Is Nailing CAT 2025 Possible In 4 Months?

Is Nailing CAT 2025 Possible In 4 Months?

The same question mark revolves around CAT aspirants when they start their CAT preparation journey in July. Feeling lost, behind and full of self-doubt and several negative whirlpools. I am sure if you are reading this, you must be one of the fighters who aspire to crack CAT but lacking confidence and maybe the right strategy to crack CAT.

There is a very famous saying that goes “when you believe, you are halfway there”. So, before discussing strategies, the most important thing is mindset. Believe that you can crack CAT, and let us accompany you in this CAT preparation journey.

How to approach CAT with 125 days in hand.
“A Symmetrical approach”
With fewer days in hand, you need to put in an extra number of hours to balance the preparation journey. It is always advisable to join a coaching program for a structured preparation.

1. Dividing Timelines : you may be a working professional or a college going student, in any case managing time must be a challenge for you. Try to extract time as much as you can and increase the number of preparation hours.

 Bonus Tip: Maximise your weekend hours to 8 or 9 hrs /day

2. Syllabus completion: If you have joined some coaching, then they must be having a preparatory phase routine but if you are preparing on your own, try to finish the syllabus in 60 to 70 days roughly.
If you are totally unaware of the syllabus, it is mandatory to go through some past year papers to become familiar with the structure and paper pattern of the exam.

3. Practice : Practicing tons of quality questions, becoming familiar with each and every variety whether it is Genre of the RC, a DI set or a algebra question. This ensures the single most important aspect of preparation ; Confidence.
Bonus: Give lots of tests regardless of the scores you are getting.

4. Balancing the sections : It is as important as solving an RC as it is doing math and a puzzle. Your preparation should include this balanced approach of taking all the three sections( Quant, DILR, VARC) on the same page.
You can take two at a time on weekdays and all three on weekends to ensure symmetry.

5. Mocks and Analysis: Last but not least, taking mocks and sectionals and analysing them will help you to build stamina to sit in a 2-hour long paper, realising your mistakes and balancing your attempts and accuracy ratio to ace CAT.
Don’t directly jump to solutions, spend some time with questions this helps you in improving logic.
If I Sum up these pointers I draw upon you 3-Cs of CAT

1. Commitment
2. Consistency
3. Confidence

Hope it helps!!
Happy Reading

Shubh