CAT 2024 exam is only two days away. All the preparation must be over by now, and candidates must be preparing for the exam day. Here are some last minute tips to optimize your CAT 2024 score.
CAT 2024 last minute tips
What should you do in the last few minutes before the CAT 2024 exam. Candidates who have got morning slot, can’t do much but wake up early and reach their test centre by 7 am on November 24, 2024. They will have to do last minute revision a night before. But candidates who have got afternoon and forenoon shift can do some las minute preparation. Here are a few CAT 2024 last minute tips to score high.
CAT 2024: Last Minute Tips to Score High
No New Topic: There is no time for a new topic anymore. Revise and work on topics you’ve already studied. Starting a new topic will be waste of time now.
Revision with Short Notes: Take out the short notes you made during CAT 2024 preparation. These short notes will help you in memorizing and revising key points related to CAT topics and concepts.
Official CAT Mock Test: You can go through the official CAT mock test 2024 to know the test navigation system and exam guidelines. Knowing these before the exam will be helpful.
Analyse Your Strong Areas: Basis your CAT preparation so far, analyse which are your strong areas viz. the CAT syllabus. Are your strong areas same as the one from which most questions are asked? If not, go through the concepts and theorems one last time.
Remember Your Weak Areas: Recall the topics that you couldn’t master. Check out previous year's CAT question paper to know their weightage in the exam. Steer clear of questions from those topics in CAT 2024 to avoid wastage of time or negative marking.
Determine the Number of Questions to Target: CAT is time bound test and candidates cannot answer all the questions. So, don’t even try that. Determine the number of questions you wish to solve in every section of the CAT 2024 so that you achieve the score of your target B-School. You can attempt more questions, if time permits.
Stay Confident: Overall, the CAT exam is not only the test of aptitude, but also of how to handle pressure. So, whatever be the CAT 2024 question paper be like, stay calm and composed for the exam. Don’t be nervous about topics you couldn’t cover; be confident about the topics you have covered. Moreover, VARC is the first section of the CAT and RC passages are usually dense and confusing so you have to keep your mind calm to be able to crack them. A good start leads to a good end.
CAT is a speed based test of analytical aptitude, logical reasoning skills, data interpretation and English comprehension. Now, it may sound tough, but these are the skills which we are taught in school so there is nothing new to learn. What is required is to learn these subjects at advanced level. If you are an average student but have studied Science or commerce in Class-12 and graduation, you will find a lot of familiar topics in Data Interpretation, Quantitative Aptitude and Logical Reasoning. All you will need is brush up the basics and practice the concepts on advance level problems.
However, since the competition is so high in CAT and less than 95 percentile can break your dream of joining a top college like IIM, the preparation for CAT requires a lot of focus, dedication, discipline and diligence. If you can do that, despite being an average student, you can crack the CAT exam.
All the best for CAT 2024!
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Yes, CAT syllabus is difficult to crack if you do not have enough time. There are three subjects in CAT- VARC, DILR and Quantitative Aptitude. Most of the candidates find RC passages tough to crack. In Quants, Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry pose significant challenge during preparation. In DILR, Reasoning questions often turnout to be tricky and confusion.