SIM CAT-ONE-ANALYSIS

Dear All,

I hope many of you had done well and will get much more than 25 (the minimum target given by me during the SIMCAT-1 examination).Let's understand & analyse the paper,however this is my personal opinion,others may differ.I had identified some of the sitters attempting which you could have scored well,that too in a shorter span of time.

SECTION-ONE:

1,2,3,4,11,13 are the easiest.One will take maxium 12-15 minutes to solve these 6 questions.This can fetch you 8 marks comfortably with an ease.

Learnings:-Identifying the right kind of questions, is an important task.

SECTION-TWO:

31,32,33,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48 ,49,50,51,52 are easily solvable if you are comfortable in grammar,vocabs & english usage.You can accumulate 28 marks into your scorebag.These 16 questions shouldn't take more than 25-30 minutes.

Learnings:-Reading habit,vocabulary & english usage mastery can put youat the zenith.

SECTION-THREE:

I am pathetic in DI.However 61,62,63,67,68,69,70,87,88,89,90 should be tried out.One can score 14 marks.These questions may take 30-35minutes.In my opinion,in such kind of paper, the cut-offs for 6 IIMs will be:-Problem Solving:-15-18,Verbal Ability & RC:-21-25 & DI/LR/DS:-16-18

Identifying these few questions, one can easily score PS-8,VA-18-20 &DI/LR-10-12.that means a score of 30-35 is attainable.

Anyway,others may differ in their opinion...

Wishing you all the best for the second SIM-CAT-2 in advance.

Warm regards,

MANAS NAYAK

CENTRE MANAGER

IMS-MASTERCANTEEN

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SIMCAT-A CURTAIN RAISER

Dear All!!

After a long time,got some time to write a short mail to you.Please remember, CAT expects you to be excellent at some,good at someand bad at none.Thus the "mantra" to deal with the changing CAT isBRMs.Try to finish off the BRMs by 20th Aug,06.

This should be the approach to SIMCATs according to me...

The first three SIMCATs are for experimentation.You can adopt different strategies and find out your comfort zone and tune yourself to that.

Fourth SIMCAT will be to stick to one single strategy and enhancing your total number of attempts.

Fifth & Sixth one is to be accurate and minimising silly mistakes.

Seventh one is test of your consistency and the objective need to maintain the same score range and not repeating the mistakes.

8th and the last one should be enhancing your range of score by 2-5marks and clearing the sectional cut-offs also while taking care of your attempts & accuracy.Try to get the extra edge here and hiking your score from the previous one by scoring 2-5 marks from your area of weakness.That means if you have sitters from permutation,combination (assuming them not being your cup of tea),still scoring from the direct questions of this chapters is the key to success.

My sincere advice/request to all of you...consider CAT as the 9th SIMCAT of IMS.God bless & all the best.Hope the future managers will do well on the way to premier B-Schoolsof India.

Warm regards,
Manas Nayak
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