Actually i am final year student and my semester exams are up to Nov 22...!!!Can any one suggest me last few days preparation for CAT exam..

Hey Kumari,

I am hoping you are not an engineer and doing graduation in some other course. As I have gone through the same dilemma during my CAT exam. So, I will suggest you that get hold of class notes from your friends and prepare for the finals 1 or 2 weeks before the exam. As one to two week is more than enough to score good marks.  Focus more on CAT, revise all your previous mock and go through their answers and mistakes you have committed. Make a note of all basic Quant formulas and try to get hold of short-cuts for calculation. Sometimes the online calculator consumes more time than manual calculation. Rely completely on mock for VA and RC. Prepare well and Ace it. Best wishes!

Hello Kumari Gunuru,

I would suggest you to brush up your basic formula and make a note of it that you remember those formula.

Try going through previous mocks and see wherever you have done mistakes and nit to repeat those .

There's still one month time and you can preapare a formula list for last minute preparation along

Do not try something new after ur exam

QA - solve analyse previous question

Va rc - solve and read 3rc per day

Di lr - try to do 2 sets

Do not learn something new but prepare fulky with what you have and make best of it.

Hope it clears up your doubts. All the best

SInce the time is very less left I will have to assume that you are already ready with CAT preparations.

Because if you are not then I will advise you to Appear for CAT19.

If you are prepared for it then have the following approach,

Refer past 25 years Cat solved papers by Career launcher from amazon, it will help alot, I used it. Make sure to finish it before Cat.

Keep giving as much as mocks possible.
The fear of loosing out on close options will go through that.

You need to form a strategy that these questions I am good at, these Ones id definitely leave, and these are the ones which I will definitely solve if time permits.

So capitalise on your strengths Work on your weaknesses and if you cant convert your weaknesses into strengths then sometimes leaving them behind is the right way to go forward.

And after saying all this, you have to understand that you have alot of time left in life, first make sure you pass with flying colors in your final terms as well.

So Start working right on.

Hope this helps,

All the Best,

SMIT-IIM-AMRITSAR-PGP/04

Hello,

Considering factors like your exam being coinciding with CAT and you not being able to devote much time, I would like to tell you that the days close to CAT are anyway not meant for any sort of new preparation but just revision.

If possible, try to take out some time for brushing up your concepts already learnt, and honing your strengths because the last days are never for working on your weaknesses.

Whilst preparing for CAT so far you might have identified some key questions that hold important concepts, look into them.

For VARC, try to solve one RC per day.

For DILR , try to solve one set per day.

And for Quants, pick up one concept for a week, and try to solve as many questions (just for revision, nothing new please) pertaining to that concept.

Hope this helps!!

All the best!!

Hi Kumari,

This is a question that comes into many people's minds. So here's the startegy that I followed in my Final year and made it into IIM Indore.

First and foremost, Practice is very very important at this stage. Time management and knowing which question to answer and which to leave are the major tips that will help you get that extra mile towards a 99 percentile.

1. Focus on your concepts. Do not loose ground or base on your concepts, specifically in Wuant and LR-DI. This would be 30 minutes per day

2.  I Hope you have made a strategy for CAT already. If not over the next three mocks, experiment with different strategies and finalise the one that works best for you. i would suggest you take one mock every alternate day and analyse the mock performance the next day to identify where you went wrong. This would be 3hrs per day.

3. Focus majorly on your weaker section and take sectional tests on the weaker section. On the days that you don't take the full length mock, one day take test on weaker section and the other days alternate between stronger sections. This should be around 30 mins a day.

For example: If you are weak in VA, this should be the plan:

Full mock | VA + Mock analysis | Full Mock + VA analysis | LR + Full Mock Analysis | Full Mock + LR Analysis| VA + Full Mock Analysis | Full Mock + VA analysis | Quant + Full Mock Analysis| ......

Ideally, you would be spending 4-5 hours on this. The remaining time you can focus on semester exams.

All the best

V. Neeraja | IIM Indore (2017-19)

Hi Gunuru,

Asuminng that you have already prepared for the exam , I would suugest you to llok for some specific kinds of questions that you feel you are weak at. You should start taking mock tests daily. But don't take too much stress. You have already prepared whatever you have to. Utlilise last few days just to brush up your knowledge and some tricks that you know.

All the best