Smart Tips to Crack CAT Exam in 2 Months

Some people plan to prepare for the CAT exam years ahead of taking it. They enroll themselves in CAT preparation courses through face to face coaching or online. So, you may be asking if, with all the pressures of managing day to day life, including perhaps a full time work load, it be possible to prepare for the CAT exam in two months?

In the last two months you need to focus on two things topic wise revision and Mock tests. With planning, preparation, and the right strategy, you can crack the CAT exam in two months.

Preparation process is to sit down and with a focused and methodical approach, start with an honest analysis of yourself first. What are your strengths? Where are you good at? What are your areas of improvement? Where do you need more time to practice? This analysis can be done by taking up a CAT mock test. Take the test as though you were answering the real one. Take it seriously. And then, when you are done, see the patterns of your results. What key points come up? Are you weak in vocabulary? Do you take more time in reading comprehension? Do you have mastery of quantitative fundamentals? Are you able to complete the mock test by the required time? Do you blank out and get nervous?

Knowing where you stand is a great ground work to knowing how to prepare and be ready in two months. So, you have two months, where do you begin?

You begin with the knowledge that you have on your strong points and weak area. Chart out your performance in each section, into four main quadrants:

1. Good Speed, Good Accuracy. Strategy: Lesser focus. You are already good.
2. Good Speed, Bad Accuracy. Strategy: Look at your practice answers. Where is the mistake happening? Is there a pattern? Assess and improve.
3. Bad Speed, Bad Accuracy. Strategy: Put in the most focus into this section. Work by researching on easy tips and techniques to improve the speed and accuracy for these types of questions.
4. Bad Speed, Good Accuracy. Strategy: Practice. Practice hard. Practice more. Practice will improve speed. Get easy strategies on improving and keeping the momentum that are available online.

Be prepared for anything and everything

The uncertainty of pattern is weaking havoc among CAT aspirants. But look at it this way, you are all in the same boat. So rather than preparing based on pattern, prepare for topics. There could be an imbalance in number of questions being divided among sections. But as long as you are equally good in all, it will not make a differnce.

Divide your time among the two major sections and four sub sections wisely. If you are exceptionally good in one, give it a littile lesser time and try to improve the areas you are not so good at. You do not want to lose precious marks in any section.

Go back to the basics

The USp of CAT or any MBA entrance exam is that it does not involve rocket science. The topics are of basic mathematics and aptitude. Aim of any management entrance exam is to test a candidate's aptitude and problem solving ability.

Preparing for basic English questions in CAT

To justly increase number of questions and to let students solve them in lesser time, there could be rise in questions on basic English. This could include more speech, tense, word formations, phrasal verbs.

Speed and accuracy  - That is all you need to get the perfect score in CAT !

·         Solve questions quickly and correctly.

·         Rather than trying to learn concepts, you can start doing questions from the beginning.

·         Do not spend a long time in just knowing a concept. start practicing its approach in questions.

·         Two months before appearing for CAT exam, you must know which are your weak and strong areas.

·         If you are yet unable to understand the weak topics, do not spend a very long time on them.

·         Start further strengthening your strong areas. Try to solve those questions in lesser time.