Listen up, future IIM rockstar! So, you know what’s wild? When they think about how to prepare for CAT, 99% of CAT aspirants: Hunt for the “magic material” (Spoiler: It doesn’t exist) Blame “past marks, luck, coaching” (Meanwhile, toppers are grinding like “newspaper waala at 5 AM”) Forget that Kohli’s cover drive (or Rohit’s pull!) = 1,000 hrs of SAME boring...Read More

So, how can you form a weekly CAT Prep plan to ensure the best CAT Preparation experience for yourself? Days 1 and 2 Let’s say you are engaged with a formal CAT coaching for 2 days (let’s call them Day-1 and Day-2) a week (this would be the weekend for most regular college students/working professionals), you need...Read More

So, you want to maximize your chances of success at CAT. And you are wondering what would be the best CAT Coaching for you to ensure that. And for that you need to make the best possible use of your time. You need to prepare as per your individual needs. And in line with your...Read More

Some things are true for anything you want to excel at. Whether it is an art form or a sport, or for that matter, even your CAT preparation. These are essentially tenets of investment and behave in a very similar way, regardless of the resource that is being invested. Understanding these will help you retain...Read More

The best gym or the best CAT coaching may not be the ones that are equipped with the best gadgets or boast of the swankiest infrastructure. But let’s assume that your gym and coaching have a decent infra. Let’s also assume that your trainers at the gym or the CAT coaching are among the best....Read More

CAT Preparation and T-20s are quite similar in one aspect. No, it isn’t just that the recent CATs have been of 120 minutes duration, the same as the number of balls a side gets in a T20 match. So, what is it, then? I’m sure you’ve watched a few nail-biting T20Is in the IPL or...Read More

The “make it large” ad for a liquor brand is aspirational in nature. Everyone wants to make it big! But very few do. And till you make it big, what do you intend to do? The question is as pertinent to your CAT exam Preparation as it is to any other aspiration that you nurture. Do...Read More

Any Top B-School/IIM personal interview panel normally interviews 10-12 Candidates in a single day, one after the other. Most answers from most aspirants to usual questions like “Tell us something about yourself”, “Why do you want to pursue MBA” and so on are safe, uninteresting and sound similar to each other. This becomes even more...Read More

One of the major drag-downs on success in any field, including CAT preparation, is the tendency to take a lot of pressure. For most of us ordinary mortals, pressure has a negative impact on performance. It takes away a lot of energy, it can cause a brain-freeze at crucial times, and it doesn’t help us improve....Read More

Preparation for a Top B-School/IIM Personal Interview is a little different from the prep for CAT. At times you might find yourself getting slightly different inputs from different mentors about the same question. So, Shiv sir or Abhishek sir for example may have a slightly different view from what Rajat sir or I may think...Read More