If you want to crack the Common Admission Test, you must not only aim for an overall impressive score, but also crack the minimum cut offs in both sections.Sectional cut-offs are equally important for cracking the Common Admission Test.Gone are the days when your CAT preparation strategy meant studying for your strengths and leaving out the weaker areas.
It is important to have a strategy in place and gain mastery over both sections.
Sandeep Manudhane, Chairman, PT Education says, Make a micro plan splitting your effort into weeks and days. Write down that plan, and stick to it religiously. Remember that a weekly revision across test areas must be a key part of the plan. Do not work on any one test area for too long a stretch. Rotate across areas. It will keep you energised, interested and alive.
Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation
QA & DI is not the compulsory first section to be attempted in the CAT 2014 unlike the previous years.
If you are comfortable enough in this section, you may start with this section.
Since majority of the CAT takers are from engineering background, the section is more or less prepared by the CAT aspirants.The following points will help you prepare better in the days left for your CAT 2014 test day.
Do not leave out important topics
Although it is not possible to prepare for each and every topic that has appeared in the CAT paper over the years, ensure that you do not leave out the important areas or chapters from your scheme of things.
Vinayak Kudva, Head, PG, IMS India explains, Students usually find topics such as Modern Math tough but you must remember that Modern Math questions in the CAT are not always tough nor are Arithmetic questions always easy. Your aim is to maximise your score in all sections, you can do that by solving all the easy questions. With 50 questions to a section, you cannot afford to leave questions out. If you leave out Modern Math entirely, you have narrowed your selection to only the easy questions in Arithmetic and Algebra.
However, there would be some areas, which by now you have realised are not your cup of tea. In that case, focus on your strength areas and leave out the others.
Sohini Deb, an IIM Kozhikode students strategy will give you an idea on this. As my Data Interpretation scores were not up to the mark, I made up a strategy to attend only one DI question and other questions from quant section, says Sohini.