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Hi guys,
Preparing for a CAT exam is a huge step and whether you are a working professional or otherwise; it takes a lot of hard work and planning.
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Preparing for CAT can be hard in itself. For those starting out in September, it’s even harder since you are short of preparation time. At times like these, our basic instinct is to put our head down to put in the hard yards without taking a step back and thinking about the action plan. However, in order to achieve the right results, you need to possess the right strategy.
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- Buy or get a copy of previous year question papers if possible with solutions. Having a hard copy is very important and we are going to refer it again and again during whole preparation.
- Refer to syllabus and analyze the number of questions asked in each subject. As all subjects don’t have equal marks, few subjects are preferred over others. I mean few subject may have more questions asked in exam than others. I don’t have this subject break up for cat. If you have done this exercise, please share with us to share with many other students and also we can have a discussion over its validity.
- Make a priority list of subjects based on marks or preference given it in previous exams. Marks distribution of subject will help you prioritize and allocate preparation time to different subjects. If distribution is not prepared we usually end up in a random preparation and finally will have tough time dealing with important subjects.
Just for example, in cat CS and IT paper, around 15~20% is from Mathematics, and then Programming and Data Structures, Theory of computation, OS and digital logic.
- Allocate realistic time for each subject. And read it all, as there is huge to cover and it’s easy to ask few marks question from anywhere in a subject.
- Finish through reading of a chapter of subject, make short notes of important points, this will help you at last moment to revise what you have read.
- Once finish a chapter, go back to cat Question papers and solve the problems from that chapter. These days there lots of question banks available in market for cat do buy one and practice. Also to try to get Test Series from other friends. Solve all of them. This will help you to assess yourself for level of understanding of the chapter you read. Use a single note book for question answer solution because you may refer it while revising.
- Finish detailed reading at least one and half month before. Keep one month for revisions and clearing leftover doubts. Have a look of question you solved during preparation for cat and remember how you solved them.
- Keep last 15 days for fast practice and revision. Solve as many papers and question banks as you can get from any source.
- Keep documents related to cat like, acknowledgment of application, like hall tickets, application number and other details, in a safe place. Give it to mom or someone responsible, who can give that back to you when you need them. This is to avoid last minute tension for obvious things.
I hope these points will help many of to take a start off. Please don’t waste time and take a start. The one who start early and work consistently reach early and hope see IITs for M.Tech. cat is a simple exam just needs constant effort to crack it. Don’t worry about competition by number of candidates appearing for cat, make highest marks as your competition.
