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I Didnot read any philosophy books, novels for “Reading Comprehension” practice. (there is hardly any time left to breath, let alone browse through Alchemist and similar stuff) I Didnot prepare any dictionary / list for vocabulary. I Didnot try any method for ‘speed-reading’. Had totally bogus AIMCAT scores 6, 9 etc, never did ‘post-analysis’ of questions and later stopped giving them altogether, as they were wasting my time and hurting my confidence. Skipped trigonometry, coordinate geometry, games n tournaments and any topic that I couldn’t grasp on first two tries or anything that wouldnot go in my long term memory. Didnot do much arithmatic series and logarithm. because most of them would require application of some special ‘magic-move’, which won’t go my long term memory. Am still confused about Chinese remainder theorem. Skipped most of Pagalguy quant/LR threads & discussions. (Well most of their sums go above my head anyways.) Can’t do much speed-maths or mental calculation of percentages for DI/Quant. Can’t solve most quant-problems without filling up half page+ calculation: Was scolded many times by the coach that I use pen ‘too-much’ for CAT s tandards. Don’t know squares upto 50. Can remember multiplication table upto 25, but 13,14,17,18,19,23 still give nightmares.
But I did
I did solve Arun Sharma’s book on Quantitive Aptitude (TMH publication) (done twice) I did solve and Sarvesh Kumar’s Quantam CAT (Arihant Publication) (done twice) I did solve Demystifying Number System by Nishit K Sinha (PearsonPublication). (done twice) I did read Word power made easy by Norman Louis (not done twice, only once.) I did all questions from booklets & handouts given from the coaching class (done twice). Please note: IF you’re not a student of TIME coaching class, you can still get their study material at a very convinient price from Flipkart. Here is the link: http://www.flipkart.com/author/time I noted down the methods of solving questions (weight-misuse by shopkeeper, allegation etc) from them and kept revising the ‘moves’. Last 15 days before exam: only did online sectional tests @TIME website. (not Aimcats). Even in those online sectional-tests, I would get Quant/DI/sentence correction answers incorrect most of the time, but it taught me the hard way about : which questions to attempt and what to skip altogether because youget in wrong everytime (sentence correction in my case) and which questions take too much time to solve (LR sitting arrangement, DI graphs in my case). Also whenever and wherever I solved any question (be it maths or english grammaer), If I made mistake or had trouble solving it, then I would note it down in my “diary of mistakes for future revision. Similarly I would note down the difficult words I came across during daily-newspaper reading and find their meaning using a free software called “Wordweb” – and noted down those meanings in a diary. Total 3 full-scape notebooks filled up in this exercise. 2 for maths, 1 for English grammar & vocabulary. Kept revising it in last days.
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My CAT result Score card
Finally My CAT-2011 result I got overall 96.00 percentile : Attempt 44/60 QA: 90.41 : Attempt 17/30 VA: 97.05 : Attempt 27/30 Anyways 96 percentile feels good only for a few days – bragging in front of friends and relatives, otherwise 96 is as bogus as 55 percentile – can’t get you admission / interview call in any big IIMs. (Especially when you don’t have those fancy paper certificates to prove work-ex and extra-curricular activities and no good marks in 10, th 12and college and GDPI turns into a fish market.) So try to work harder than I did. My articles “Aptitude Made Easy without Formulas” can be accessed by clicking ME All the best on to all CAT aspirants of 2012.
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RAHUL Z Reply to this comment Hi Mrunal I intend to appear for CAT 2013 and haven’t started preparation as yet. I am currently working and want to prepare at home without coaching. I appeared for CAT in 2009 and didn’t fare too well. I want to know if using reference books like arun sharma will be enough for cracking the CAT as i don’t have any coaching material like IME,CL etc. Kindly let me know exactly which books shall I buy to prepare for each section throughly. Again do these books guide us in solving certain questions faster using common sense and not just learning formulae. I really want to crack CAT and get into IIM’s. Kindly guide me as to how to prepare while working.
shubh mission cat 2013 Reply to this comment Hello mrunal can you please tell me how were you able to complete the whole time material twice as they provide advanced material also along with tpb’s and handouts and also complete arun sharma and sarvesh verma twice please tell me i will give cat in 2013 and iam starting my preparation during may plz reply asap
Mrunal Reply to this comment In those months, I would go out of home only to attend class. Otherwise from morning to night I only solved questions. Even at home, No facebook, no movies, no random surfing on internet.
RAHUL Z Reply to this comment Mrunal kindly reply to my comment above
shubh mission cat 2013 Reply to this comment Thanks for the guidance
ansuya Reply to this comment which books are best for preparing LR and english for CAT 2013
Praveen Reply to this comment Dear Sir, This is Praveen from Bangalore. I want to give a shot at CAT 2013 and I am about to start rigorous preparation from 1st June, 2013. I am pretty weak in Quants, especially with managing time. I am pretty confident in Verbal because my passion is creative writing (Have written a few poems and some shorts stories not published). The problem with my preparation is that, I am working and on a daily basis reach home by 8PM after starting in the morning at 6AM. So, given this I may have only 2 – 2.5 Hours of time on a daily basis for my preparation. On a brighter note, I have the weekends completely to myself. I ensure to completely dedicate this for my preparation. Will this preparation be sufficient. PLEASE SUGGEST!!!…I believe your comments can really instill hope and confidence in me. I do understand that I have very little time left. Please make your comments. Thanks & Regards, mrunal.org/2012/07/studyplan-cat.html
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Reply to this comment I guess if you start now , that much time daily is more than enough. Try to steal around 15-16 hours on weekends out of 48hrs for studying. That will easily do. Been there, done that. #92.77%iler 2011.
Praveen Reply to this comment Thanks a lot for your encouraging words. I have indeed started preparing for CAT with study material from IMS. Is this really material really sufficient to crack CAT? I will try my best to conquer all the questions in the material. With this, will I have a chance to transcend the 90+ percentile barrier in CAT 2013? Please post your reply as soon as possible, as it can help my preparation significantly. Eagerly, awaiting your reply. Thanks & Regards, Praveen
Reply to this comment If u revise them for 4-5 times i guess its sufficient. But I would suggest you to buy either Arun sharma or Sarvesh Verma. These two books are like Bible for the Quants section. The solved examples given in IMS are good but the unsolved ones are basically copy paste from the above two books.
Rahul Reply to this comment Hey Mrunal , I just want your suggestion that i m solving quant from TIME material. So tell me two thing one-Is that material is sufficient?? another the level of TIME material is equal to CAT or somewhat tough, coz i m not able to solve more than 30 % of question without seeing the solution.
Reply to this comment Level of Cat is way far lower than TIME material. Its just that you will start doing those 70% wuestions,when u revise it for the 2nd -3rd time. Out of 18 odd questions of quants – 6-7 will be tough . If you do them , ofcourse after doing the easy ones, your rank will shoot up. You will shoot this question again when you give AIMCATS. :D
Bhagyashree Reply to this comment Respected Sir, Please suggest some good books for GK for CMAT,XAT,SNAP,Nmat,IIFT etc other competitive exams
shambhawi Reply to this comment Hi everyone, I am looking for Career Launcher material for cat 2013. can anyone help me in this regard?
aMiT Reply to this comment I have the CL study mat but its from Last year…….if u r interested i can give a good deal.Reply me through this thread.
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rANJITHA Reply to this comment hi amit , i need the CL material.Can u provide me details ?
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venkat raghavan Reply to this comment sir, can u pls suggest me books for english grammar questions for cat. and also for bank exams pls… also give us some tips or ur notes regarding sentence correction… as soon as possible… ur guidelines are very very helpful to me and ma friends also .:-) really very thank u for all
himanshu Reply to this comment Hi Mrunal, could you please suggest me where to download full sarvesh k verma’s wuantum cat from?
Harsha Reply to this comment Hi sir, As there is only 4 months time for cat, Which book is better for QA? Arun sharma or Sarvesh verma?
pulkit dahiya Reply to this comment dont worry at all ,currently i am 15 year old and want to get admission in top iim insitutes ,trust your abilities and move on to crack cat ( train yourself like a dog as dog can tackle a cat efficiently
Mak Reply to this comment Hi Mrunal. You are doing a great work man, keep it up. One suggestion I have for you. why don’t you use RTI to get previous year CAT papers and their official solution. As in GMAT, official guide clearly explain what kind of thinking is expected by the person giving examination. No matter how much the Coaching classes tries to produce solution for the question paper, the official solutions would be far far authentic. Specially in case of Reading Comprehension questions.
RAHUL Z Reply to this comment hey is it necessary to solve all questions of all exercises from sarvesh kumar verma. I find geometry to be really boring and although have finished introductory exercises and did only few questions from level 1 & 2 but i got bored and geometry happens to be my weak area. How to ace geometry Please reply
AM15 Reply to this comment Hello Mrunal I am doing self study .Solving Arun Sharma and Sarvesh kumar parallely. I wanted to ask it there is no need to enroll for any mock tests in the market.please also tell me where to do the verbal part from, that too from Arun Sharma? VA part is confusing
Shashank lucknowee Reply to this comment MOCK TEST’s are probably the MOST important part in one’s prep dude…It will let you know where you stand among serious aspirants and what strategy would suit you the best in the real exam….CL test series is probably the closest to actual CAT mrunal.org/2012/07/studyplan-cat.html
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paper….Aimcat is a notch higher in difficulty level & Simcat’s VA section is the best !! Choose any 1 or two but do follow any one of these religiously …!!! For verbal part solve 1000 rc question set.You can easily find them on NET.& for VOCAB download GRE big book word list & learn as many words as you can…. & last but the MOST IMPORTANT part HOPE that after all the hard work you have put in NORMALIZATION doesn’t spoil your party in the end or IIM’s doesn’t come up with another bizarre criterion that only people above 95 percent in X/XII/graduation will be shortlisted :P All the best !!
Mrunal Reply to this comment for maths, you’re on right track for VA, I had used Wordpower made easy by Norman Lewis. TIME’s booklet for grammar rules and handouts for practice. you can also try Pagalguy forum’s threads for sentence arrangement and comprehension.
Amit ranjan Reply to this comment Sir, i’m very thnkful 2 u fr d cntributn ur doing through ur website. I owe a lot. I’m prparng fr cat n my quant is so poor. Oneday,i cam across dis website n since tht tim it has changed my attitude towrds cat prepratn. Ur quant sectn is extrmly helpful. Sir, i want 2 knw how u improved ur va section espcaly RC, error finding(grammar) bcz this is d where i’m lackng rit nw. I hv wrd pwr made easy. It is indeed best book fr vocab. Reply me asap sir Thnx
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Reply to this comment sir i am not able to read many books and newspapers.. please guide me how to read them and what actually to grasp from them while reading….. and sir vocab to itni saari hai sumtyms i get a feeling ki kitne words yaad kare .. iska bhi koi solution please bata do …?? thanks a lot
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deepak Reply to this comment hello mrunal sir , i want to know if coaching is necessary for cat preparation , i am doing desk job , and i am not in touch with studies from one year a , i am very much frustated nowadays, please help me ,, how should i prepare , i gave ssc cgl and my marks will be around cutoff , do i have a chance that i could go through mains. i will be very thankful to you if you can give me 5 min time to answer me. regards, deepak
Praveen Reply to this comment Dear Sir, Thanks for posting your reply on my question. I have started preparing for CAT with study material from IMS. Is this really sufficient to crack CAT. I will try my best to conquer all the questions in the material. With this will I have a chance to transcend the 90+ percentile barrier in CAT 2013. Please post your reply as soon as possible, as it can help my preparation significantly. Eagerly, awaiting your reply. Thanks & Regards, Praveen
deepak Reply to this comment hello sir please reply to my question , also i want to ask i am from obc category , and my 10th marks are 76%,12 marks are 68%,btech marks are 65.32 %, how much minimum %tile should i have to get in to iims or fms..?????????
swagat Reply to this comment really nice of u man to share such experience…opened up many bottlenecks i had in ind regarding CAT..thanx a lot…
gaurav Reply to this comment hi, there are four important books: 1.VA+RC – Arun Sharma – TMH. 2.LR – Arun Sharma – TMH. 3.DI – Arun Sharma – TMH. 4.A modern approach to Verbal and Non Verbal Reasoning – RS Agarwal – S.Chand. Can you please tell us MINIMUM number of above book to buy keeping in view BOTH set of exams viz. I.Management related CAT MAT XAT etc. II.Govt. sector related SSC, LIC, SBI, IBPS etc.
devanshu Reply to this comment sir in arun sharma it is written that in the same paper of cat 09 the scenario was: 14 attempt 1wrong – 98.3 and 19 attempt 3 wrong – 92.6 how are wrong ans so penalised? i am unable to figure out.
Sashi Reply to this comment Hi, I am Sashi and wants to tell something about the The Gate Academy that it is having the best Gate Mock Test Series.It really helps students in getting success.It is conducted in classroom environment, where a candidate is required to answer by shading OMR Sheets similar to GATE Exam. It consistently provides Rank and Percentile, and will continue till the GATE Exam . It is really very good about THE GATE ACADEMY that it is having different types of mrunal.org/2012/07/studyplan-cat.html
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correspondence Programs .The Gate Academy is having different types correspondence exams like Regular, Advance and premium.The students can go through it as per his/her requirements. Correspondence Learning Program consist of complete GATE syllabus in the form of booklets with theory, solved examples, model tests, formula and questions in various levels of difficulty in all the topics of the syllabus. The material is designed in such that way that it’s proven to be ideal material in-terms of an accurate and efficient preparation for GATE. If you are thinking of GATE,then you must make efforts for it and go through some coaching Programs,because the Diamonds are also need to be polished.As per me THE GATE ACADEMY is having the better class room training Programs. Here the Classroom Training Program is designed for Students who wants to start their preparation early and would like to take the advantage over the others in terms of spending more time on fundamentals of the Subjects. Focused sessions of Concept buildings will orient the students approach towards solving GATE problems in minimal time.
sai kiran Reply to this comment hello mrunal, i am preparing seriously forcat 2013. QUANT- I AM DOING TIME MATERIAL IS IT SUFFICIENT . BUT IN TIME MATERIAL WE ARE NOT GATING BASIC QUESTIONS WHICH WE ARE GETTING IN OUR AIM CATS. SO, I AM UNABLE TO ATTEMPT SIMPLE QUESTIONS ALSO.SO, SHALL I DO EVEN ARUN SHARMA OR SARVESH VARMA. SUGGEST ME 1 BOOK OF THE 2 AS WE HAVE LESS TIME. DI- I HAVE LITTLE FEAR IN THESE I AM UNABLE TO ATTEMPT DI QUESTIVA & LR – I AM PRACTISING TIME MATERIALS . ALSO I AM PREAPRING FOR NMAT SO TELL ME THE BOOKS FOR NMAT ALSO . PLEASE SUGGEST ME IF ANY CHANGES HAVE TO BE MADE IN MY PREPARATION
Anuj Reply to this comment is the paper pattern for english section somewhat same as that of SSC-CGL. please guide how to prepare english section. plzzzzzz
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