The Aptitude Tests, which are the first stage of the selection process for MBA Colleges, are almost over for the year. Many of the results, including that for the CAT, have been declared. While so many of our students have excelled and scored a top-notch percentile. To such CAT-21 stars, who have excelled in the...Read More

Many of you would have begun your CAT preparation in the last calendar year. While that might have been just a few weeks ago, it was still a different calendar year. So, when you began your CAT prep, CAT 2022 might have seemed a distant event. It was something that would happen ’next’ year. That...Read More

A perspective post today’s CAT: No one (but the IIMs) really knows the right answers to the questions. (And they will share the same in early December.) No one (including the IIMs) really knows, as of this moment, how lakhs of aspirants did and hence, what score would get what percentile? (This will become clear...Read More

Success at CAT, as at most things challenging, depends upon the following 5 factors: Your Ability – this is something all of us possess in different measure in different areas. This infact, is the crux of ADAPTIVE Prep for CAT – that each of us is skilled in different ways. Knowing yourself well allows you...Read More

Write AIRCATs/mocks only if you are feeling good about the same, or if you can stay unaffected by the scores and can simply do it to stay warmed up. If you are feeling even a little bit jaded, don’t attempt any more mocks. If you have got a good score lately, again, skip any more...Read More

(Strange topic this – because chance and luck can be used interchangeably in many, probably most, cases.) Be it in sports, in the financial markets, or when it comes to how to prepare for CAT, some things are common and common sensical. If you want to increase your probability of success in any of these...Read More

2 Sundays, 2 big matches, and 2 disappointing performances. If you are an Indian cricket fan, you would be heartbroken right now. Your reactions could range from trying to justify the team’s poor show with some logic to exercising the choicest of vocabulary on the team. Wherever you lie on this spectrum, there are some...Read More

From the form of a batsman in the ongoing IPL, to your chances of ensuring that your efforts in guaranteeing the best CAT preparation experience for yourself actually pay off, it is about how you think, and what you believe. It is amazing how what you think begins to become the reality. It’s all in the state...Read More

Be it the data that your CAT entrance exam preparation process throws up continuously, or the performances that a sportsperson or a sports team strings together – performance, good or bad, almost always reflects patterns. I would even go to the extent of saying that performance, more often than not, is because of patterns. The most recent...Read More

Every year, around this time, I start getting mails and messages from numerous students from various top CAT Coaching institutes about the hopeless status of their CAT preparation / progress/ AIRCAT scores etc. It is tough to respond to such mails individually simply because mindset cannot be changed through strategy/practice related inputs. The solution to...Read More