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I will suggest to not to depend on the universal strategy and to go for own assessment, we still have 13 days left and you can try different plans(A,B,C) with mocks before the D-DAY,
Sit for a day, try different papers with different strategies and finalize your plan, you will realize the differences as well,
this was suggested to me by my mentor at the time of CAT coaching and it worked too.
P.S.: My mentor also told to write exam in the same shift to sync your stress level(He is from PT-Education).
Two things regarding paper-II from my side (which I didn't see in the blog):
1. If you follow zig-zag approach to the paper, that is attempting the last part first and all, be extra careful in marking the circles. As far as I remember, OMR sheets in both the papers have space to answer 100 questions, and not 100 and 80 (at least in 2011 it was so). I know it sounds stupid but remember to start marking from #80 and not #100, or else you will later wonder how you didn't make the cut despite getting so-and-so as per the key. And yeah, don't even think of marking all the circles together at the end to solve the problem, you will be very panicky towards the end.
2. In Comprehension part, there are 2 kinds of questions: simple and compound. Compound ones are the ones with 3 or 4 statements and then options like: a. Only 1 b. Only 2&3 c. 2 and 4 d. All Simple ones have 4 statements which serve as options too.
Try solving last year's paper with the official key, and you will see that the your returns will be very different in simple and compound questions. Out of 32 comprehension-based questions (not counting the no-translation part towards the end), 14 were compound and 18 were simple. But you will probably get more compound ones wrong. The reason is straightforward- while in simple ones you have to merely identify the correct one, in compound ones you have to correctly analyze all the statements and get all four right, hence the probability of a mistake goes up.
So, be extra careful in compound ones, you are better off taking the risk in the simple ones. Unnecessary risk-taking in compound ones, when you have definite doubt in one of the statements, can pull down your score you have built in the scoring parts.
PS: Paper breakdown used in the analysis- [Comprehension-based: 32, Quant/Reasoning/DI: 33, No-translation: 8, Decision-making:7]
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I will suggest to not to depend on the universal strategy and to go for own assessment, we still have 13 days left and you can try different plans(A,B,C) with mocks before the D-DAY,
Sit for a day, try different papers with different strategies and finalize your plan, you will realize the differences as well,
this was suggested to me by my mentor at the time of CAT coaching and it worked too.
P.S.: My mentor also told to write exam in the same shift to sync your stress level(He is from PT-Education).
1. If you follow zig-zag approach to the paper, that is attempting the last part first and all, be extra careful in marking the circles. As far as I remember, OMR sheets in both the papers have space to answer 100 questions, and not 100 and 80 (at least in 2011 it was so). I know it sounds stupid but remember to start marking from #80 and not #100, or else you will later wonder how you didn't make the cut despite getting so-and-so as per the key.
And yeah, don't even think of marking all the circles together at the end to solve the problem, you will be very panicky towards the end.
2. In Comprehension part, there are 2 kinds of questions: simple and compound. Compound ones are the ones with 3 or 4 statements and then options like: a. Only 1 b. Only 2&3 c. 2 and 4 d. All
Simple ones have 4 statements which serve as options too.
Try solving last year's paper with the official key, and you will see that the your returns will be very different in simple and compound questions. Out of 32 comprehension-based questions (not counting the no-translation part towards the end), 14 were compound and 18 were simple. But you will probably get more compound ones wrong. The reason is straightforward- while in simple ones you have to merely identify the correct one, in compound ones you have to correctly analyze all the statements and get all four right, hence the probability of a mistake goes up.
So, be extra careful in compound ones, you are better off taking the risk in the simple ones. Unnecessary risk-taking in compound ones, when you have definite doubt in one of the statements, can pull down your score you have built in the scoring parts.
PS: Paper breakdown used in the analysis- [Comprehension-based: 32, Quant/Reasoning/DI: 33, No-translation: 8, Decision-making:7]
If yes..plz share if any pdfs or any pinks or anything that is tgere..
Thanx in advance =D>
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0ByZddIiTbiBCQkMzYkZVLUNtNVU/edit?pli=1
Do you have mocktest 9 and 10 papers?