So, cracking the CAT is your dream but the odds don’t look that good, eh? Leicester’s run during the 2015-16 Premier League season defied the odds, literally. They had 5,000-to-1 odds of winning the title that season. And yet, they clinched their first trophy in team history. (5000 to 1 is similar to only 45...Read More
The toughest part of any big challenge is the first 30 to 50%. It holds true if you want to start a new business, bat in tough conditions, form a new habit or kick an old one! It holds true for CAT preparation as well as something like preparing for a marathon. There are so many...Read More
Regardless of the stage of your CAT prep, chances are that you believe Quant and/or DILR to be a bigger challenge than VARC. The one thing you might want to do right away is to check your accuracy over 4-5 mock CATs (AIRCATs) and see whether your assessment is correct. You might be not-so-pleasantly surprised....Read More
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
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
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
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
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