So, what is the main purpose of your CAT preparation? If you are finding it tough to express it in a few words, let me try and help you get there. So, try and answer the following to start with. What is the purpose of practice matches before a big series/tournament? What is the purpose...Read More

Hope you are doing good! If you are doubting yourself, your CAT prep or your progress, then this is a must-read for you. This writeup contains the crux of learning and experiences of 1000s of CAT aspirants just like you. Right around this time, a few weeks before CAT, they faced doubts pretty similar to the...Read More

I hope you didn’t miss out the writeup about how simple things are powerful. How the simplest things can bring the biggest gains in your CAT prep often overlooked. Hope you have made some progress there by analyzing your recent mocks. If you’ve realized the scope of improvement in picking more from the easy questions, here’s...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Imagine you are just starting to figure out the best way to prepare for CAT, with just 3 months to go for CAT2025. Maybe you joined the best CAT coaching institute a little later than your would have liked to or you feel you haven’t made much progress so far even if you began your CAT...Read More

Around this time of the year, many students write to me expressing their fear of writing AIRCATs. In case you feel that way at this stage of your CAT prep, you are not alone. And that suggests that it is natural to feel this way. There are so many who feel similarly. A very bright...Read More