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I have been a student who struggled to speak English right from an early age, being from a small town it didn’t matter until I went for my undergrads and decided to sit for CAT. My confidence was at an all-time low when I ended up scoring a meager 63 percentile in the VARC section in my first CAT attempt. The options were simple, either give up your dream if studying in a school or take up the challenge. I decided to do the former. In the next few years that followed, I started to read whenever I got some time from my hectic work schedule at one of the IT majors of the country. The first novel I read was at the age of 22; it took me three weeks to complete it.
In the year that followed, I read 23 books, mostly fiction. Then I shifted my focus to non-fiction making sure that I cover each genre, as CAT tests your comprehension skills and knowing a little about a lot of things was an important skill in the management domain in general. I developed a habit of reading books on my commute from my place to the office, which took around an hour. This was 2 hours every day. The books not only help me improve my vocabulary but added to my knowledge as well, reading about subjects like economics, public policy, art, history, anthropology, design, business gave new dimensions to my thought process.
By the time I was 25, I had already read 100 books. The objective because of which I began reading was also fulfilled that year as I scored a whopping 99.9+ percentile in the VARC section of CAT 2017.
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