The experts suggest a smart way of preparing for Common Admission Test (CAT) rather than taking a zig zag way. If the preparations are given a right path and the perfect strategy, it’s a win-win situation for the students.
Below are few tips for aspirants on key components and crack the CAT-2018 exam with a high score.
‘It is very important to know what and how to prepare for the CAT Exam as the syllabus and the pattern of the CAT EXAM would not repeat itself’.
Experts like Arun Sharma, Nishit Sinha and Prof. S K Agrawal have laid down few tips and tricks to crack the CAT EXAM paving the way for the aspirants to their desired MBA colleges in India.
Here’s a summary of CAT preparation strategy laid by few experts as a last minute guide to crack the CAT EXAM.
Know well the changed CAT syllabus and exam pattern
The CAT syllabus may have changed its pattern based on revamped CAT syllabus as regards to type of questions and their scoring system. The detail of the changed CAT syllabus is yet to be announced. However CAT 2018 will be a computer based exam of 3 hours duration with 100 questions divided in 3 sections and will be conducted in more than 140 test cities in India on a Sunday in two sessions- morning and afternoon in the last week of November or first week of December.
Prepare for DATA PERCENTILE
In 2017, Data Interpretation (DI) bought more impact on the DILR section than any other section of the CAT EXAM. The increased role of DI questions in CAT EXAM can help you improve your sectional percentile score by 40 points or so, only if the answers marked by you go correct.
VARC remains a high score in the CAT EXAM
The VARC section, if taken care without any laxity during the last few days left to prepare for the CAT EXAM could prove to be a high score section in changed CAT EXAM pattern. Although it will not take your score from 70 to 99 percentile score in your CAT EXAM, but as per the experts if you apply the right strategy you can boost your percentile by 30-40 points.
Logical reasoning is a game changer
Logical reasoning (LR) can prove to be a game changer to boost or doom your CAT percentile score. Despite scoring 97 or 99 percentile in CAT, if your LR remains week you may miss the chance of getting into reputed B schools in India.
Be fully prepared with Quantitative Ability
Quant section needs conceptual clarity as its formula based questions. Your knowledge and skill to apply the fundamentals to solve the Quant questions in CAT will help you score high.
In the end it is always advisable to take online MOCK tests as many as possible and not to mug up vocabulary as it would be of no use as “practice makes a CAT perfect!”
