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

There are imagined problems, there are real problems, and then there are epic ones. Quant in CAT is a bit of all of these. Despite being equal in importance to the other 2 sections in CAT as far as CAT preparation is concerned, the QA section ends up getting a lot more attention (focus, anxiety,...Read More

As you continue with your CAT preparation, the role of mock CATs (AIRCATs at MBAGuru) begins to gain importance at this stage of your CAT prep. As an enthusiastic CAT aspirant, you may have access to multiple test series and therefore, find yourself flooded with a huge number of tests available for practice. A question...Read More

This is a slightly dated mail but still absolutely relevant for most of you. Nidhi Bansal was one of the most demanding students I have come across – demanding not just of MBAGuru but of herself to.Read More

Should you be writing AIRCATs or mock CATs right now even if your course for CAT is not finished? You must start taking the AIRCATs if your batch’s course coverage is anywhere close to 50%. Else, you could wait just a little longer. Taking online tests is a habit that will take some time to...Read More

Remember the times (or just that one time) when you did better than you expected?Read More

When you think about how to prepare for CAT, you evaluate yourself, right? And you think you know? You think you know what is it that you are not good at? And many of you probably think you are weak in Quant in CAT? Let’s say you think you are bad at X (X could...Read More

Many of you have written to me expressing your worries about poor scores in some AIRCATs/mock CATs and how it is affecting your CAT preparation. Many others among you would have faced a similar challenge in any new field you adopted anytime in your life – for example, you just started learning how to play TT and...Read More