With approximately 16 weeks to go for CAT, this article talks about key (and often ignored) strategies and tips/tricks to boost your chances of success significantly. This is especially useful for candidates who are beginning their preparation now or have recently started seriously with their preparation. Vociferous reading outside your comfort zone We are always […]

This is 2 of a 5 part article that I intend to write, to share with you what actually went into scoring a 99.49 percentile in CAT after securing average marks throughout my academic career. Now that you have set a goal for yourself, how do you go along achieving it? You have dreamt big […]

Assumption – Argument – Conclusion map Choose variables and write down the main argument that has been drawn in the passage. It might not be a single argument but an argument map (A leads to B and B leads to C etc.). Once you have carefully analysed and listed down all the arguments carefully read […]

An important part of taking the CAT exam (or for that matter most of the other Indian MBA exams) is to go through all the questions. If you do not time yourself well in the exam you might miss out on some sitters at the end – which might just make the difference between a […]

So how many of us remember the age old saying that started like this “Beta _____ mein mehnat kar lo …aage future secured hai!” Although, fortunately for me, I wasn’t put up to such a situation, I have pretty much heard most of my friends’ parents, relatives etc. using the above quote almost as if […]

Mumbai: A City of Dreams as some may call it. For many others, it’s a city where time runs faster than any other place in the country, where race to survival starts early in the morning with the first blink of your eyes and doesn’t take a halt until late in the night. Your ambitions […]

I have always maintained in my advice to CAT (& GMAT) aspirants that the best way to score well in the exam on the D-day is to know yourself – your strengths and weaknesses, the time taken per question, which questions to attempt at the start and which ones towards the end, which questions to […]

A week of planning, a last rescheduling and finally the day was here when we bid an unofficial goodbye to the 2014 batch of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. Unofficial coz this was a party thrown by the SOM15 batch to SOM14 and you know what I mean when I say “party” […]

1. Miracle: Getting placed at PSU. 2. Honeymoon period: All pay and no work makes Jack a happy boy. 3. Denial: This isn’t happening, I can’t stay here for too long. 4. Anger: What the f**k is this $#!t? I deserve better! 5. Desperation: Appearing for CAT,GATE,IES,IAS,GRE anything & everything! 6. Realization: Failing miserably in […]

You cannot judge a fish’s true ability by asking it to climb a tree. Every candidate who appears for CAT is different – different strengths and weaknesses, different accuracy levels, different comfort zones when it comes to time for practice. Thus, to form a good exam taking strategy each student must have a customised preparation/practice […]