As a CAT-24 aspirant, you are luckier than the aspirants of the past few CATs in a way. You get to pursue your college studies as well as CAT Prep via physical/offline classes. The joy and effectiveness of interactive learning in a real classroom are still unmatched. The social element of education hasn’t been replicated...Read More

Every year brings around some amazing International sporting events. The last Football & Cricket World Cups. The Tokyo Olympics a couple of years ago. And the CWG games last year. All these events serve as another reminder of some of the most important lessons of life. Some of these lessons are as important for your...Read More

Last week saw a disappointing culmination to India’s T20 World Cup campaign once again. If you are an Indian cricket fan, you would have been heartbroken. But you would also be getting used to it by now. Your reactions could range from trying to justify the team’s poor show with some logic to exercising the...Read More

Over the last few days, I wrote in detail about how to excel in the VARC section in CAT. Please go through MBAGuru blog, if you haven’t already. Final step: All other steps are useless unless you put them into practice Here is a list of the authors and their books I suggest you read from now...Read More

In my first 2 blog posts on this topic, I wrote in detail about the first 2 steps (of 5 steps to mastering the VARC section in CAT): You can read them here and here if you haven’t already. Onto Step3 now. Step3: Understand where CAT RCs come from With my 8 years of experience of teaching VA...Read More

In my first blog post on this topic, I wrote in detail about Step1 (of 5 steps to mastering the VARC section in CAT): Understand the trend. You can read it here if you haven’t already. Onto Step2 now. Step2: Think. Reflect. ADAPT. I discuss at length in my classes why CR, and especially RC, remain such darlings...Read More

Are you serious about CAT preparation, especially the VARC section? If you are not serious about it, please don’t read this and subsequent write-ups on this topic and waste your time. You can find better ways to use it. But if you are really serious about it, don’t stop till you read and implement ALL...Read More

When the Delhi Government announced a lockdown on educational institutions (around 10 days before the nation-wide lockdown), we had several other big coachings calling us up to find out what our plans were: Were we shutting the classes immediately? Were we closing the offices? (How) would we continue to serve our students? What about their...Read More

What I write here has little to do with my data analysis skills at CAT; it certainly has more to do with basic data interpretation and some common sense (which can often get fogged with emotions).When the lockdown happened, the kind of media hype that was there across the globe, perhaps due to lack of...Read More

So, you’ve already begun your CAT coaching or are on the cusp of doing so. But the lockdown and the negative news about the entire economy has you on tenterhooks. Doomsday proclamations and prophecies abound. And you are confused about whether this is the worst time to do your MBA.  On the contrary, if you...Read More