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

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

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

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 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

We (in Delhi) are banned from using matches to light up crackers on Diwali. But Diwali reminds me of that unbelievable India-Pak match in the 2022 T20 World Cup. The timing of that match and Virat Kohli’s knock could not have been better. And 1000s of aspirants in the final stages of their CAT preparation...Read More

While this write-up is a little dated, the lessons from Faisal’s journey to IIMs are timeless & hence, I feel like sharing it with CAT aspirants each year. This is especially relevant for those who may be using poor academics, a humble background or some other limitations as an excuse for not dreaming big! So,...Read More