Overall Score: 98.95 | Overall Percentile: 99.11
VARC | Score: 42.48 | Percentile: 98.46
DILR | Score: 18.30 | Percentile: 87.34
Quants | Score: 38.17 | Percentile: 99.36
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Q) Please Share Your Journey In Achieving 99.11%ile in CAT 2021.
My 2 years journey was amazing. I took a few tough decisions in my life during the past 2 years. Each decision made me confident and gave me clarity about the life I wish for myself. I decided to take CAT’20 and prepared hard. On the day of the exam, my PC got hung for the first 10 min in the verbal section and I couldn’t manage that pressure as I had never thought such a thing would happen. I focused on the number of questions in the remaining time instead of keeping calm and focusing on accuracy and scored a mere 53 percentile in the verbal section. I was really sad and thought all the efforts were in vain. I had a campus placement offer from a reputed listed construction company, but I decided not to join the firm as I had got clarity regarding the things I enjoy most and want in life.
It was clear I was more inclined towards the business aspect of things and decided not to join the company. I focused on preparing for CAT’21 but this time around I focused more on the accuracy and basic concept building. The result said it all as I had just one negative mark on the entire CAT'21 paper. I didn't have this high accuracy in any mock that I had taken. But my calm composure on the D-Day helped me achieve it.
I feel I became even more patient in this entire journey, it shaped me to manage pressure situations better, I learned that efforts don’t go in vain if you are enthusiastic about your goal. I also realized that clarity in any aspect helps you reach places that you would have never thought were possible to reach.
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Q) Please Share Your Month-Wise Preparation Insights For Upcoming Aspirants.
I started preparing for CAT'21 in June 2021. I had not joined a coaching class as I had already done coaching for CAT'20 from Genesis Mentors Pune. I joined the Quantifiers Booster Course for revision in September 2021. I started my preparation by solving the Quants material. I started solving 1 sudoku, and 2 DILR sets (from Quantifiers DILR book and Elites grid YouTube videos) and solved Cracku daily targets consistently every day.
Verbal ability was my weakest link and I read as much as I could every day for 40-45 minutes from Aeon essays, Al daily, Bharat's reading list, etc. I saw the greatest improvement in my verbal score after reading the Critical reasoning bible for GMAT which is a gem of a resource. My major focus from August was on mocks and mock analysis.
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Q) Please Share The Section-Wise Strategies Followed By You During Preparation.
Sectional tests are crucial. I did take more sectionals for DILR and VARC. I gave 1.5-2 hours per section each day. My entire strategy was focused on accuracy in all the sections and in all the sectionals/mocks taken.
Q) Please Talk About The Role Of Mock Tests While Preparing.
Mocks did make me exam ready. I had enrolled for the IMS, TIME, and Cracku test series. I gave around 40 mocks from July to November. I made a detailed excel sheet for the initial 15 mocks to improve my question selection and understand my strengths and weaknesses.
I used to answer the following questions in the excel sheet:
1) Level of Difficulty according to me.
2) Why did I attempt that question?
3) Why did I get it right/wrong?
4) Time taken to solve and avg time taken by others.
5) Could I solve it later without seeing the solutions?
6) What should I have done? (Attempted in the first round, second round/leave, etc.)
The journey was a roller coaster ride but whenever I felt down, I used to go back to my purpose and how an MBA would help me achieve my dreams and start all over again.
# | Section Name | Test Link |
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1 | VARC | Click here |
2 | DILR | Click here |
3 | QA | Click here |
Comments
Ameya Shah
Inspiring content!
6 Jul 2022, 02.49 PM