Dear Folks!
It's exactly 32 days to CAT-2006, and I am thinking of my strategy for the upcoming CAT Exam.
I have, of course, prepared a strategy for this year…
The first thing, I am continuously thinking that I can make it… I am working on my attitude… telling myself… that it’s there in me. I need to believe in myself that it’s not impossible for me… and that I was too close last year itself… Everyday I am day-dreaming of what I would feel like seeing my score-card mentioning 100 percentile… everyday I am making plans to prepare my post to this blog once I receive 100 percentile…
The next big thing that I am doing for this year’s CAT is of course working on my comprehension of difficult texts… haven’t yet been able to forget “Derrida”… I know, a very good comprehension is my key to performing not only in verbal section, but even Quants and DI sections. This year, I have read about five novels and one classic, have made it a habit to read ‘Speaking Tree’ in The Times of India, am writing some précis, reading some of the difficult texts twice or may be even thrice… - This helps me understand how big or small is the gap in my comprehension…. By the way, haven’t I been prophesying all these to my students? Then shouldn’t I too must observe a strict discipline in my pursuit of realizing my dream? Also I understand, that my ability in quants section affords me certain logical and analytical thought process. So I must identify question types in verbal section which require logical thought process… Here, I have shortlisted questions on Para-Jumble, Paragraph Completion, Contextual usage of words, and Reading Comprehension… Up goes grammar questions… and may be even multiple usage of words too… Also I have decided to give about 55 minutes to verbal section, as I have decided not to be defensive in CAT… Not to give more time to my favourite section… but to one where I can get maximum trade-off… Though Quants is my favourite section, I must target a score of at least 30 in verbal section…
For Quants too, I d have thought of some kind of strategy – that I must not be required to read any question second time. Most students waste time in multiple readings of questions in CAT, instead I would focus on complete comprehension the first time I read a question – Though this has been my style for many years, nevertheless. Secondly I would ensure that I read all the questions in allotted 50 minutes to the section. Also I have decided to fix a time limit for 1 mark questions depending upon the number of 1 mark questions. When we do not fix time limit as such, we end up spending lot of time on 1 mark questions which do not offer a good trade-off. Quants doesn’t worry me much… but still, IIMs can surprise anybody and everybody…
When it comes to DI and Reasoning questions, once again similar time division online of quants section will have to be done. But I must be choosy about the sets that I choose among two marks questions… they can make or break my dream…
Finally, I am not going to take any question or question-set as a challenge to my competency, neither am I going to mismanage my time. Though I understand that I will have to be flexible in my time allocation to various sections… that part I leave to CAT – as in I would vary time depending on how am I moving through the exam…
CAT-06 is gonna be my day...
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