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Ohh!! SKIPPING sounds dangerous………isn’t it!! But believe me guys it is one of the most useful strategy for cracking any tough examination.

… Do not get unduly concerned if you seem to skipping questions. In the first go attempt only those questions that are really really easy (that will take around a minute or less to answer). Though this is generally true across all three sections, it gains greater importance in the quant section. As you go through each question if you encounter a question that you do not know or happens to be difficult, put an X mark next to it, skip it and forget it. If you find a question that you know, but will take 2 or more minutes, put an A next to it, skip it and proceed. Attempt in the 1st round only those that will take about a minute. After exhausting all these easy questions, if you still have time come back for the questions that you have marked an A. This way, your selection of questions follows the rule of attempting the easiest ones first and then the tougher ones. Putting X and A marks next to the question eliminates the necessity to re select questions when you revisit the section.

On an average, students who crack CAT need to get about 50% or lesser of the number of questions in the quant and DI section as their net score. That essentially translates to skipping every other question, provided you can maintain very high levels of accuracy. So, go ahead and skip questions that are difficult. It will be more detrimental to get stuck in a question and spending a lot of time on it than skipping a question that is easy by mistake.

K S Baskar
PGDM - IIM Calcutta - Class of 94

Got Final Call from more than one Instt?

Make sure you visit the institutes and know where you are joining…….

Make sure you are satisfied before you join it. Check their placement records, the infrastructure and facilities they have. Talk to people in the industry about the institute before deciding. Talk to the faculty, current students and the alumni there before making any decision. Sometimes people join an institute with no knowledge about it and later decide to leave it, as it did not meet their expectations. This leads to wastage of time and money. It is better to check everything before joining the institute, so that you know beforehand what to expect from the institute.

IMPORTANCE OF AICTE APPROVAL OF INSTITUTE:

Some private companies may not give importance to AICTE approval but most of the Puss likes to have candidates from AICTE approved institute. Anyway, most of the well reputed institutes have the AICTE approval (Note: We don’t mean all institutes with AICTE approval are well reputed). You must be cautious when spending you time and money. It would be better to grab a job and gain some work experience than to join an institute that does not meet your expectations. You may try again for a better institute next year. In private sector, if you can deliver and prove yourself, you will be accepted. With a MBA from a well reputed institute you are given more chance to prove yourself, but if you fail to do so in the given time you are out. A person with an MBA from not so well institute or even with no MBA if can deliver, will be preferred, though he/she won’t get many chances to prove himself.

Sometimes due to government restrictions on number of seats, some institutes have more than one type of courses. It helps the institutes to optimize the utilization of the resources and the faculty members. Read the course structure, the subjects they are going to teach you in each course, most likely it will be almost the same. It would be better to select the course that has been at the institute for a longer time. Find out how many batches of each course have passed out till now and decide accordingly.

- Gather as much information as you can about the institutes you want to apply for.
- Make a note about deadlines and other important dates.
- Apply before the due date. Don’t wait for the due date.
- Arrange for an information session with the institute.
- Make sure you are eligible as per the institution’s requirement.
- International students please take care of additional formalities like TOEFL score etc.
- If you want to study abroad, check for the visa requirements and have an unexpired passport.
- Try to send the whole application package in one go, i.e. application, recommendations, transcripts, and other documents required.
- Send the official scores on time.
- Provide with an easy contact number and email Id and do check your e-mails regularly.
- Follow up for you application status and make sure that every formality is been taken care of.
- Make sure to keep photocopies of all documents, application forms etc before submitting to institute. You will need them later at the time of interview.
- Read the instruction carefully before picking up the pen. Maintain a calendar and keep record of all applications in an excel file.
- It there is need for financial support talk with your bank or the institution regarding the financial arrangement.

Guessing, like pacing, is more important on the CAT than on any other test you have ever taken. You’ll have to guess often on the CAT because…

1. You can’t skip questions. If you hit a mental block, you have to guess at the question in front of you. You can’t pass over a question and go back to it later. Since all answers are final, you have to make sure your guess is a good one. Most students waste more than 1/3 of their time bogged down on a handful of tough questions. You have to learn how to guess, move on, and cut your losses after spending more than a few minutes on a question.

2. At the end of the test, when time is about to expire, you have to hurry to make sure to review every question or else face the severe penalty for not finishing all the test’s questions. Many students have to do this last-minute sprint and are often left guessing on the last few questions.

P.O.E.

The key guessing strategy is P.O.E (process of elimination). A big asset going into test day is knowing that one of the five possible answers must be right. If you can eliminate two of the choices, you can increase your chances of getting the right answer by 65% (from 20% or 1 in 5 to 33% or 1 in 3). Here’s how to do it:

Eliminate answer choices you know are wrong. Even if you don’t know the right answer, you can often tell that some of the answer choices are wrong. For example, on the Data Sufficiency questions, you can eliminate at least two of the answer choices by determining if one of the statements is true.

Avoid pondering over answer choices that look suspicious. For example, on Sentence Correction questions, beware of any answer choices that look completely different from all of the other choices. In the Quantitative section, you can usually eliminate any answers that are negative when all the other answers are positive.

Once you have narrowed down the list of answer choices, pick one of the remainders. It is a myth that some answer choices, like A or C, are more often correct than other choices.

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