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

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 CAT2026. 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

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

We understand why a school football team has a coach. Or why we send a kid to a tennis or a chess coaching academy. There is a need to learn the basics in both these cases – as could be in case of a majority of CAT coaching takers. Beyond the Basics: Pause here and...Read More

What’s clue can chasing a stiff target in a cricket match provide about the most important CAT prep mantra? When you are chasing a big target batting second, you can’t afford to look at the target and be intimidated. The first step is to not get out and believe that you CAN do it if...Read More