Two Months to CAT 2025: Attempting These Many Mock Tests will Optimise Your Score
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Two months before the CAT exam is a crucial phase which requires action on key fronts. For most of the candidates, the last two months of CAT preparation is make or break time. As you enter in the second phase of CAT 2025 preparation, you should be done with conceptual clarity in all three subjects - Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning and Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension. The 60 days should be dedicated to application and practice.
Since there is no change in the CAT exam pattern this year, your mock test practice strategy should not change either. The CAT 2025 exam will be of 120 minutes and for each section there will be a sectional time-limit of 40 minutes. So, to be able to utilise every minute of those two hours, practice the time-bound online mock tests prepared as per the pattern of CAT 2025 exam.
- CAT Mock Tests and CAT Preparation in 60 Days
- How to use a CAT Mock Test Series?
- CAT Preparation 2025: How to Manage Time?
- CAT Preparation 2025: How to improve Accuracy?
- CAT Preparation 2025: How to improve Speed?
- CAT Preparation 2024: How to Make Reading Comprehension Stronger?
- How to Manage Form Filling of Various MBA Exams and Colleges?
- How to Manage Other MBA Exams?
CAT Mock Tests and CAT Preparation in 60 Days
CAT preparation in the last 60 days should be based on level of conceptual clarity of all the topics and the percentage of CAT 2025 syllabus covered. When we say what you should do in the last 2 months before CAT, we go with the following assumptions:
- You have already finished the basic study material of all four areas of aptitude
- You have started CAT Mock Test Series
- You have the knowledge of format of CAT 2025 including, number of sections, number of questions asked in history, time duration, colleges accepting their scores
Commonly asked questions
Candidates should practice CAT mock test during the day. Once, CAT admit card is released, they should practice CAT mocks at the same time as their exam slot. This will help them align their mind and body to 2 hours of rigorous test so that they can utilize their time in the CAT exam well. For example, CAT exam starts are early as 8:30 am. So, those who are not used to studying early morning will face difficulty in performing optimally if they get morning slot.
CAT exam has sectional time limit of 40 minutes per section and as soon as the time gets over, the test screen moves to the new section. So, it is very important that a candidate uses 40 minutes to attempt the questions correctly and optimally. RC passages are long and dense. Sometimes, DI or LR questions turn out to be lengthy, Quants questions are often time taking. By practicing sectional mock tests, candidate will get the practice of how to manage 40 minutes irrespective of the type of question.
How to use a CAT Mock Test Series?
You are advised to write approximately 20 mock CAT papers in two months. Good percentiles are the outcome of aptitude skills and testing skills. 20 Mock CAT papers will help you optimize your score with the knowledge you have acquired. Spend one hour in analysis/introspection of learning from the test.
Every CAT mock test will help you understand your weak areas of aptitude and possible improvement in testing skills. Moreover, 20 should be a sufficient number of CAT mocks to develop appropriate stamina required to make best use of last two sections of the paper, as well.
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CAT Preparation 2025: How to Manage Time?
If you are a working professional, you need to plan your days, leaves and breaks in advance. It’s advisable to finish a CAT mock test before you leave for office. You can analyse it after coming back or on the next morning. Waking up early would get you some extra hours in your day.
Plan your leaves wisely. Plan your holidays of Dussehra and Diwali. Plan your weekends. Plan your office leaves available. Clubbing them with any other holiday will give you a good number of consecutive days which should be helpful to finish a sizable work load.
Commonly asked questions
No, it is not wise to attempt a CAT mock test, just before the exam. Candidates must practice only one CAT mock test just before the exam; not to check his control over topics but to keep the confidence of time management high. Any candidate who has practiced a good number of mock tests will be able to score 98-99 percentile by the last week of the CAT exam, so they need to just go with the same confidence.
IIM does not conduct official CAT mock tests for candidates, but it does release a mock guide which can be viewed as official CAT mock test. It is essentially a walk through of what the CAT test form will be for that year. It has section wise questions marking scheme, time limit, etc. just like the actual CAT exam. Candidates must use take the official CAT mock test at least once before the exam.
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CAT Preparation 2025: How to improve Accuracy?
Sincerely finishing all questions of all CAT mock tests would help. Also plan to revise areas which need attention. If you follow the 20-mocks plan, 40 out of 60 days you will not have CAT mock tests to practice. These days can be used for working on weak areas.
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CAT Preparation 2025: How to improve Speed?
If accuracy is always the first target to be achieved while preparing for the MBA entrance exams, speed is the second. The continuous trade off between the two is experienced by all the aspirants. Practice of standard variety of questions enables you to solve many of them with minimum rough work. This certainly adds to speed in long run. Moreover, a good number of questions in Quantitative Aptitude are of standard set of varieties. More practice of such varieties increases the number of questions which look familiar while solving a test paper.
Regular practice helps you to develop more comfort with the topics and keep the stamina perfect even towards the end of the test. This ultimately gets you enough fuel to get more attempts and score in the last section.
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CAT Preparation 2024: How to Make Reading Comprehension Stronger?
There is no alternative to Reading in CAT 2025 preparation. 24 per cent of the CAT question paper is made up of Reading Comprehension (RC) questions. It’s highly recommended that you solve RCs for at least an hour on the days you are not practicing mock tests. Find the areas of reading you are uncomfortable with. Read RCs related to such topics to increase comfort with them. Read on a variety of topics regularly. A 100-hour reading till CAT should take care of speed and accuracy in RCs in the actual test paper. Check out RC passages of last 10 years' CAT question papers. Practice those and similar passages.
How to Manage Form Filling of Various MBA Exams and Colleges?
That’s exactly your job in these two months before CAT 2025.
- Keep analyzing your ongoing performance of Mock CATs. Envision where you can reach in two months.
- Do basic research of colleges available through various MBA entrance exams and their cut offs
- Depending on your probable range of percentiles, your interest of specialization and the cut offs of the colleges, prepare a list of MBA colleges and exams you should apply for
- Manage a diary or an excel sheet of application deadlines of all these MBA colleges and entrance exams
- Fill application forms of those MBA entrance exams before the deadline
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How to Manage Other MBA Exams?
CAT kickstarts the MBA exam season. It is followed by SNAP, NMAT, IBSAT, MAT, XAT and CMAT. All of these exams are speed tests but have slightly different marking scheme and questions from CAT. It’s advisable that your planning includes writing at least three to four mock tests of each of these exams before taking them.
Overall, these two months would be the game changer. If you started late, going aggressive is the only option now. If you are on track, ensure that you don’t lose momentum for a single week.
All the Best..!!
About the Author
Parasharan Chari is an alumnus of SP Jain and is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at a popular MBA coaching institute
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Students who get valid results in any of the above exams are eligible to apply to ISBR, after they have cleared the eligibility
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You don't strictly need CAT to get into GIBS Business School. They accept both CAT and MAT scores, but even if you haven't appeared for them, you can still get admission through their direct admission or interview process.
CAT → accepted, helps in selection
MAT → also accepted, gives another option
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Candidates should practice at least past 10 years' CAT question papers to have a good control over the exam. Many times, questions are repeated so prior practice will be helpful. CAT question papers are also best source of RC passages.
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