in the CAT exam is about easy stuff. Sounds absurd, does it? But it’s true nevertheless. The first thing you need to do to crack the CAT exam is to understand how...

•September 22, 2025

The everything & nothing of CAT Coaching

Your CAT Coaching offers you a lot – classes, (regular extra-classes, level-wise homework if you are at MBAGuru), study material and extra-material for practice, doubt clearing sessions, tests of varying difficulty levels and at different levels such as topics, sections, overall. And spurred on by the spread of online coaching for CAT, you have online groups, communities...

•September 15, 2025

How to make your CAT Preparation powerful?

CAT preparation is like no other exam preparation in the sense that while the course for CAT is something that’s relatively simple (i.e. all of us have had prior exposure to practically everything that the exam tests), our tendency to complicate things simply because they are important to us creates bigger challenges. So, you have...

•September 12, 2025

How to make the most of mock CATs in your CAT Coaching

There is very little value in taking a test if you cannot use it as a stepping stone. And this improvement will not happen, unless you analyse your test performance well. Mock CATs are an integral part of almost every CAT coaching. Analysis of AIRCATs/Mock CATs is one of the most underrated and under-utilized areas...

•September 5, 2025

Your favorite school, college, CAT Coaching teachers?

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Adams

•September 1, 2025

The A-B-C-D Loop of Excellence in your CAT Preparation

Whether you are taking this year’s CAT or the next, some simple stuff will work powerfully in both cases. Whether you are struggling to get going or you aren’t doing too well on your Mock Tests/AIRCATs, you may be wondering if the laborious CAT preparation journey you have undertaken will take you to the goal you...

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Useful MBAGuru resources for CAT aspirants

CAT Coaching in Delhi by MBAGuru — for students looking for offline classroom CAT coaching in Delhi.
MBAGuru Online CAT Coaching — for aspirants who want live online classes, structure and accountability.
MBAGuru Success Stories — student reviews, CAT results and IIM / top B-school calls.
MBAGuru Faculty — current faculty and mentors behind the CAT preparation programs.
Mini SWOT — a diagnostic starting point for understanding preparation gaps.